Very graphic videos recently appeared on Arabic-language media portraying Islamic jihadis in Syria slaughtering donkeys in order to consume them. The main point made by some of these websites is that the jihadis are hypocrites for (again) violating Islamic law, which bans the eating of domesticated donkeys. In the words of a fatwa, or Islamic […]
Egypt: Christian beaten, nearly blinded in prison for ‘contempt of religion’
An Egyptian human rights organization is calling for a complete investigation of the case of Cyril Shawqi Ghattas, a 29-year-old Coptic Christian man who was imprisoned on the accusation of blasphemy, or “contempt of religion” (against Islam). Among other irregularities, human rights activists say that the Copt was both denied a lawyer, which is illegal, […]
International Muslim Brotherhood wing threatens EU not to recognize Egypt’s new president
The Muslim Brotherhood international wing has reportedly sent a threatening note to several European Union states—including Britain, France, and Germany—demanding that they not recognize Abdel Fateh al-Sisi’s landslide presidential victory in Egypt. An excerpt from the statement follows: There is no legitimacy for a regime [Sisi and post-Morsi government] that has been rejected by its people, […]
New Fatwa Says Husbands Should Abandon Wives to Rapists in Self Interest
Islam permits Muslim husbands to abandon their wives to rapists in order to save their own lives—so says Dr. Yassir al-Burhami, vice president of Egypt’s Salafi party, the nation’s premiere Islamist party since the Muslim Brotherhood was banned. Burhami’s fatwa, or Islamic decree, is not altogether surprising. Earlier the Salafi sheikh said that, although a […]
Egypt: Brotherhood tries to disrupt presidential elections, so far 20 arrested
Egyptian state security have already “arrested 20 rioters belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood” in a number of cities and provinces for trying to disrupt the presidential electoral process hours after polls opened on the first day, including through banditry, as happened in the Sanuras province, or by threatening voters, as happened in the village of Dafnu. In […]
Islam: ‘Appalling and Abhorrent’ in the Eyes of a Blind World?
A few days ago in Sudan, an eight-month pregnant wife and mother was sentenced to death by hanging for refusing to renounce Christ and embrace Islam. According to the LA Times: Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, who has a young son and is married to a Christian from South Sudan, violated Islamic sharia law, the court said. She […]
Nigerian ‘Sex-Slaves’ Disrupt Obama Narrative on Islam
Islamic law permits the possession of concubines, or sex slaves. This has been demonstrated countless times, including through Islamic clerics quoting Islamic scriptures, and through ordinary Muslims, past and present, acting on it. That said, Islamic sanctioned sex-slavery does not perturb the Western world simply because the powers-that-be—specifically academia, media, and government—ignore it, and all […]
U.S. Becomes Chief Enabler of Christian Persecution: Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2014
[Originally published on Gatestone Institute, via RaymondIbrahim.com] Human rights organization Open Doors published its 2014 World Watch List in January, highlighting and ranking the top 50 nations that persecute Christians. The overwhelming majority of countries making the list—and nine of the top ten worst offenders—are Muslim, and include nations from among America’s allies (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait) […]
Egypt: Christian arrested for using home as church
A Coptic Christian man in Egypt has been arrested on complaints from local Muslims that, without a permit, he has converted his home into a church and is supposedly even holding religious rituals. The 55-year-old man, known only by his initial, “BH,” is a laborer in the al-Minya district in Upper Egypt, where Christians are […]
The ongoing abduction of Egypt’s Coptic Christians
The war on Egypt’s Christian Copts and most indigenous inhabitants continues. Most recently, five “unidentified persons” kidnapped yet another Copt at gunpoint, Mr. Marcos, a 52-year-old pharmacy owner in Sohag, Upper Egypt. This scenario of Coptic Christians—men, women, and children—kidnapped and held for ransom has become commonplace in Egypt, especially in the more rural south. […]