Dr. Yassir Burhami, vice president of Egypt’s Salafi party, issued a fatwa or Islamic decree last week saying that it is forbidden to hang pictures of “Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse” inside of children’s bedrooms. Burhami added on the website ana salafi (“I am a Salafi”) that “All children toys are thrown on the ground […]
Salafis return to Egypt’s mosques and media
In a move that has many anti-Islamist Egyptians concerned, the government has again allowed the Salafis to return to preaching in mosques and on television. Salafis are Muslims who profess to follow as literally as possible the teachings and habits of Islam’s prophet and his companions. Soon after the June 2013 revolution in Egypt, which saw the […]
Sinai Islamic jihadists leave note on beheaded corpse: “This is the fate of all who prove to be traitors to their homeland”
Persistent and incorrigible in their misunderstanding of Islam, these jihadists persist in thinking that “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) means “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks.” The fools! Have they been listening to greasy Islamophobes? I do hope that Fr. Dwight Longenecker is jetting over to the Sinai […]
Abbas turns down Egypt offer of “Palestinian” state in Sinai Peninsula five times larger than Gaza
Of course he turned it down. The point is not to have a “Palestinian” state. The point is to destroy Israel. No one was crying about “occupation” between 1948 and 1967 when Egypt had Gaza and Jordan had Judea and Samaria. The “Palestinians” didn’t consider Egyptian and Jordanian rule to be “occupation.” Only Israeli rule […]
Egypt: Muslim mobs prevent Coptic church from constructing services building, even though church has legal permit
Four years ago the Coptic Church of St Abram in Shubra al-Khaima received a permit to build an additional “services building.” And for the same four years, seven “thugs”—in the words of the Arabic language report—have been preventing the church from building the services building, including by mobilizing the areas Muslims to demonstrate against, and threaten, […]
Egypt’s Mufti adviser: Islamic State’s terror has nothing to do with Islam
It would be refreshing if even one of those who are condemning the Islamic State would explain how this misunderstanding of Islam spread to so many people all over the world. But they never will do so, and the mainstream media will never ask them to. “Daesh terrorist acts have no link with Islam: Mufti […]
The U.S. had no idea Egypt and the U.A.E. were going to bomb Libya
This shows how low the U.S.’s stock has fallen in the Middle East. The Egyptian government knows that the Obama Administration strongly favored the Muslim Brotherhood regime that it replaced and fought against. The Egyptian government knows that the Obama Administration aided jihadist elements in Libya. So it isn’t hard to see why they decided […]
One year after Morsi’s ouster, looted Coptic churches turn into trash dumps
The new Egyptian government had pledged to rebuild the churches, but they may face too much public opposition actually to be able to do that. After all, the Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt haven’t all vanished into thin air, and rebuilding the churches is just the kind of thing that could provoke them. “One Year […]
Egypt: Brotherhood supporters set fire to butcher shop
Supporters of the “terrorist” Muslim Brotherhood group, report Egyptian media, set fire to a butcher shop Saturday evening in Aim Shams, a suburb in Cairo. The reason for this latest Brotherhood arson attack is that the owner of the shop objected to one of the Brotherhood’s protests. Three of the Brotherhood’s supporters were detained by […]
Morsi’s wife threatens to publish letters from Hillary Clinton, exposing “special relationship” between Muslim Brotherhood and Obama Administration
The wife of former Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi is the latest Muslim Brotherhood “insider” to threaten to expose the special relationship between Morsi and the Obama administration—a relationship the latter insists never existed. Nagla Mahmoud, Morsi’s wife, is reportedly angry at some statements recently made by Hillary Clinton, including that Morsi was “naïve” and “unfit […]