The Muslim Brotherhood international wing has reportedly sent a threatening note to several European Union states—including Britain, France, and Germany—demanding that they not recognize Abdel Fateh al-Sisi’s landslide presidential victory in Egypt. An excerpt from the statement follows: There is no legitimacy for a regime [Sisi and post-Morsi government] that has been rejected by its people, […]
New Fatwa Says Husbands Should Abandon Wives to Rapists in Self Interest
Islam permits Muslim husbands to abandon their wives to rapists in order to save their own lives—so says Dr. Yassir al-Burhami, vice president of Egypt’s Salafi party, the nation’s premiere Islamist party since the Muslim Brotherhood was banned. Burhami’s fatwa, or Islamic decree, is not altogether surprising. Earlier the Salafi sheikh said that, although a […]
Egypt: Brotherhood tries to disrupt presidential elections, so far 20 arrested
Egyptian state security have already “arrested 20 rioters belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood” in a number of cities and provinces for trying to disrupt the presidential electoral process hours after polls opened on the first day, including through banditry, as happened in the Sanuras province, or by threatening voters, as happened in the village of Dafnu. In […]
Sharia Egypt: Christian gets four years prison, $1400 fine for insulting Islam by drawing cartoon of Muhammad on Facebook
The Egyptian government is moving against the Muslim Brotherhood, but that doesn’t mean that it is jettisoning all vestiges of Sharia and adopting the freedom of speech that is a hallmark of a free and pluralistic society. Even as Sharia is not fully enforced, its provisions are known and respected by millions of Egyptians, resulting […]
Egypt: Woman kicked off TV show for expressing skepticism about Islam
Note also how fervently the unhijabbed host expresses her desire that the fullness of Sharia be implemented, “alcohol banned, and the cabarets..shut down. I am a Muslim and, therefore, I must implement Allah’s shari’a.” Will Muslim leaders in the West jet over to Cairo and explain to Riham Said that there is a multiplicity of […]
Egypt: Christian arrested for using home as church
A Coptic Christian man in Egypt has been arrested on complaints from local Muslims that, without a permit, he has converted his home into a church and is supposedly even holding religious rituals. The 55-year-old man, known only by his initial, “BH,” is a laborer in the al-Minya district in Upper Egypt, where Christians are […]
Al-Azhar Grand Imam: Arab Spring plot by West to destroy countries
Conspiracy paranoia is rampant among Islamic supremacists, but this one is especially comical: it would require Barack Obama, of all people, to be secretly plotting to destroy Muslim countries by the diabolical weapon of Islamic supremacist uprisings that he warmly supported. Ahmed El-Tayeb should recognize a friend when he sees one. “Arab spring a plot […]
The ongoing abduction of Egypt’s Coptic Christians
The war on Egypt’s Christian Copts and most indigenous inhabitants continues. Most recently, five “unidentified persons” kidnapped yet another Copt at gunpoint, Mr. Marcos, a 52-year-old pharmacy owner in Sohag, Upper Egypt. This scenario of Coptic Christians—men, women, and children—kidnapped and held for ransom has become commonplace in Egypt, especially in the more rural south. […]
Egypt: Six arrested for organizing gay party
Even in post-Morsi Egypt, Sharia sensibilities are still strong enough to lead to this arrest. Gay rights organizations, meanwhile, are still nowhere when it comes to speaking out against Sharia oppression of gays. They’d much rather denounce Pamela Geller and me for doing so. “Six homosexuals tried in Egypt for organising gay party,” AGI, May […]
Egyptian Muslim group: Democracy “theorizes the equality of Jews, Copts and Muslims and must therefore be condemned”
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (not “Magdis,” as in this article) means “Supporters of the Holy House,” which refers to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and the surrounding area. Anyway, in the U.S. we are constantly told that only greasy Islamophobes think that Islam and democracy are incompatible, despite the fact that there has not been a […]