Due to the difficulties Egypt’s Coptic Christians experience in trying to build—or even repair—churches in their homeland, some end up meeting in Coptic homes to worship (and often are attacked for it), while others worship out in the open. This was the case for the Christians of Nag Shenouda, in Sohag City. For 44 years they […]
Egypt’s Mufti going to Europe to fight “radical Islam” by meeting with non-Muslims
The Mufti of Egypt has shown himself to be a disingenuous purveyor of deception rather than reform twice recently — see here and here. And here again we see it: if he is really going to “clarify and explain the facts about ‘true Islam,’ why isn’t he meeting with Muslims? At least according to this […]
Egypt: Christian arrested for offending Muslims, witch-hunt for 5 others
Last week, security agents arrested Gad Yusif Yunan, a 22-year-old Coptic Christian man who works as an English teacher in Nasriya village, Upper Egypt, on the charge of “contempt of religions.” He is accused of posting a 30-second video on his personal Facebook page that deals with Muslim prayers and is apparently insulting. Once local Muslims discovered it, […]
Egypt: Bombs explode near two churches on Easter Sunday
On April 12, Easter Sunday according to the Orthodox calendar, the churches of Egypt’s Christian minorities—Coptic Orthodox and Protestants—were, as usual, under attack. According to Egyptian media, three explosions took place in Zagazig vicinity on Sunday to coincide with Easter celebrations. Two targeted churches. The first explosion—which was placed under a parked car—took place near […]
Egypt: Muslims prevent Christians from praying in Coptic home
It is not enough that Muslims in Egypt prevent Christians from building or even renovating churches, but, as in other Muslim majority nations, when Christians merely meet in one of their homes, Muslims still attack and prevent them. After Muslims in Egypt rioted and engaged in anti-Christian violence at the proposition that a church be […]
Islamic State’s Sinai Province murders six Egyptian soldiers
The Islamic State continues to show its global reach and the resonance of the idea of the caliphate. “Sinai blast kills 6 Egyptian soldiers in stronghold of ISIS-linked terrorists,” Reuters, April 12, 2015: ISMAILIA, Egypt – Egypt’s military said a bomb detonated by militants killed six soldiers and wounded two others in Egypt’s North Sinai […]
Easter under Islam, Churches under Attack
As millions of Christians around the world were celebrating Easter Sunday, the Christians of the Muslim world were again under attack. The April 2 Islamic jihad attack on a Kenyan school—where the Islamic murderers made sure to slaughter only Christian students, sparing fellow Muslims—was only the most spectacular attack. On Easter Sunday itself, as some […]
Egypt’s most prominent Islamic authority issues a fatwa against AFDI’s bus ads
As Pamela Geller notes, think about all the things that Egypt’s most prominent Islamic authority is not issuing fatwas against: Islamic anti-semitism, the jihad imperative to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers under the hegemony of Islamic law, the institutionalized oppression of women in Islamic law, including even their Qur’an-sanctioned beating (4:34), the sexual slavery […]
Egypt: Muslim mob again attacks church honoring Christians killed by Islamic State
One would almost get the impression that these Egyptian Muslims haven’t gotten the message that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. John Kerry, call your office. An account of the first time it happened is here. “Muslim groups attack Egyptian Copts over church honoring Christians killed by ISIS,” by Steven Edwards, FoxNews.com, […]
Egypt’s Islamic State branch claims Sinai jihad attack that killed 18
The “Sinai Province” of the caliphate, which now has allied groups in the Philippines, Nigeria, and elsewhere. “Egypt’s Islamic State Branch Claims Deadly Sinai Attack,” Associated Press, April 3, 2015 (thanks to John): The Islamic State’s branch in Egypt has claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly attacks that killed 15 Egyptian soldiers and three […]