Blackmail, plain and simple. The Accords are really wired for it, a package deal tying many other conditions into the peace treaty other than an agreement between one state and another, and many conditions are quite open to interpretation, with compliance in the eye of a hostile beholder. “Brotherhood lawmaker: US aid to Cairo ‘assured’,” […]
Egypt: Charges finally filed in army’s massacre of Christians, but…
Not surprisingly, authorities are not holding the army accountable, but are instead leveling retaliatory charges against two Coptic priests for “incitement.” Egypt’s post-revolutionary government is beating Orwell at his own game; one will recall that this was the first large-scale public act of brutality of its kind by the army against its people. The Maspero […]
Egypt: Muslims halt filming of TV show over “indecent” clothing
Wherever Sharia experiences a resurgence, the observable effect is a decrease in tolerance and an increase in harassment. We tried to tell you. “Islamists in Egypt halt filming of TV series,” from Agence France-Presse, February 9: Islamist students halted the filming of an Egyptian television series at Cairo’s Ain Shams University protesting against the “indecent” […]
Egypt: Muslims attempt to purge village near Alexandria of its Christian population
On particularly prominent display here is the use of the Orwellian “reconciliation meetings,” where “reconciliation” depends in practice on Christians’ giving into whatever demands are imposed on them. “Alexandria: forced eviction of 62 Coptic families by the Salafis,” from AsiaNews, February 9: Cairo (AsiaNews / Agencies) – The radical Muslims are trying to empty a […]
Egyptian Presidential Candidate Says No Freedom in Islam
In a recent TV interview, Hazim Abu Ismail, a candidate for Egypt’s presidency with affiliations to both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, made clear that the hijab, or veil for women, would be enforced under his leadership. More importantly, along the way, he exposed his views more generally””that there is little freedom under Islam. […]
Egypt: Member of parliament disrupts proceedings with Islamic call to prayer
This guy again: Mamdouh Ismail, who, while taking his oath of office, added words to abide by Allah’s law. Large and small attempts to impose Sharia by any means available promise to continue in Egyptian society. “Egyptian Salafi MP calls to prayer in parliament session, met with anger,” by Eman El-Shenawi for Al-Arabiya, February 7: […]
Egypt: As many as 100,000 Christians have left in recent months
They’re fleeing all that “tolerance” that’s just breaking out all over. “Egypt’s Christians, post-Mubarak,” by Aline Sara for NOW Lebanon, January 31: “We don’t feel as safe as before,” said Georges Nader, an Egyptian Copt who lives in Cairo. A year after the revolution that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Nader said […]
Egyptian MP: U.S., Israel responsible for Port Said soccer bloodbath
At least 73 people were killed and hundreds injured. And of course we all know that Islam is a Religion of Peace, and therefore it simply isn’t possible that its peaceful and moderate adherents would ever be moved to violence. It must therefore be the fault of…the Zionists! “Egyptian MP Mustafa Bakri: America and Israel […]
Egyptian film star gets three months in jail for insulting Islam
More glories of the Arab Spring — and remember, this is the kind of anti-free speech law that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), with the willing cooperation of the Obama Administration, is trying to bring West. This man has had a 40-year career making fun of all sorts of people and things, but only […]
U.S. Accused of Running Over Egyptian Civilians
How many are the lies that Egypt’s military regime has forwarded concerning its role in attacking and killing Egyptian demonstrators since it usurped power a year ago? There were, for instance, the lies concerning the Maspero massacre, where the military slaughtered Christian Copts who were protesting the constant attacks on their churches“”including by running them […]