While much of the Arab world has been looking ever more favorably on Israel, with four states having joined the Abraham Accords which have led to the normalization of ties with the Jewish state, and multi-billion-dollar business deals involving trade, tourism, technology, agriculture, and defense, in Egypt at least one establishment figure takes the opposite […]
Egypt: Muslim screaming ‘there is no god but Allah’ stabs two Christians for selling beer
Sharia apologists in the West routinely insist that Sharia only applies to Muslims, and that non-Muslims therefore need not be concerned about it. They are, of course, lying. “In an urgent and exclusive video, the owner of a beer warehouse and his son were attacked in Al-Omraniyah,” translated from “بالفيديو عاجل وحصري ذبح صاحب مستودع […]
Egypt: Enraged Muslim mob throws rocks at Christian homes, starts fires after church gets legal recognition
The Pact of Umar, referred to below, is not a lone document. Islamic law forbids the construction of new churches. Christians are “forbidden to ring church bells or display crosses, recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays, and are forbidden to build new churches” – Reliance of the […]
Egypt: ‘Extremist’ Muslim tries to kill Christian woman by cutting her neck with a sickle
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “An attempt to slaughter a Coptic in the village of Sharona in Minya,” translated from “محاولة ذبح قبطية في قرية شارونة بالمنيا,” Coptic Solidarity, June 15, 2022: A Coptic woman called Mona Wafdi Marzouk, 35, in the village of Sharona, Maghagha district, Minya governorate, was […]
Al-Azhar calls for new law criminalizing ‘Islamophobia’
Al-Tayeb says that he doesn’t hold Christ responsible for massacres by Christians. But that is not an exact analogy, because there are no massacres by people who are screaming “Jesus is Lord” as they kill, and there are no teachings of Christ calling for violence. Meanwhile, his claim that “Islam rejects violence among people of […]
Egypt: Muslim ‘extremist’ attacks Christian with meat cleaver, killing him
Egyptian authorities claim that the perpetrator was mentally ill, but the victim’s family rejects this. He was a jihadi. “Cyril Majali succumbed to his injuries after being attacked with a machete in Akhmim by an extremist,” translated from “وفاة كيرلس مجلى متأثرًا بإصابته بعد الاعتداء عليه بساطور بأخميم على يد متطرف,” by Nader Shukry, Wataninet, […]
Egypt: Islamic State kills eleven soldiers in jihad attack on Sinai water pumping station
In the face of the manifest weakness of the U.S. and the West, the Islamic State (ISIS) is resurgent everywhere. “ISIS claims attack that kills 11 Egyptian troops, as US, EU, Arabs condemn assault,” by Laurie Mylroie, Kurdistan 24, May 9, 2022: WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – Eleven Egyptian soldiers, including one officer, were killed in […]
Egypt: Christian is shot 22 times, family says Islamic jihadis are responsible
Christians in Egypt and many other Muslim countries live with the knowledge that this sort of thing could happen at any time. “Young Coptic Christian Shot 22 Times,” International Christian Concern, April 29, 2022: 04/29/2022 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that four unidentified masked men shot down a young […]
Egypt: Muslim berates, slaps Christian woman for not wearing hijab
Christians are expected to be subservient and submissive. This is an assumption Ali Abu-Souad derived from Islam, which teaches that non-Muslims in the Islamic state must “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29), and that they are the “most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6) while Muslims are “the best […]
Muslim cleric calls for ban on serving food to ‘infidels’ before the end of daily Ramadan fast
Islamic apologists in the West have frequently insisted that Sharia laws apply only to Muslims. Mohamed Saleh El-Munajjid, who has a worldwide following, disagrees. “‘No food for infidels before iftar’: fatwa published by Egyptian newspaper sparks outrage,” by Thaer Mansour, The New Arab, April 13, 2022: A controversial fatwa published by the privately-owned Egyptian newspaper, […]