“Sectarian strife,” once again, which has quickly become a stock media phrase. The assault on Lara Logan in Tahrir Square was a rude awakening for much of the West to the nature of the problem faced by native and foreign women in Egypt on any given day. Sexual harassment is so severe and pervasive in […]
Obama to establish formal contacts with Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brothers “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” — […]
Muslim Brotherhood leader and former spokesman in the West calls for establishment of a global Islamic state
Caliphate dreams from the Muslim Brotherhood — and they’ve never had a better opportunity to transform those dreams into reality than they do now. “Muslim Brotherhood Figure and Former Spokesman in the West: Establish a Global Islamic State,” from MEMRI, June 24 (thanks to all who sent this in): In a June 8, 2011 interview […]
Egyptian court dismisses Muslim lawsuit alleging Copts abducted priest’s wife whom they claimed converted to Islam
The Camelia Shehata case should be dead and buried now, but will remain a pretext for jihadist violence. Conspiracy theories, which don’t have to make sense or be based in fact, will keep the grievance alive no matter what evidence or lack of evidence refutes them. Nonetheless, the closure of the case is quite satisfying. […]
Egyptian school curriculum: Jews and Christians are infidels
Who came out against reform last year? The “moderate,” “largely secular” Muslim Brotherhood. “‘Egyptian curricula states Jews, Christians are infidels’,” by Oren Kessler for the Jerusalem Post, June 28: Egypt’s school curriculum, laden with anti-Semitic and anti-Christian sentiment, must undergo drastic reform to comply with international standards, according to a new report to be presented […]
Egyptian deputy prime minister blames U.S., Israel for country’s “religious strife”
It is a standard practice in the Western mainstream media to cast Muslim aggression against Christian minorities in the catchy, alliterative mold of reciprocal “sectarian strife.” All the more so with Iran’s own PressTV here. PressTV and the deputy prime minister also know the value of a conspiracy theory, however old and tired it is. […]
Egypt: More Christian girls abducted, forced to convert to Islam
The more things change in the new, post-revolutionary Egypt, the more they stay the same. As Coptic Pope Shenouda III warned in 1976: “There is a practice to convert Coptic girls to embrace Islam and marry them under terror to Muslim husbands.” Here is another case in the recent surge in disappearances of Christian girls. […]
Egypt: Muslims torch eight Christian homes on rumor of church construction
All it takes is a rumor to spark a rampage against non-Muslims. The police, for their part, got around to responding three hours after the burning and looting ended. “Egyptian Muslims Torch 8 Christian Homes on Rumor of Church Construction,” by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency, June 26: (AINA) — A mob […]
Hundreds of Egyptian Muslims: “We will kill the priest, we will kill him and no one will prevent us.”
Another one of those “misunderstandings” seems to have cropped up again. Funny how that keeps happening. The crime this time? The priest received a license to renovate his church, and moved ahead with it. “Muslims Surround Church in Upper Egypt, Threaten to Kill Priest,” by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency, June 24: […]
Egypt: Growing calls to delay elections to give groups other than the Muslim Brotherhood time to organize
For obvious reasons, the Muslim Brotherhood is miffed, as hurrying the elections along would stack the deck in their favor. That was also the case with the hasty referendum on constitutional amendments held in March, which was promoted in part by Islamic groups including Ikhwan members as a way to keep Egypt’s Christians in line. […]