“A main reason for the trip is to try to strengthen relations with the 1,000-year-old Azhar center that were cut by the Muslim side in 2011 over what it said were repeated insults of Islam by Francis’s predecessor, Pope Benedict.” What did Benedict say? Andrea Gagliarducci of the Catholic News Agency explains that after a […]
Did Trump get a Muslim Brotherhood operative freed from an Egyptian prison?
“Despite flimsy evidence, the group was eventually charged on seven counts, including operating an unlicensed organizations, inciting street children to join pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests and sexually assaulting minors. The group denied all the charges, and human rights lawyers said the evidence against them was fabricated. The state’s own forensic report found no evidence that any […]
Egypt: Muslims attack security forces near St. Catherine’s Monastery, killing at least one police officer
St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai is iconic; it is one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on a police checkpoint about 800 meters (yards) from the entrance to the monastery, one of the world’s most important Christian sites. Despite the useless state of emergency declared by Egyptian […]
Cairo: Muslims invoked Allah’s wrath on Christians over loudspeakers before Palm Sunday church jihad attacks
Coptic Christians in Egypt, who’ve been targeted in a number of recent terror attacks, have said that for years Muslim imams were allowed to preach hatred and violence against Christians to the public over loudspeakers. It is all too common for imams to preach hatred and violence against Christians. Even on Western soil, the jihad doctrine […]
US embassy in Cairo warns its citizens to avoid “identifiable places of worship”
Grow a spine, US embassy in Cairo. American citizens have no need to avoid mosques in Cairo. No one is going to set off a bomb in any of them. The threat is to churches, and to Egypt’s Christians, and you know that full well, but don’t dare to state it clearly, for fear of […]
Graphic: Images and video of Palm Sunday’s Coptic church bombings
The number of dead from the Palm Sunday bombings of two Coptic churches in Egypt has climbed to 50: thirty Christians were killed at the St. George Church in Tanta, and 15 Christians and five police officials were killed in St. Mark in Alexandria. About 120 are seriously injured. Because Islamic suicide bombings are on the […]
Egypt: Muslim who bombed Alexandria cathedral was previously arrested for ties to the Islamic State
What do authorities think this catch-and-release procedure accomplishes? It keeps jihadis such as Abu Ishaq Al Masry off the streets for awhile, but it doesn’t do a thing to reform them. Do authorities think that if a jihadi sits in prison for awhile, or is deported, that he will suddenly realize that Islam is peace […]
Egypt: Muslim man sexually harasses, cuts throat of Christian woman on busy street
In yet another cold-blooded attempt on the life of a Christian, a Muslim man recently attempted to slaughter a Coptic Christian woman in broad daylight and in the middle of a busy street in Egypt. Reports of this latest instance of anti-Christian sentiment in Egypt began appearing Tuesday, and have since been confirmed by local […]
Islamic Projection: Why Muslims So Hate Infidels
A little known fact: when Muslims persecute religious minorities in their midst, they often justify it by projecting the worst aspects of Islam onto the “infidels.” A well-known phenomenon, “projection” is defined as “the attribution of one’s own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people.” One academic article states, “Projection allows the killer to project his […]
Egypt: After Islamic State bombings at churches, Sisi to declare three-month state of emergency
The country has struggled with the growing problem of Islamic extremism since the military coup. Perhaps Sisi’s intent in declaring a state of emergency is to give an appearance to Egyptians and the world that something tangible is being done to combat the forces of jihad that are plaguing Egypt and the rest of the […]