[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] The video of Egyptian President Sisi discussing how Islamic “thinking is antagonizing the entire world” can be viewed below. If English subtitles do not appear click “CC” in bottom-right-hand corner.
Egypt’s Sisi: “We are in need of a religious revolution”
The speech that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently made calling for Islamic reform is getting quite a bit of attention, and warrants close examination. Here are the excerpts that Raymond Ibrahim posted here at Jihad Watch a few days ago, with my comments interspersed: I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have […]
Egyptian government accused of having double standards and failing to protect Copts in Libya
This is no surprise. It is in line with the fact that the churches that Muslim mobs burned in Egypt last year, and that the government promised to rebuild, are still in ruins. Even though the Egyptian government has moved strongly against the Muslim Brotherhood, there are still very many people in Egypt, and in […]
Egypt’s Sisi: Islamic “thinking” is “antagonizing the entire world”
[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] Speaking before Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry on New Year’s Day, 2015, in connection to Prophet Muhammad’s upcoming birthday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a vocal supporter for a renewed vision of Islam, made what must be his most forceful and impassioned plea to date on the subject. Among other things, Sisi said […]
Egyptian writer charged for tweet “defaming” Islam
Apparently post-Muslim Brotherhood Egypt has not discarded Sharia blasphemy laws. In any case, we are much freer and more enlightened in the West. If Fatima Naoot had been in the West, she would not face criminal charges for criticizing any aspect of Islam. She would just be excoriated as a “racist” and a “bigot,” and […]
Egyptian security forces foil jihad terrorist attack on Coptic Christmas celebrations
This plot may have been foiled yesterday, but it was unlikely to have been planned for yesterday, as Copts celebrate Christmas on January 7. In any case, it is noteworthy that the jihad plot was organized by “a 50-year-old deputy headmaster of a secondary school in the Minya governorate.” Yet again we see that […]
Egypt: Christians “pray outdoors in spite of the cold air and coming of Christmas”
“The Copts of Naga’a Rizq, Tahta, had to pray outdoors in spite of the cold air and the coming of Christmas, as the police were unable to protect them from Islamists’ attacks.” Such was the message Dr. Naguib Ghobrail, President of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights, shared on December 14 with the Minister of […]
Egypt: Churches burned by Muslim mobs last year still in ruins
Even if the army is sympathetic, it can’t do very much for the Christians: Islamic law forbids Christians to build new churches or repair old ones, so if the army helps the Christians very much, it will be faced with the return of the Muslim mobs who destroyed the churches in the first place. “The […]
Upper Egypt: Christian Copts pay 120 million Egyptian pounds in ransom money
According to Mina Thabet, founder of the People’s Initiative Party, cases of Coptic abduction and ransoming against huge sums of money are on the rise in the Minya Governorate of Upper Egypt—proving to be a lucrative “business” for “thugs and terrorists” of the Islamic persuasion in an area that is “at an all-time low and […]
Muslim US naval engineer allegedly gave agent info on how to sink carrier
“During their first meeting in a park in Hampton, Va., Awwad explained to ‘Yousef’ that he intended to use his position to obtain military technology for use by the Egyptian government, including but not limited to, the designs of the USS Gerald Ford nuclear aircraft carrier.” Why he would think that the current Egyptian government […]