According to a local priest and Coptic spokesman, last Friday’s assault on a Coptic Christian church proposed to be built, with President Sisi’s permission, to honor the 21 Coptic Christians who were slaughtered by the Islamic State in Libya, was all too typical and a reminder that Islamic Sharia sentiment continues to trump the sovereignty […]
Egypt: Muslim mob attacks church honoring Christian martyrs of Islamic State
“It is not permissible for Christians to build or repair churches.” — Egyptian Shaykh Sa’id ‘Abd-al-‘Athim “Non-Muslim subjects…are forbidden to build new churches.” (Reliance of the Traveller 011.5; o119-10) “Minya church commemorating beheaded Egyptians attacked,” by Mahmoud Mostafa, Daily News Egypt, March 29, 2015 (thanks to Patrick Poole): …On Friday, scores of mostly young Muslims […]
Muslim strength decides if Christian churches stand or fall
A video recording made on December 14, 2013 of Dr. Yusuf al-Burhami, a leading cleric in Egypt’s Salafi movement, was recently publicized on Arabic media due to its controversial nature. In the video, Burhami says that “Destroying churches is permissible—as long as the destruction does not bring harm to Muslims, such as false claims that Muslims are […]
Egypt: Groom fractures bride’s skull at his mother’s request
“Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and […]
Muslims in Sub-Saharan Africa hunting down convert from Islam who fled Egypt
Muhammad said: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim […]
State Dept tweets speech by Muslim cleric who blames Mideast unrest on “world Zionism”
The people at State who are responsible for this probably didn’t see anything amiss. They probably believe much the same thing, even if they wouldn’t state it in the same lurid terms: they likely think that if Israel would just go away, peace would prevail in the Middle East. “State Department Tweets Speech by Cleric […]
Egypt: Monks lie before bulldozers to protect monastery from workmen screaming “Allahu akbar”
The road project “threatens an archaeological area that stretches around a church dating to the fourth century,” as well as the monastery’s water supply. The fact that the workmen were screaming “Allahu akbar” indicates that they were just thrilled at the prospect of harming an installation of Infidels. “Coptic monks scramble to protect ancient monastery,” […]
Egypt: Another Christian man murdered in cold blood “only because he was a Copt”
In the early morning hours of Saturday, January 31, masked gunmen stormed the home of Nabil Mahrus, a 50-year-old Coptic Christian civil servant residing in al-Arish, the largest Sinai city. In front of his family, they went up to the Coptic man and shot him several times in the head, killing him—but only after they […]
Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Libya after jihadis behead 21 Egyptian Christians
If it weren’t for Barack Obama, there wouldn’t be any Islamic State targets in Libya. If Barack Obama had his way, the Muslim Brotherhood would still be in power in Egypt, and Egypt would not have undertaken this strike. “Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Libya after 21 Egyptians beheaded,” by Ahmed Tolba and Shadi […]
Sisi vows revenge for Islamic State’s murder of 21 Christians
“Safety for you crusaders is something you can only wish for.” Note that the Islamic State is here referring to Egyptian Christians — the indigenous people of Egypt — as “Crusaders.” Their ignorance of history is in service of their claim that Christians have no place in the Middle East. Their fanatical adherence to Islamic […]