Abdulfattah El-Sisi some time ago gave an interview to Scott Pelley of CBS’s “60 Minutes.” Shortly after it was taped, Egypt’s ambassador to the United States requested that the interview not be aired. CBS refused the request. All reports suggest that El-Sisi had reconsidered the wisdom of having his remarks broadcast about close military collaboration […]
Egyptian YouTuber leaves Islam “because of racism and cruelty in people who are supposed to believe in God”
Shady Srour is going to have to continue to worry about that cruelty. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause […]
Egyptian researcher: “We should erect a statue of Hitler for what he did to the Jews”
Whence this hatred? The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love […]
Egypt: Muslims kidnap Christian man traveling in taxi in Sinai peninsula
This is sanctioned in Islamic law. Now the kidnapped man will be killed, enslaved, exchanged for ransom, or released outright. Here is a salient passage on this issue from a Shafi’i manual of Islamic law: When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of Islam and the Muslims) and decides […]
Egypt: Muslim mobs force closure of four churches, cops arrest priests instead of attackers
“The subject peoples … are forbidden to build new churches.” (Reliance of the Traveller, o11.5). Islamic law also forbids Christians to repair existing churches. Police side with the attackers because they share their Islamic faith, and their view that it is forbidden for the Christians to construct new churches. “Christian persecution: Four churches CLOSED by […]
Egypt: Police officer killed while defusing jihad bomb outside church
Christians in Egypt live a precarious existence. They’re victimized by jihadis fairly regularly, and never know when or where it may happen. But this is nothing that a little “interfaith dialogue” won’t fix, right? “Egypt police officer killed defusing church bomb: security source,” AFP, January 5, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A policeman […]
A day after jihadis murder four tourists, Vatican ambassador to Egypt says “dialogue” prevents terrorism
“The absence of dialogue between Al-Azhar and Vatican is the greatest gift for terrorism, Musarò added.” He said that on December 29. “Two Vietnamese tourists were killed earlier on Dec. 28 and ten others were injured in a tourist bus explosion in Marioteya district, near Giza governorate.” Apparently the jihadis who killed those tourists didn’t […]
Egypt: Muslims murder at least four, injure 11 in bombing of tourist bus near Pyramids
Islamic jihadists generally hate tourists and tourism. In Egypt, the main attractions are artifacts of the nation’s pre-Islamic civilization, and as far as they are concerned, that is jahiliyyah, the society of unbelievers, and thus worthless trash worthy of no respect. “At least 4 dead in Egypt tourist bus bombing near pyramids,” by Mohammed Tawfeeq […]
Egypt: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” attacks Christians, forces closure of church
“The subject peoples … are forbidden to build new churches.” (Reliance of the Traveller, o11.5). Islamic law also forbids Christians to repair existing churches. “Koum al-Raheb church closed, Copts attacked,” by Nader Shukry, Watani International, December 10, 2018: The police has caught an unspecified number of Copts and Muslims in the village of Koum al-Raheb […]
Egypt: Christian gets three years prison for insulting Islam
Here is a glimpse into the very near future of Western Europe and North America. “Egyptian Christian Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence for Insulting Islam,” International Christian Concern, December 10, 2018: 12/10/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on November 27, Coptic Christian Abd Adel Bebawy was sentenced by […]