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Egypt riots raise worries about Islamic supremacists

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I tried to tell you. “Egypt riots raise worries over Islamic hard-liners,” by Lee Keath for the Associated Press, May 9: CAIRO (AP) “” Deadly Muslim-Christian riots that left 12 dead and a Cairo church a burned-out husk have magnified worries in Egypt over Islamic ultraconservatives who have grown more assertive since the fall of […]

Egypt: 50,000 attend Muslim Brotherhood/Salafi rally: “The United Arab States and the United Islamic States are inevitably coming, and soon we will have one caliph to rule us all”

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Democracy on the march! “Thousands attend joint Brotherhood-Salafi rally,” by Hany ElWaziry for AlMasry AlYoum, May 8: More than 50,000 people on Saturday attended a joint rally held by the Muslim Brotherhood group and Salafis in Haram district, Giza. The organizers chanted slogans stating that the Brotherhood and the Salafis are one, and that both […]

Egypt: Muslim rampage against Christians continues, now 12 dead, 232 wounded

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Will the Islamophobia never end? An update on this story. “Muslims Attack Christians in Egypt, 12 Killed, 232 Injured,” by Mary Abdelmassih for AINA, May 8: (AINA) — Christians Copts in the area of Embaba were attacked Saturday evening by Muslim Salafis. The attacks lasted for 14 hours. The Muslims fired guns and rifles and […]

Egypt: Muslims attack three churches, murder five Christians

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The phenomenon that Marisol noted here is on abundant display in this article: Muslim-on-Christian violence is portrayed as “violent clashes between conservative Muslims and Christians,” as if both sides were equally at fault. And whenever Muslim violence is described, the passive voice is used — no perpetrator is stated. Yet what is really happening here […]

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party leader says it is “not a religious party, not a theocratic party”

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But just last week the Muslim Brotherhood’s Deputy Supreme Guide said that the Brotherhood wanted to establish an Islamic state in Egypt. Whom to believe? The one whose statement matches up with everything the Brotherhood has been dedicated to doing since its founding in 1928, or the one whose statement represents a departure from all […]

Were conquered Christians really liberated Muslims?

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Over the years at Jihad Watch we have seen many times how Islamic supremacists rewrite both history and contemporary reality in order to absolve Islam of any wrongdoing. Some of these efforts have been quite successful — notably, the whitewashing of medieval Muslim Spain. In this piece, our friend Raymond Ibrahim examines another. “Were Conquered […]

Egypt: 2,000 Islamic supremacists protest outside Coptic Church

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It’s Friday afternoon, and you know what that means. This time the Islamic supremacists were protesting against their murderous brethren who attacked a church in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve, killing 21 — weren’t they? Oddly enough, no; rather, they were enraged over the Copts’ supposedly holding two women who converted to Islam. All the […]

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom: Egypt commits “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom”

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But fear not: the flowering secular democracy will be just great for Christians in Egypt. And if you believe that, I’ve got some lovely riverfront property I’d like to talk to you about. “Panel blacklists Egypt for religious oppression,” by Ashish Kumar Sen for The Washington Times, April 28 (thanks to all who sent this […]

Lara Logan: “They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence”

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The brutal, opportunistic sexual assault of Lara Logan — an inconvenient incident in the feel-good story the mainstream media desperately wanted the Egyptian revolution to be — is for many Westerners an introduction to the deplorable treatment and constant harassment of native as well as foreign women in Egypt. And as we have seen, the […]

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