Women and Coptic Christians in Egypt can say goodbye to anything remotely resembling equality of rights with Muslim men. “Presidential adviser: Egyptians have desire to implement Sharia,” from Al-Masry Al-Youm, September 4 (thanks to Twostellas): Bassam al-Zarqa, one of the advisors to President Mohamed Morsy, said the Egyptian people have “an overwhelming desire to implement […]
Your tax dollars at work: U.S. to forgive $1 billion in debt to aid Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt
You’d think that the experience of Afghanistan and Iraq and so many other places would have shown the learned analysts in Washington that money can’t buy loyalty when it comes to Islamic supremacists, but they appear to be impervious to evidence. “U.S. Prepares Economic Aid to Bolster Democracy in Egypt,” by Steven Lee Myers in […]
“Arab Spring” Egypt shuts down last Jewish synagogue
Tolerance and pluralism in full flower in the new Muslim Brotherhood Egypt. “Egypt Shuts Down Last Jewish Synagogue,” from the Jewish Press, September 1 (thanks to David): For the first time in 2,000 years, there will be no Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services at the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria in 5773, reports Daniel […]
Egypt’s Salafi Party Objects to Banning Sex Slavery
Considering that the abduction, enslavement, rape, and trafficking of Coptic Christian girls, especially minors, in Egypt is at an all time high””according to U.S. lawyers, 550 such cases have been documented in the last five years””Egypt’s Constituent Assembly to the Constitution met yesterday to consider the inclusion of a new article, #33, in the section […]
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cleric: “The day will come when we will be masters of the world”
This appears to have originally aired earlier, as Raymond reported on it here at Jihad Watch on July 28. In any case, it directly contradicts the widely publicized recent study that claims that Islamic supremacists are not seeking world domination. “Egyptian Cleric Safwat Higazi: ‘The Day Will Come When We Will Be the Masters of […]
“Arab Spring” in full flower: Muslim Brotherhood taking total control of Egypt
Remember Morsi’s promise to appoint a woman and a Copt as Vice Presidents? I got an avalanche of tweets and emails crowing that my prediction that Egypt would become a Sharia state under the Brotherhood had been proven incorrect. Well, here we are again: “Indeed he had promised to appoint a woman and a Copt […]
Only hundreds rally against Egypt’s Islamic supremacist president
Not nearly enough. But as I have said for years, Islamic supremacism and Sharia are popular in Muslim countries, as secular rule is considered un-Islamic. “Hundreds rally against Egypt’s Islamist president,” from the Associated Press, August 24 (thanks to Kenneth): Hundreds of protesters are rallying on the streets in several Egyptian cities to denounce the […]
Egypt: Muslim throws nail bombs at German Embassy because some Germans displayed Muhammad cartoons
Worth killing for The worst part about this is that the West will continue trying to curtail the freedom of speech to avoid offending lunatics like this, instead of telling the Islamic world that to react with violent rage to a few cartoons is madness. “Egypt arrests man after nail bomb attack on German embassy,” […]
Egypt: Salafi leader says conspiring against Morsi, the “ruling imam,” is conspiring against Allah
It is unlikely that he said anything like this when Mubarak was in power, but of course Mubarak did not rule according to Islamic law. “Egypt: Conspiring Against Ruler Is Conspiring Against God – Salafi,” from Aswat Masriya, August 19 (thanks to Twostellas): Salafi (ultraconservative) leader and member of the constituent assembly, tasked with rewriting […]
U.S. “very concerned” for freedom of glorious democratic “Arab Spring” Egyptian press
But Egypt was supposed to be going through a flowering of democracy and pluralism! And as it did, the U.S. Government supported them at every turn. Now that Egypt is on the way to becoming an Islamic state, with its attendant restrictions on the freedom of the press, American officials are “concerned.” If they hadn’t […]