Will the international media and Barack Obama now excoriate Ibrahim Issa for “blaming all Muslims for the crimes of a few,” which is their knee-jerk accusation to anyone who dares suggest that Islamic sacred texts contain incitement to hatred and violence? Will an investigation be opened into “Islamophobia” on Egyptian television? “Egyptian TV Host Ibrahim […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian arrested for “blaspheming” against Muhammad
A 26-year-old Coptic Christian man and his fiancé were arrested yesterday on the accusation that they blasphemed against the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, and his child-bride, Aisha, on Facebook. When news, or the accusation, that Michael Munir had posted something offensive concerning Muhammad, dozens of Muslims surrounded his house in the village of Dimyana in […]
Muslim Brotherhood calls for “long, uncompromising jihad” days after meeting with State Department officials
Is this what they discussed at the State Department — what would need to be done to overthrow al-Sisi? “Open Jihad Declared in Egypt Following State Dept. Meeting with Muslim Brotherhood-Aligned Leaders,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 30, 2015: The Muslim Brotherhood called for “a long, uncompromising jihad” in Egypt just days after […]
Sisi Revisits ‘Egypt’s Identity Crisis’
[FrontPage Mag, via RaymondIbrahim.com] Of all the recent calls for reform made by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, perhaps most adamant has been his insistence that all Egyptians—Muslims and Christians—see themselves first and foremost as Egyptians. This came out very clearly when he visited the St. Mark Coptic Cathedral during Christmas Eve mass. Then, he […]
Video: Robert Spencer on Sun TV on the advance of Islam’s blasphemy laws in France, Belgium, Egypt — and Facebook
Yesterday, on my regular weekly Jihad Watch segment on Michael Coren’s The Arena. Video thanks to Aloha Snackbar 01.
Obama State Department hosts Muslim Brotherhood leaders
After the recent speech al-Sisi made calling for a reevaluation of the aspects of Islamic thinking that are “antagonizing the entire world,” the State Department should be working closely with him on strategies for teaching against jihad violence and Islamic supremacism in Muslim countries. Instead, it is meeting with his opposition, which is dedicated in […]
Egyptian poet goes on trial accused of contempt of Islam
Clearly post-Morsi Egypt is still full of people who believe in Sharia blasphemy laws. In the enlightened West, we don’t have blasphemy laws. If someone expresses what Leftists and Islamic supremacists think of as “contempt for Islam” here, the only thing that happens is that you’re excoriated as a racist and bigot, and shunned by […]
Egypt’s Islamic authority denounces new Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoon
“We denounce violence and respect freedom of opinion. But the other side has to understand that we love the Prophet Mohammed.” Noted. And there are plenty of things that I love also, and I don’t demand that everyone else respect my sensibilities; I put up with occasionally being offended as the price of living in […]
Egypt: Student gets three years for insulting Islam
In the enlightened West, Karim al-Banna would never have been sentenced to prison for insulting Islam. He just would have been excoriated as a racist, bigoted Islamophobe, and shunned by all decent folk. As the global jihad fire spreads, this becomes increasingly absurd. “Egypt student gets 3-year jail term for atheism,” AFP, January 11, 2015: […]
Egypt: More Christian girls continue to be abducted, complete indifference from local authorities
Yet another young Coptic Christian girl, Sabrine Mushir, has been kidnapped in Egypt, from the village of Dalga. Coptic activists are complaining that not a single person from among the authorities and security apparatus has done a single thing to try to find the hapless girl, adding “If this was the daughter of one of […]