These synagogues are not active, but are preserved as Egyptian heritage sites. However, given the virulence of Islamic antisemitism, the visceral hatred against those whom the Qur’an designates as “the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers” (5:82), they’re still targets for Islamic jihadists. “‘Islamist groups planned to attack Egyptian synagogues,’” from […]
Egypt: U.S. Embassy official in contact with Muslim Brotherhood arrested
Barack Obama has been an indefatigable and unstinting supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as well as of its proxies in the U.S. Thus it is not surprising that U.S. Embassy employees in Cairo would be Brotherhood allies as well. Obama was the target of vociferous criticism during the anti-Brotherhood demonstrations last summer for […]
Egypt upholds death sentence for 14 Islamic jihadists
These Islamic jihadists are from a group that calls itself Tawheed wal Jihad. Tawheed is the Islamic concept of absolute monotheism, and jihad is the Islamic doctrine of warfare against unbelievers. Yet the one thing that Western analysts routinely discount in their analyses of jihad terrorism is the religious motivation, despite the fact that the […]
Egypt: New hijabbed comic superheroine fights “Islamophobia”
This is so great: now we have two Muslim comic book superheroines, Qahera and Kamala. Clearly some Muslims in the media business realize that Islam has a serious image problem; what they don’t realize is that comic book heroines fighting against “Islamophobia” won’t solve it. When will we get a Muslim comic book superheroine who […]
German professor: The idea that the Copts welcomed the Muslims as liberators is no longer tenable
The idea that the Coptic Christians in Egypt welcomed the Arab troops as liberators in the mid-seventh century is a staple of Islamic apologetics today, and (not surprisingly, given the abysmal state of academia today) is generally accepted among historians. However, it has always had weak foundations, and is actually yet another example of a […]
Interfaith outreach in Egypt: 26 Molotov cocktails found next to a church
Keep quiet about this! “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013. And no, it’s not cocktail hour. “Twenty-Six Molotov Cocktail […]
Egypt wars with latest jihadi group
The clashes took place in the region of Sheikh Zawid, where earlier reports had said militant groups were terrorizing the civilian population and using women and children as human shields. Sources also said that several weapon caches were destroyed or seized. Six of the eight slain were members of the jihadi organization Ansar Bayt al-Muqadis, an […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Church of the Virgin Mary in Cairo, murder a police officer
Islamic supremacists continue to blame the Christians of Egypt for the toppling of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood regime — and this has heated up again with Morsi on trial. “Cairo, Coptic Orthodox church attacked. One dead,” from Asia News, January 29 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Cairo (AsiaNews) – A group of armed men yesterday […]
Al-Qaeda to Morsi: Execute all Christians and secularists who oppose Sharia
Many of the alleged telephone recordings between ousted Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi and Muhammad Zawahiri, al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri’s brother, are becoming available on Egyptian media, and will likely be part of Morsi’s February 16 trial, dealing with his alleged conspiracies with variously foreign jihadi organizations. One call is especially telling regarding al-Qaeda’s enmity for […]
Egypt: Christians murdered for refusing to pay the jizya
20,000 Egyptian pounds is about $2,900 — giving the to the common claim from Islamic supremacists today that the jizya was merely a token tax and even lower than the amount of zakat that Muslims were required to pay. Above all, as I explain here, the jizya is a Qur’an-mandated tax meant to show the […]