A man dressed as Santa Claus in the nation of Jordan has been arrested for “evangelizing” and “inciting sectarian strife” in the Muslim-majority nation. A translation of the Arabic report published December 24 follows: Jordanian authorities have arrested a wanted man, a celebrity known as “Papa Noel” [Santa Claus], as he was distributing presents in […]
Only Muslim Schoolchildren Lives Matter?
[Via FrontPage Magazine] Earlier we looked at “how Western mainstream media enable Islamic terrorism,” specifically by employing an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism to portray such violence as a product of anything and everything—political and historical grievances, “Islamophobia,” individual insanity, poverty and ignorance, territorial disputes—not Islam. Another strategy that […]
Egypt: Christians “pray outdoors in spite of the cold air and coming of Christmas”
“The Copts of Naga’a Rizq, Tahta, had to pray outdoors in spite of the cold air and the coming of Christmas, as the police were unable to protect them from Islamists’ attacks.” Such was the message Dr. Naguib Ghobrail, President of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights, shared on December 14 with the Minister of […]
‘Muslim Reformers’ — Forever Talking the Talk, Never Walking the Walk
[Via FrontPage Magazine] Due to its rarity, it’s always notable whenever a top Islamic leader publicly acknowledges the threat of Islamic radicalism and terror. And yet, such denunciations never seem to go beyond words—and sometimes not even that. Thus, in “An Arab Prince Denounces Islamism,” Daniel Pipes highlights “a remarkable but thus-far unnoticed address on Dec. 5” […]
Europe Should Learn Ethiopia’s ‘Islam Lesson’
[Via Veritas International Enterprise] Yet another Christian church was destroyed by Muslims in Ethiopia—this time by local authorities. Heaven’s Light Church, which served some 100 evangelical Christians, was demolished last November 28. The church had stood and functioned in the Muslim-majority city of Harar for five years. In the days preceding the destruction, officials forcibly […]
Al Azhar refuses to denounce the Islamic State as “un-Islamic”
For all its talk about “combatting radicalism,” Al Azhar University—perhaps Sunni Islam’s most authoritative voice—will not even denounce the Islamic State as “un-Islamic.” When pressed on it, an Al Azhar spokesman, Abbas Showman, recently said: “As an official entity, Al Azhar has never in all its history proclaimed anyone or any organization as un-Islamic …. […]
Islam — Built on the Blood of (Christian Child) Martyrs
[Via FrontPage Magazine] In a recent interview on CBN News, Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” tried to recount the horrific atrocities Christians in Iraq are suffering at the hands of the Islamic State. After explaining how Christian minorities fled Baghdad to Ninevah when Islamic militants began terrorizing them and […]
Upper Egypt: Christian Copts pay 120 million Egyptian pounds in ransom money
According to Mina Thabet, founder of the People’s Initiative Party, cases of Coptic abduction and ransoming against huge sums of money are on the rise in the Minya Governorate of Upper Egypt—proving to be a lucrative “business” for “thugs and terrorists” of the Islamic persuasion in an area that is “at an all-time low and […]
Egypt: Muslim convert to Christianity rots in execution chamber, begins hunger strike
[Via FrontPage Magazine] According to attorney Karam Ghobrial (“Gabriel”), his client, Bishoy Armia Boulous, a Muslim convert to Christianity, remains illegally incarcerated and has “vowed to starve himself to death,” reports MCN. Bishoy, more notoriously known as Mohammed Hegazy, is the first Egyptian ever to try legally to change his religious identity from Muslim to Christian […]
Egypt: Salafi plan to expel Christian Copts
The Islamic State’s expansion has stepped up Salafi aspirations for an Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East—including in Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya—and the expulsion of the Christian populations from their countries of origin. According to the Justice Organization for Development and Human Rights, a Salafi plan exists in Egypt—allegedly backed by the U.S. and certain […]