“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Egypt’s Sisi says suicide bomber behind church attack, four captured,” Reuters, December 12, 2016: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday […]
Egypt: Muslims bomb St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, murdering dozens
St Mark’s Cathedral is the “seat of Egypt’s Orthodox Christian church and home to the office of its spiritual leader, Pope Tawadros II.” Muslim Brotherhood operatives have long hated Pope Tawadros and the Coptic Christians, blaming them for the toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in 2013, and considering them kuffar harbi, infidels at war […]
Jihad bombing near Pyramids, 6 Egyptian police killed
Back in June, the Islamic State threatened to destroy the Pyramids. And in July 2015, the Islamic State’s caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said that destroying the monuments was a “religious duty.” “Cairo blast near pyramids kills 6 Egyptian police,” Associated Press, December 9, 2016: CAIRO — An explosion on a main Cairo thoroughfare killed six […]
Egypt: Muslim throws bomb at entrance of packed church
A man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers say could’ve been a repeat of the Two Saints Church attack in Alexandria, 2011, which left 23 dead, and 100 injured. The bomb was dismantled before exploding. The attack occurred during the late hours of Saturday, November […]
Top Muslim university rejects reform, stands by “terrorist curriculum”
Much of the curriculum of Al Azhar—the Islamic world’s most prestigious university, located in Cairo—is based on Islamic books written in the medieval era or earlier. These books—histories, biographies of Muhammad, hadith (words and deeds of the latter), tafsirs (Koran exegeses), etc.—are often criticized by more reform-minded Muslims for being too backwards, teaching things such […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Christian village on rumor of church opening, block road so fire trucks can’t enter
“Fanatic Muslims in the village of al-Naghameesh in Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, attacked the Copts in the village todayele Friday 25 November, on rumour that they were opening a church. A guesthouse owned by Ihab Tamer, a Coptic doctor, was burned, the façades of 10 Coptic-owned houses were damaged, and a house and […]
Egypt: Muslim police torture and murder Christian in police station
Egyptian Christians live precarious lives, at the mercy of Muslim authorities who are often eager to brutalize them, in line with their Islamic supremacist assumptions and world view — and when they do, the Christians have no recourse. “Police crime shocks, angers Egyptians,” by Nader Shukry and Rehab Gamal, Watani International, November 19, 2016 (thanks […]
Muslims may wear and pray to the Cross to deceive Christians, says Al Azhar cleric
An Arabic language video of an Al Azhar professor, Dr. Salim Abdul Galil, is instructive of how that Egyptian institution sees the relationship between Muslims and Christians. In it he discusses Koran 3:28: “Let believers not take for friends and allies infidels rather than believers: whoever does this shall have no relationship left with Allah—unless […]
Egypt: Christian children kicked out of school for refusing to wear hijab, recite Qur’an
The world “human rights community” will take little notice of this, if any. And why should they? After all, no “Islamophobia” is being committed. “Christian children KICKED OUT of school for refusing to wear hijab or recite Koran,” by Alix Culbertson, Express, November 6, 2016: CHRISTIAN children are being deprived of their education and being […]
Hillary gave visa to Egyptian jihadist to visit State Department, White House and lobby for jihad bomb plotter’s release
Hani Noor Eldin was on a “divine mission” to negotiate the release of the Blind Sheikh, who wasn’t simply a member of the terror group Gamaa Islamiya — a designated terror group since the Clinton era — but its preeminent spiritual leader, as well as the ringleader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing plot. […]