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Egyptian police drive vehicle into canal, killing 3 Copts, including priest

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A press release from the U.S. Copts Association: IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Tadros Phone: 202.737.3660 Washington DC (5/2/04) – In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 2nd, Egyptian police forces in El Minia, Egypt arrested a Coptic priest and four other Copts. After loading the Copts onto a police truck, Egyptian police drove the […]

Call For Incorporating Sharia Into International Law

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Sudan’s Essam al-Bashir A call to Islamize international law comes from a Cairo conference on Islamic tolerance. Of course, Sharia is tolerant from an Islamic perspective, but from the point of view of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the belief systems from which that document was derived, it leaves quite a […]

A Call to Action for the Copts

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An open letter to all Copts from Michael Meunier, President of the U.S. Copts Association: Dear Copts, Given the grave conditions facing our Coptic brethren in Egypt, we now present you, the Copts of the Diaspora, an opportunity to instigate change on their behalf. For the past month, the U.S. Copts Association has been laboring […]

Egyptian Professor: “No Conclusive Proof” Arabs & Muslims Behind 9/11 – U.S. May be Responsible

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Professors who are, shall we say, somewhat less than disinterested academics are not just in the US. MEMRI reports on one in Egypt : In an article titled ‘Colonial Echoes’ which appeared recently in Al-Ahram Weekly, Galal Amin, a professor of economics at the American University in Cairo, reacted to the U.S. administration’s Greater Middle […]

Anti-American and Antisemitic Cartoons in Leading Egyptian Government Weekly Al-Ahram

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A cartoon from this week’s Al-Ahram: always claiming the role of victim, never acknowledging any responsibility MEMRI has a lengthy and illuminating report about the anti-American and anti-Semitic slant of Egypt’s government paper Al-Ahram. (Thanks to Kevin.) Al-Ahram newspapers are controlled by the Egyptian government and edited by the government-appointed Ibrahim Nafi’, who also serves […]

Egypt: Coptic Pope condemns forced conversions of Christians to Islam

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Pope Shenouda III A press release from the Jubilee Campaign, with thanks to FreedomNowNews: For immediate release March 25th 2004 EGYPTIAN CHURCH LEADER CONDEMNS FORCED CONVERSIONS OF CHRISTIANS TO ISLAM Pope Shenouda the Third, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, has publicly condemned the kidnapping and forced conversions of Christian women to Islam. […]

Egypt Deploys 1,000 Police After Christians Killed

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More “Muslim-Christian tensions” in which the victims all seem to be Christian. From Reuters: Egyptian authorities deployed some 1,000 police around a southern town on Saturday to forestall any Muslim-Christian clashes after two Christian men were killed in a street brawl, security sources said. The Christians were axed to death after a donkey being ridden […]

Egyptian Government Daily: Suicide Bombings are Legitimate Even if Children Are Killed

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MEMRI reports that Al-Masaa, an Egyptian government daily, has justified the murder of children by suicide bombing: “We have no argument regarding the question of the legitimacy of these operations, because they are considered a powerful weapon used by the Palestinians against an enemy with no morality or religion, [an enemy] who has deadly weapons […]

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