The head of the Egyptian Human Rights Organization called it a “limited but positive symbolic step.” The decree is foremost an attempt take the pressure off of the military following its massacre of Christian protesters last Sunday. The true test will be how it is enforced. Generalities about “discrimination” leave its identification in the eye […]
Egypt: Military takes over investigation of its own massacre of Christians
The report should make for good fiction, but it will otherwise not be worth the paper it is printed on. “Egypt military takes over inquiry of Coptic unrest,” by Aya Batrawi for the Associated Press, October 13: CAIRO (AP) “” Egypt’s military prosecutor said Thursday his office will take over the investigation into deadly clashes […]
Egyptian Catholic leader says government “doesn’t give a damn”
They are no longer just looking the other way from freelance Islamic supremacists. This time, they not only did not give a damn about the slaughter, they played the lead role, on the ground against the protesters, and in the state media. “Catholic leader in Egypt says government ‘doesn’t give a damn’,” by John L. […]
The Egyptian Military’s Crimes Against Humanity
Earlier today on Hudson NY (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discussed the Egyptian military’s recent massacre of Christian civilians and the mainstream media’s attempts to portray it as “sectarian strife”: Sunday, the Egyptian military opened fire on thousands of Christians protesting in Maspero, Cairo. In the words of one Christian eyewitness, armored vehicles “came at great speed […]
Egypt: “How have Copts become so unprotected in their own country? Why is it so easy to kill over a dozen of us in a protest while those who stormed into the Israeli embassy were not even harmed?”
As the Egyptian prime minister blames a “dirty conspiracy,” more details are emerging about the massacre of the protesters: “At one point, an armored security van sped into the crowd, striking a half-dozen protesters and throwing some into the air.” “After midnight, mobs roamed downtown streets, attacking cars they suspected had Christian passengers. In many […]
Egypt: “I feel this country is going to be Islamic. The Army is the one who shoots the Christian people, and says to the Muslims, ‘here, take your country now.'”
I tried to tell you. “Why did Egypt’s Army violently suppress Christian protesters? (VIDEO),” by Kristen Chick in the Christian Science Monitor, October 10 (thanks to Jonathan): Cairo — A deadly attack by the Egyptian Army on a Christian demonstration Sunday evening left as many as 24 dead, and incited sectarian violence that opened a […]
Egypt: Muslim thugs, military attack Christian protesters, 19 dead
More flowering of the Arab Spring. I tried to tell you. “Riots over church attack in Egypt kill 19,” by Maggie Michael for the Associated Press, October 9: CAIRO (AP) “” Massive clashes that drew in Christians angry over a recent church attack, Muslims, and Egyptian security forces raged over a large section of downtown […]
Shocker in Egypt: Christians facing rising discrimination, increasingly strident Islamic supremacism after revolution
We tried to tell you. The Sharia being implemented in Egypt will not be Paper Sharia, the theoretical constructs entertained in Western academic exercises about what Sharia could, would, should, or ought to be. Egypt’s Christians will not face the “moderate” Sharia prototype on someone’s drawing board. They will get the production model, whose performance […]
Egyptian Salafists: “The people who don’t recognize Islamic Sharia won’t enter paradise,” and those who oppose it are “adulterers, thieves, and immoral people”
It is a foregone conclusion that post-revolutionary Egypt will continue to have Sharia law as the basis of legislation in its next constitution, as is enshrined in Article 2 of the current constitution. Therein lies a perpetual source of instability: Sharia has something to say about every aspect of Muslim life, and there can always […]
Al-Azhar University deputy rector: “Jihad has become an individual duty incumbent upon each and every one of us,” and our enemies are “the offspring of pigs and apes”
Al-Azhar University is the most prestigious institution in all of Sunni Islam. Not long after 9/11, the New York Times hailed it as moderate. In Islamic theology, jihad warfare is fard kifaya, an obligation of the community as a whole but not of every individual believer. Jihad becomes fard ayn, obligatory on every individual Muslim […]