Targeting the People of the Book. More on one of the stories Raymond Ibrahim discusses here and Marisol Seibold here. “Qaeda group in Iraq says Christians ‘legitimate targets,’” from AFP, November 3 (thanks to Alan of England): DUBAI (AFP) – An Al-Qaeda group in Iraq has declared Christians “legitimate targets” as a deadline expired for […]
Website of Chicago synagogue targeted in UPS bomb plot visited from Egypt 83 times in one day
The planning for this jihad attack evidently involved more than just a few people in Yemen. “Chicago Synagogue Cites Web Visits From Egypt,” by Lauren Etter for the Wall Street Journal, October 30 (thanks to Choi): A rabbi at one of the synagogues allegedly targeted by explosive-laden packages from Yemen said that the group’s website […]
Islamic supremacists in Egypt project their crimes on the Copts
The persecution of Egypt’s Coptic minority is taking an ironic, and dangerous, turn: Islamist leaders are now projecting the worst traits of radical Islam onto Egypt’s Christians. A psychological phenomenon first described by Sigmund Freud, “projection” is defined as “the attribution of one’s own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people.” As such, consider how […]
Copts rally at UN against Muslim persecution, October 20
Speaking of the persecution of the Copts, on Wednesday I spoke outside the UN at a rally organized by the American Coptic Association, an organization dedicated to defending persecuted Copts in Egypt. The trouble that the Copts are experiencing in Egypt all results from the doctrines of Islamic jihad; but the world looks the other […]
Egypt: Coptic Christians fed to Muslim “lions”
For centuries, the Copts — Egypt’s Christian, indigenous inhabitants — have been subject to persecution, discrimination, humiliation, and over all subjugation in their homeland (etymologically, “Copt” simply means “Egyptian”). In the medieval era, such treatment was a standard aspect of sharia’s dhimmi codes, first ratified under Caliph Omar in the 7th century and based on […]
Egyptian State Security behind anti-Church demonstrations
“The Regime is presenting the Church and the Pope as a scapegoat on a gold platter to these neo-Wahhabis in order to appease them.” What a surprise. “Egyptian State Security Behind Anti-Church Demonstrations,” by Mary Abdelmassih for AINA, October 10: (AINA) — The recent mounting attack by Muslim fundamentalists on the Coptic Church and its […]
Egypt: Mother of Christian twins seeks intervention of Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar to prevent their conversion by force
An update on this story. This woman and her sons have been given the run-around by Egyptian authorities for years, as they have tried to resist the auto-conversion the state tried to inflict upon the sons because their father converted to Islam. There is supposedly “no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256) but there are innumerable […]
Coptic pope apologizes for bishop’s questioning of Qur’anic verses
Pope Shenouda III is in a no-win situation. In a Muslim-dominated country, members of his flock may be murdered over the bishop’s questioning the veracity of the Qur’an. It is his natural right to do so, but one that is suppressed and denied under Islamic domination. And they may end up dying anyway, at the […]
Egypt: Copts see Muslims gearing up for mass violence against Christians
Serious provocations to “sectarian violence” — i.e., jihad. “Egyptian Coptic Church Accused of Stockpiling Weapons,” by Mary Abdelmassih for AINA, September 21 (thanks to all who sent this in): (AINA) — A new wave of defamation by Islamists against Coptic Pope Shenouda III and the Coptic Church is seen by many observers as a serious […]
Egypt: Islamic supremacists fabricate story of forced conversion of Muslim woman to Christianity
Forced conversions of Christian women and girls to Islam abound in Egypt, and so in a characteristic example of their habit of projection and deflection of responsibility onto their victims, Islamic supremacists fabricated a fish story about a Muslim woman being forced to convert to Christianity. “Egyptian Muslim Radicals Fabricated Story of Priest’s Wife Conversion,” […]