From IOL, with thanks to Twostellas: Assuit, Egypt – About 7 000 students demonstrated on Tuesday in the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut calling on the Arab League to declare war on Israel. The demonstrators gathered amid tight security on the campuses of Assiut university and the local branch of Al-Azhar, the Islamic university with […]
Egypt: Muslims throw stones at church building site; riot ensues
Islamic law for dhimmis forbids them to build new churches or repair old ones. That is, many will tell you, a relic of history. But when Christians in Egypt tried to build a new church, Muslims, programmed by centuries of cultural habit, took umbrage at the uppity dhimmis; the ensuing confrontation was bloody. “One Dead, […]
Prosecutor: Lawyer Helped Sheik Break Law
Lynne Stewart trial update, from AP, with thanks to None: NEW YORK — A lawyer and two co-defendants helped an imprisoned Egyptian sheik commit a sort of “jailbreak” by allowing him to get around prison rules and feed messages to terrorists overseas, a prosecutor told a federal jury Wednesday. In his closing argument, assistant U.S. […]
US Copts Association: Write to the President
A message from Michael Meunier, president of the US Copts Association: Dear All, Please take the time to either hand write the following letter or hand sign and mail/fax it to President Bush. While there are other letters and on-line petitions being sent out, our experience show that hand writing letters or hand signed letters […]
Egyptian Authorities Refuse to Charge Christian Prisoner
Another dhimmi persecuted in Egypt. From Compass Direct: November 19 (Compass) — An Egyptian Christian jailed without charges for 19 months has become emotionally disturbed and lost vision in one eye from torture and lack of medical treatment, his widowed mother declared last week. Hany Samir Tawfik, 28, has been continuously jailed since March 2003. […]
Israel: Egypt facilitates arms smuggling
Anyone who is surprised by this, please contact me for some excellent suspension bridge deals. From UPI, : Jerusalem, Israel, Aug. 25 (UPI) — Military Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya’alon blamed Egypt for facilitating arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip, The Jerusalem Post reports. A source attending a closed-door meeting with a small […]
Urgent Call to Leaders of The Free World
From the Egypt Shadow Government. If the UN were sane, this is the sort of thing it would be working on: To: The Leaders of The Free World From: Egypt Shadow Government Subject: Impose Sanctions on the Regimes of Mubarak, Sauds and Assad! Dear Sirs, Egypt Shadow Government (ESG) herewith calls upon you to impose […]
Canada: No excuse to send man to torture, lawyers argue
He’ll be tortured in Egypt, they assert, and that seems to be more important than the fact that he hoped to cause the deaths of large numbers of Canadians. From the Toronto Star: The federal government has failed to justify the drastic step of sending a suspected terrorist back to Egypt given the high likelihood […]
Well done, good and faithful servant: American prof’s book on Islam wins award in Cairo
Dr. Carl Ernst’s Following Muhammad, a highly apologetic text, has won Egypt’s Shaykh Muhammad Salih Bashrahil Prize for Outstanding Cultural Creativity. And it is indeed a very creative book. Ernst, of course, is the Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor at the University of North Carolina, my alma mater. Oh, the pain! From The Outer Banks […]
Egyptian shadow government forming
Introducing a band of courageous men: the Egyptian shadow government. Egypt Shadow Government has been founded by a group of liberal and progressive Egyptians to free Egypt from dictatorship and fanaticism and to save it from sinking into chaos, famines and civil wars. The objectives of this shadow government are briefly listed as follows: 1. […]