“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Egypt’s Sisi says suicide bomber behind church attack, four captured,” Reuters, December 12, 2016: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday […]
Egypt: Muslims bomb St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, murdering dozens
St Mark’s Cathedral is the “seat of Egypt’s Orthodox Christian church and home to the office of its spiritual leader, Pope Tawadros II.” Muslim Brotherhood operatives have long hated Pope Tawadros and the Coptic Christians, blaming them for the toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in 2013, and considering them kuffar harbi, infidels at war […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Christian village on rumor of church opening, block road so fire trucks can’t enter
“Fanatic Muslims in the village of al-Naghameesh in Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, attacked the Copts in the village todayele Friday 25 November, on rumour that they were opening a church. A guesthouse owned by Ihab Tamer, a Coptic doctor, was burned, the façades of 10 Coptic-owned houses were damaged, and a house and […]
Egypt: Muslim police torture and murder Christian in police station
Egyptian Christians live precarious lives, at the mercy of Muslim authorities who are often eager to brutalize them, in line with their Islamic supremacist assumptions and world view — and when they do, the Christians have no recourse. “Police crime shocks, angers Egyptians,” by Nader Shukry and Rehab Gamal, Watani International, November 19, 2016 (thanks […]
Egypt: Christian children kicked out of school for refusing to wear hijab, recite Qur’an
The world “human rights community” will take little notice of this, if any. And why should they? After all, no “Islamophobia” is being committed. “Christian children KICKED OUT of school for refusing to wear hijab or recite Koran,” by Alix Culbertson, Express, November 6, 2016: CHRISTIAN children are being deprived of their education and being […]
Egypt: Salafis angered by ‘welcome’ for Coptic Christian pope
The Salafis of Egypt—those Muslims who strive to live according to the literal example of prophet Muhammad and his companions—are angry. But it’s not because groups like ISIS are “hijacking” their religion and committing atrocities in its name. Rather it’s because a sign by Egypt’s premiere Salafi party, the “Salafi Call,” appeared welcoming Coptic Christian […]
Why Egypt’s Muslims Are Bitter Towards Coptic Christians
An analysis of this story. At a time when Coptic Christians are suffering abuses “every two or three days” in Egypt, a Muslim woman in America has made a video calling for more Muslim hostility against the Christian minority, in this case, in the guise of an economic boycott. In a video, Ayat Oraby—a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer who has nearly […]
New York-based Egyptian Muslim activist calls for boycott of Copts: “The crescent must be on top of the cross”
Ayat Oraby lives in New York. What does Bill de Blasio think will be the result of the importation of large numbers of Muslims who think the way she does? Does he think that most Muslims disagree with the idea that “the crescent must be on top of the cross”? He is in for a […]
Egypt: “Christians are original inhabitants of the nation,” says Coptic bishop
Coptic Christian Bishop Daniel met with the Swiss Minister of exterior at the St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church, during the minister’s recent visit. The bishop said that, formally, the Church enjoys good relations with the state and Al Azhar, which represents Islam in Egypt, but less formally, on […]
Egyptian Christian teens sentenced for “defaming Islam” flee to Switzerland
What will they do when Switzerland becomes another Egypt? Where will they flee then? As the free world commits suicide, where will free people go? “Coptic Teenagers Sentenced in Egypt for ‘Defaming Islam’ in Video Flee to Switzerland,” Morning Star News, September 3, 2016: Sentenced to prison in Egypt for allegedly insulting Islam in a […]