Sinai Christians have become a target for the Islamic State, which is now “waging an insurgency against the Egyptian government in Sinai” and “has turned to targeting Christian civilians after suffering setbacks in its confrontation with the army.” On February 19, ISIS released a video threatening attacks on Christians as a follow-up to its December bombing […]
Egypt: Islamic State jihadis storm home of Christian plumber, murder him in front of his wife and children
In a recent Islamic State video, “the narrator goes on to say that Christians were no longer ‘Dhimmis’ – a term used in Islam in reference to non-Muslims who enjoy a degree of state protection. Instead, the group describes Egyptian Christians as ‘infidels who are empowering the West against Muslim nations.’” This is Islamic law: […]
Islamic State vows to massacre Christians: “Allah gave orders to kill every infidel”
“The narrator goes on to say that Christians were no longer ‘Dhimmis’ – a term used in Islam in reference to non-Muslims who enjoy a degree of state protection. Instead, the group describes Egyptian Christians as ‘infidels who are empowering the West against Muslim nations.’” This is Islamic law: Christians and other “People of the […]
Egypt: Muslims shoot Christian teacher in the head as attacks on Christians escalate
The Economist reported in December that “a massacre of Coptic Christians” in Egypt is underway, and identified “disgruntled Islamists” who are out to revenge Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s crackdown of the Muslim Brotherhood. Coptic Christians strongly supported el-Sisi’s ouster of his MB predecessor, Mohammed Morsi. Former Unit 777 (an Egyptian military counter-terrorism and special operations unit) chief-of-staff […]
Egypt: Four Christians slaughtered over the course of 10 days
That the Coptic Christian Church continues to voice its support for President Sisi should not be interpreted to mean that the situation of Egypt’s Christian minority has improved. One need only look to the substratum of news for confirmation. The current month of January alone has already witnessed three separate instances over the course of […]
Egypt: Muslim stabs Christian surgeon to death
“A few days earlier, on 5 January, security forces discovered the bodies of a Coptic couple, Gamal Sami Guirguis and Nadia Amin Guirguis, stabbed to death in their home as they slept, in Monufia Governorate, northern Egypt, about 85 km from the Egyptian capital.” The Muslim killers may consider their Christian victims kuffar harbi, infidels […]
Christian Worship Is ‘Worse than Murder and Bloodshed’
For an idea on why Egypt’s Coptic Christians and their churches are constantly under attack—most recently last Sunday, when a church was bombed, killing at least 25 Christians—one need merely listen to the words and teachings of some of the nation’s Muslim preachers. Take Dr. Ahmed al-Naqib, for instance. He has studied at the best […]
Egypt: Christians still denied churches while government opens 10 mosques every week
One week before the bombing of St. Peter’s cathedral chapel which left at least 25 Christians dead, hostility for Christian churches was being shown in the usual, less spectacular way. Egyptian authorities and politicians held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on Islam, in the village of Naghameesh, Sohag. Those present […]
Islamic State claims responsibility for church bombing, Egypt says bomber was Muslim Brotherhood supporter
The bomber could have been both a Muslim Brotherhood supporter and a supporter of the Islamic State. Although rivals, the two have the same outlook and goals, and the bomber was from one or the other, as I explained here. “Islamic State claims responsibility for Egypt church bombing that killed 25,” Associated Press, December 13, […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Muslims Bomb Cairo Coptic Cathedral
“What have they done to deserve this?” They were Christians. My latest in FrontPage: As the Divine Liturgy was ending Sunday morning at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, there was, in the words of one man who was there, a “shattering explosion like nothing I had ever heard before.” The latest reports indicate […]