Egypt was conquered by Arab armies in 642. Its Islamization was accomplished, as I detail in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, by placing the humiliating and discriminatory regulations of dhimmitude upon the native Christian population. Those regulations had their intended effect: Egypt was 99% Christian at the time of the […]
Egypt: Bishop found murdered in monastery
This murder could have been perpetrated by someone within the monastery, but it is more likely to be more of the Muslim persecution of the Coptic Christians that has been ongoing for fourteen centuries, and has stepped up in virulence since 2013, when the Muslim Brotherhood government was toppled and the Brotherhood blamed the nation’s […]
Egypt: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” encouraged by police in attack on church
Islamic law is clear: “The subject peoples … are forbidden to build new churches.” (Reliance of the Traveller, o11.5). That’s why these Muslims riot at the prospect of a new church being built, and why the police aid the rioters instead of the victims. The police agree with the rioters. “Egypt: Mob attack encouraged by […]
Coptic Pope: Egypt has been model for coexistence between Christians and Muslims for 14 centuries
The Coptic Christians are under tremendous pressure in Egypt, and in that light it is understandable why Pope Tawadros would say this, as preposterous as it is: to state the truth might make the situation even more difficult for Egyptian Christians. In reality, they have been oppressed for centuries, and when that oppression was relaxed, […]
Jizya, “Military Exemption,” and Murdered Christian Soldiers
One of the staples of the Islamic whitewashing industry is the claim that jizya — the extortion money subjugated Jews and Christians were required to pay (a la Koran 9:29) — actually “entitled them to Muslim protection from outside aggression and exempted them from military service,” to quote Georgetown University’s John Esposito. By this widely held logic, […]
Islam’s ‘Slow Motion Genocide’ of Christians
Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda made the following observation during a recent speech: “Having faced for 1,400 years the slow-motion genocide that began long before the ongoing ISIS genocide today, the time for excusing this inhuman behavior and its causes is long since passed.” That Muslims have cleansed non-Muslim peoples by the sword since the seventh century to the present is […]
Forget the “Terrorists,” What about Your Own Government, Mr. Sisi?
It is one thing for Egyptian President Sisi not to be able to prevent surprise Islamic terror attacks against Egypt’s Christians, the Copts. But what does one make of the fact that his own government also discriminates against and persecutes the Copts? Most recently, a court sentenced 19 Muslim defendants to a one-year suspended sentence for attacking […]
Facebook “Intellectually Terrorizes” a Human Rights Activist
My name is Magdi Khalil, I am an American citizen and a resident of Virginia. My Facebook page can be found here. I currently work as an analyst researcher at an American institution. For over 20 years, I have been a well-known commentator on Middle Eastern affairs and the executive editor of international pages for […]
Egypt: Muslims who attacked church get no jail time, Christian fined $20,383 for unlicensed church
Islamic law forbids Christians to build new churches: “The subject peoples … are forbidden to build new churches.” (Reliance of the Traveller, o11.5). Islamic law also forbids Christians to repair old ones. And so in this case, the Muslims who attacked the church get off scot-free, while the Christian who set up the unlicensed church […]
Egypt: Muslims murder Christian for having cross tattoo, vow to “kill more Copts”
The cross is an affront to Islam. The Qur’an claims that Jesus was not crucified, although in somewhat equivocal language for what is supposed to be the perfect word of an omniscient god: “And their saying, ‘Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.’ And they did not […]