Al Azhar—arguably the Islamic world’s most prestigious Islamic university—continues to incite Egypt’s Muslims against Christians. Most recently the university was exposed distributing a free booklet dedicated to discrediting Christianity, chock full of direct attacks on Christianity in general and the nation’s Coptic Christians in particular. Christianity is referred to as a “failed religion,” while Islam […]
Egypt: Terrified Christians flee homes following blasphemy accusations
The comfortable, suburban Christians who are sitting in their armchairs and tut-tutting at us for being so uncharitable as to hold a Muhammad cartoon contest should take careful note of this. Islamic law asserts authority over non-Muslims. To send the signal that we will submit to Sharia blasphemy laws regarding drawing Muhammad, even if we […]
Egypt: Copts attacked, expelled because of Muhammad cartoon
On Sunday, May 24, in the village of Kafr Darwish, just south of Cairo, a Muslim mob attacked Coptic Christian homes, including by hurling stones and Molotov explosives at them. More than 10 homes were torched and damaged. This latest bout of Muslim persecution of Christians was prompted by a familiar narrative: one of […]
Egypt: Masked men open fire on evangelical church
On Sunday morning, May 31 in Senoras city, Fayum, masked men on motorbikes opened fire on an Evangelical church. Security forces guarding the church briefly exchanged fire with the assailants before the masked men fled on their motorbikes. No one was reported hurt.
Islamic State blows up natural gas pipeline in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in November 2014. “Militants blow up natural gas pipeline in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, security officials say,” Associated Press, May 31, 2015: EL-ARISH, Egypt – Security officials in Egypt say suspected Islamic militants have blown up a natural gas pipeline outside el-Arish, the provincial […]
Egypt: TV presenter gets 5 years prison for blasphemy
This is part of the ongoing struggle in Egypt between the supporters of the imposition of Islamic law, who are still numerous, and the forces of secularism. “TV presenter given 5 years imprisonment for blasphemy,” Daily News Egypt, May 31, 2015 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur): The Old Cairo Misdemeanour Court handed Saturday a five […]
Egypt: Explosive goes off next to church
A homemade explosive planted next to a Coptic Christian church was detonated around sunset on May 16. Although there were no human casualties at the St. George Church in Tamiya (Fayum governorate), as the church was mostly empty except for clergy, the church’s administrative offices and second floor glass was shattered, creating chaos and panic in the […]
Muslim man stabs and drowns Coptic Christian woman
A Muslim man stabbed a Christian woman with a knife multiple times and then threw her body into a canal last week in Egypt. The Coptic Christian woman, Gamila Basilious, was 48-years-old and married, living in the Ibrahmiya region of Minya. According to police reports, the man, Mahmoud Hassan Abdulhamid, came to her door inquiring […]
Egypt: Muslim convert to Christianity rots in prison
Bishoy Armia Boulous, formerly known as Mohammed Hegazy, an apostate from Islam in Egypt,remains imprisoned on charges of blasphemy related to his conversion to Christianity. Imprisoned now for approximately a year, he has been held well past the legal six month investigation period. All this time, he has been subject to physical and verbal abuse, […]
Typical Egyptian mosque sermons identical to “non-Islamic” Islamic State
On Friday, May 15, the prayer leader of Safa Mosque in the city of Mersa Matruh, west of Alexandria, Egypt, repeatedly declared that “the Islamic caliphate will return and that Jerusalem, though stolen at the hands of the Jews, will return to Muslims once again.” The mosque’s imam further spoke in tones reminiscent of the Islamic State, […]