TV host Mataz Matar demanded that El Shehaby withdraw: “My son watch out, don’t be fooled, or fool yourself thinking you will play with the Israeli athlete to defeat him and make Egypt happy. Egypt will cry; Egypt will be sad and you will be seen as a traitor and a normalizer in the eyes […]
Insult after Injury: Egypt’s Muslim-Christian ‘Reconciliation Meetings’
We often hear about Egypt’s Christians being attacked by Muslim mobs. What we rarely hear about is what happens afterwards. Are the culprits imprisoned? Are the victims compensated? Do authorities take measures to help prevent such attacks from happening again? While the acquainted reader may correctly assume no, the anatomy of what always takes […]
Clash of civilizations: Egypt vs. Germany in Olympic beach volleyball
Allah granted the shameless near-naked harlots victory over the modest women of Islam, 2-0. No doubt the Jews are responsible. “The contrasting cultures brought together by the Olympics: Perfectly timed photograph showing Egyptian and German volleyball players highlights the divide between teams,” by Julian Robinson, MailOnline, August 8, 2016: It is a fast and furious […]
Egypt: Christian’s home burned by Muslims, told to withdraw complaint or “there will be blood”
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Christian girl recalls horror when Islamist radicals attacked and burned their home in Egypt,” by Hazel Torres, Christian Today, August 6, 2016: Imagine the horror that gripped members of a Coptic Christian family in Egypt when they saw a mob of angry Muslim radicals attacking and burning their home in […]
Egypt: After years of torture and harassment, Christian convert returns to Islam
Hegazy has been harassed, tortured, and unjustly imprisoned. No one can say he would not break under such circumstances. And since Islam mandates that those who leave Islam be executed, his years of harsh treatment are, paradoxically, mild compared to what he would have gotten had Egyptian authorities decided to follow Islamic law scrupulously. But […]
Coptic bishop: Egypt’s Christians attacked ‘every two or three days’
After the latest round of attacks on Egypt’s Christian minority—which saw at least one Copt stabbed to death and many Christian homes and a church burned—Coptic Bishop Makarious of al-Minya, the region where many of the attacks on Christians take place, was interviewed on television. Although Church authorities in Egypt are regularly diplomatic and sensitive […]
Egypt: Top Islamic institution preaches “religious freedom” to West, while supporting death penalty for apostates at home
In a statement titled, “The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Calls on Al Azhar’s Sheikh to Renounce His Remarks Which Contradict Religious Freedom and Support Violent Extremism,” the institute blasted Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb’s recent remarks concerning apostasy, first reported in the English here. Though Tayeb is often portrayed as a “moderate” and “reformer,” the […]
Islam is both a religion and polity, says leading Egyptian cleric
What is the role of Islam in Muslim society? Is it just a religion to be practiced privately, as Christianity is understood in the West? Or does it call for theocracy—governance according to the laws derived from it, also known as Sharia? Dr. Ali Abdel Raziq, whose 1925 book arguing against the caliphate caused an […]
Muslim mob of 5,000 screaming “Egypt is Islamic” attacks Christians for building church
Where is Franciscan Action Network spokesman Jason L. Miller on this? Too busy writing trumped-up stories about “Islamophobia” to examine actual religious persecution? Of course, in this case the perpetrators are Muslims, so if he were to speak out too strenuously about this, he would end up in dutch with the U.S. Conference of Catholic […]
Ramadan in Egypt: Muslims kill Christian priest with hail of bullets outside church
Did Fr. Raphael provoke them in some way? Did he draw Muhammad? Did he opine that Islam was not a religion of peace? Or could his murder simply have been provoked by who he was, as an Infidel, a Christian priest? Why are Church leaders in the West so uniformly silent about the Muslim persecution […]