“A few days earlier, on 5 January, security forces discovered the bodies of a Coptic couple, Gamal Sami Guirguis and Nadia Amin Guirguis, stabbed to death in their home as they slept, in Monufia Governorate, northern Egypt, about 85 km from the Egyptian capital.” The Muslim killers may consider their Christian victims kuffar harbi, infidels […]
Video from Egypt: Muslim slaughters Christian because he was selling alcohol
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHoNhKDZKo] More on this story: A Muslim man crept up behind a Christian man and slit his throat, killing him in Alexandria, Egypt, on the evening of January 3. Adel Suleiman, 48, the Muslim man who committed the murder, did so because his Christian victim, 45-year-old Joseph Lam‘i, owned a shop that sold alcohol, […]
The Specifics of Sharia’s Savageries
Although Western media regularly claim no “motive” for many of the Islamic attacks on non-Muslims, many are by now at least vaguely aware that the Muslim perpetrators rely on generic Islamic teachings that foster hostility for non-Muslims. Yet often overlooked are the very stringent and detailed Islamic rulings behind many terror attacks. Take the recent […]
Egypt: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” cuts Christian shopkeeper’s throat
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “Egyptian Christian Shopkeeper Murdered In Suspected Sectarian Attack,” by Mark Woods, Christian Today, January 5, 2017: A Christian shopkeeper has been murdered in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in a suspected sectarian killing. According to International Christian Concern (ICC), Youssef Lamei was smoking a pipe […]
Christian Worship Is ‘Worse than Murder and Bloodshed’
For an idea on why Egypt’s Coptic Christians and their churches are constantly under attack—most recently last Sunday, when a church was bombed, killing at least 25 Christians—one need merely listen to the words and teachings of some of the nation’s Muslim preachers. Take Dr. Ahmed al-Naqib, for instance. He has studied at the best […]
Egypt strengthens ties with Hamas
The decision to “strengthen ties with Hamas” bears troubling implications despite the “anti-Islamic State campaign” excuse, particularly regarding Egypt’s relations with Israel. Egypt’s strengthening of relations with Hamas suggests that Egypt is heading in a direction opposite to the one that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi indicated when he called for Islamic reform. It is also […]
Egypt: Christians still denied churches while government opens 10 mosques every week
One week before the bombing of St. Peter’s cathedral chapel which left at least 25 Christians dead, hostility for Christian churches was being shown in the usual, less spectacular way. Egyptian authorities and politicians held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on Islam, in the village of Naghameesh, Sohag. Those present […]
Islamic State threatens Egypt with “volcano of jihad” for executing jihad murderer
See, any pushback, any resistance to the jihad threat is taken by Islamic jihadis as a new provocation. They will throw it up at those who are resisting as being the cause of more jihad: Because you have executed our man, or Because you want to limit Muslim immigration, or Because you have bombed our […]
Islamic State claims responsibility for church bombing, Egypt says bomber was Muslim Brotherhood supporter
The bomber could have been both a Muslim Brotherhood supporter and a supporter of the Islamic State. Although rivals, the two have the same outlook and goals, and the bomber was from one or the other, as I explained here. “Islamic State claims responsibility for Egypt church bombing that killed 25,” Associated Press, December 13, […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Muslims Bomb Cairo Coptic Cathedral
“What have they done to deserve this?” They were Christians. My latest in FrontPage: As the Divine Liturgy was ending Sunday morning at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, there was, in the words of one man who was there, a “shattering explosion like nothing I had ever heard before.” The latest reports indicate […]