Gearing up, they hope and expect, for the revolution after the revolution. More on this story. “Groups quit Egypt rally saying hijacked by Islamists,” by Edmund Blair and Marwa Awad for Reuters, July 29: (Reuters) – More than 30 political parties and movements withdrew from a rally on Friday that was organized to send a […]
Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Cairo, demand Islamic state
Note the frequent use of “ultraconservatives” in this piece. Again, for AP, to be “ultraconservative” means to want Sharia, and to be “ultraconservative” means to resist Sharia. I tried to tell you: “Thousands demonstrate for an Islamic state in Egypt,” by Ben Hubbard for The Associated Press, July 29 (thanks to Pamela Geller): Calls for […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Christians over the installation of a church bell
Umdat al-Salik (The Reliance of the Traveler), a manual for the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence certified as “reliable” by Egypt’s al-Azhar University, explains that non-Muslims 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 […]
Egyptian agriculture minister blamed Israel for contaminated fenugreek seeds from Egypt that killed dozens in Europe
You’ve got to hand it to them: those hidden Zionist conspirators are thorough. Not even the fenugreek is safe from their wiles. Somewhere in the Grand Conspiracy Headquarters is a Fenugreek File on someone’s desk with all the nefarious plans. Once again, conspiracy theories are handy for Islamic governments and societies, where they tend to […]
Egypt: “The best way to eliminate someone politically is to accuse him of having ties with Israel.”
Conspiracy theories are a handy thing in that they don’t have to make sense, and they allow one to abdicate responsibility for a situation, because it is ultimately in the hands of the supposedly hidden puppeteers. Bad economy? Blame Israel. “Sectarian strife?” Blame Israel. Bad hair day? There’s probably a way to pin that on […]
Muslim Brotherhood: We must implement Sharia in stages
I tried to tell you. “Article on Muslim Brotherhood Website: Implement Shari’a in Phases,” from MEMRI, July 5: In a June 11, 2011 article on the website of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, veteran movement member Sheikh Ahmad Gad argued that the implementation of shari’a in Egypt must be achieved gradually, by preparing the peoples’ hearts […]
Coptic bishop: “People who claim that Egypt’s Copts exercise their full freedom of religion and expression are delusional”
In this report, the Egyptian high court has permitted Christians who convert to Islam but want to return to Christianity, or who were administratively converted because a parent did, to be identified again as Christians on their national identification cards. But permission does not guarantee judges will act accordingly or will be held accountable for […]
An interview with an Egyptian jihadist–why Sadat was murdered
Buried deep down in this mainstream media treatment are some interesting if not troubling revelations regarding a jihadist in Cairo named Aboud Al-Zomor, who was recently released from prison by the post Mubarak regime. Any emphasis added below is my own. Excerpts from “Sadat’s assassination plotter remains unrepentant”, MSNBC, 5 July 2011: Egyptian authorities…believed Zomor […]
“Pro-Palestinian Islamic extremists” bomb Egypt-Israel gas pipeline made possible by Camp David accords
Cutting off their proverbial noses to spite their faces, by destroying infrastructure and wasting valuable energy to make a point. Jihad causes poverty. This episode also rather puts a dent in recent attempts to cast Islam and Sharia as better stewards of the environment. “Sinai: explosion hits gas pipeline built thanks to Egypt-Israel accords,” from […]
Egypt: Muslims go on rampage after uppity Christian man has the unmitigated gall to defend his wife from assault
Here is the rest of the story initially reported here. That staggeringly understated report described a scene of “sectarian strife,” a term which implies equal participation and responsibility. According to that report, the cause of the “strife” was that Muslims reportedly “bothered” Christian girls. It was more than a bothersome night in Kolosna: “Sexual Harassment […]