If dhimmis don’t remember their subservience, they will be made to remember it. A Coptic question has been killed in Egypt in yet another episode of the ongoing campaign of harassment of the indigenous Christians there. The report comes from Compass Direct: An Egyptian Christian was killed and two others seriously injured Monday when another […]
Consummated in Cairo
“Consummated in Cairo,” a new article by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer about December’s Cairo Conference sponsored by The International Campaign Against U.S. & Zionist Occupations, is available today at FrontPage magazine.com. It explores the strange new alliance cemented there between the radical Left and radical Islam. Che meets Osama, and they hit it off […]
Radical Muslims’ sentencing delayed
Did the attack on Maher cause the postponement? “An Egyptian security court has postponed sentencing in the trial of 23 Egyptians and three Britons accused of plotting to oust Arab governments.” So says Al-Jazeera, with thanks to Nicolei. “They stand accused of belonging to and trying to reactivate the banned Islamic Liberation Party, and aiming […]
The Copts’ plight
The Wall Street Journal (under subscription, so no link) today contains a commentary by Jonathan Eric Lewis, “The Coptic Path.” (Thanks to Jerry Gordon.) In it, Lewis cuts through the politically correct misinformation that usually chokes of any discussion of the fact that the Coptic Christians Egypt are, “to put it with supreme understatement, less […]
Egypt: Two Christians rearrested
“Two Christians from Alexandria originally detained in October have been rearrested. They were first arrested as part of a widespread sweep targeting converts from Islam and those who helped them obtain new identities.” This from The Barnabas Fund. “Last night at 8.00pm local time, Aziz Zakher Sarkis and Sharif Kameel Nazer were taken back into […]
Christian Convert Released From Prison
The Barnabas Fund reports that in Egypt on December 3, “police decided to release the last of the 22 converts and their supporters who were arrested between 21 and 24 October in Alexandria. Up until then it seemed that police were determined to make an example of Christian convert from Islam, Mariam Girgis Makar. They […]
Egypt: Christian who married Muslim convert captured trying to flee
More of the celebrated Islamic tolerance for other religions comes from Egypt: “A Coptic Christian secretly married to a woman convert from Islam was arrested for the second time last week while trying to leave Egypt for Canada.” This from Compass Direct. “Boulos Farid Rezek-Allah Awad, 31, was stopped at the Libyan border on November […]
Egypt: Christian convert held for altering IDs
Dhimmi news from “secular” Egypt: “Christian groups have raised concerns about a woman being held in a Cairo jail for illegally altering her identity card to reflect her conversion from Islam to Christianity.” This from Middle East Times. “Middle East Concern said Mariam Girgis Makar has been held for six weeks, after she was accused […]
Egypt: Protocols on display with Torah scrolls
MEMRI reports that “recently, a manuscript museum opened at the new Alexandria Library, which was renovated by the Egyptian and Italian governments via UNESCO. In the November 17, 2003 issue of the Egyptian weekly Al-Usbu’, correspondent Jihan Hussein reported that the museum had added ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ to the display case […]
Egyptian officials revoke church license to build after demolition of church
The U.S. Copts Association reports that “in yet another demonstration of the discriminate nature of the local governments of Egypt, local officials revoked a building license granted to the Brethren Church of Assiout. U.S. Copts Association received notification that after waiting for several years for permission to demolish and rebuild their church, the Church of […]