An important press release from Coptic Solidarity: WASHINGTON, March 7, 2013 — Secretary Kerry met with Egyptian President Morsi last week, announcing that the US will give Egypt $250 million in aid. While applauding continuing economic support to the suffering people of Egypt, Coptic Solidarity expressed deep concern that US foreign assistance be used to […]
Egypt: Two Christian boys convicted of desecrating Qur’an, but quietly released
“By issuing a guilty verdict in near secrecy on Feb. 4 — the ruling came to light only the past week — and declining to hand down prison time or a fine, the judge seems to have averted foreign criticism while quelling the anger of Muslim villagers.” “Two Egyptian Boys Convicted of Desecrating Koran, but […]
Al Azhar Scholar: Christian Copts Will Pay Jizya
During a recent interview, Dr. Mahmoud Shu”˜ban, a professor at Al Azhar University, made clear that the Copts, Egypt’s Christian minority, will pay the jizya“”what is often referred to in the West as an Islamic “poll tax.” According to the Al Azhar professor, “If non-Muslims were to learn the meaning of “˜jizya,” they would ask […]
Up to 100,000 Christians have fled Muslim Brotherhood Egypt
These Christians must be misunderstanders of Islam, who don’t realize that Sharia is benign and completely compatible with Western principles of human rights. “Thousands of Christians flee religious persecution in Egypt,” from the Voice of Russia, March 5 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Life for Christians under the government of Mohammed Morsi in Egypt […]
Kerry says US releasing millions in jizya to Egypt
Hey, somebody has to pay for cracking down on opposition protestors, oppressing Christians, and unleashing Sharia morality police on the populace. All that doesn’t come cheap. “Kerry says US releasing millions in aid to Egypt,” by Matthew Lee for the Associated Press, March 3 (thanks to Benedict): CAIRO (AP) “” U.S. Secretary of State John […]
Egypt: Muslim cleric calls Morsi a “Zionist” who shares security interests with Israel
This is the kind of pressure that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood President is under to discard the Camp David Accords and go to war with Israel. And being an enthusiastic imbiber of Islamic antisemitism himself, Morsi is likely to be quite susceptible to such pressure. “Mursi is a “˜Zionist” who shares security interests with Israel: Egyptian […]
Sharia in action in Egypt: Islamic morality police unleashed
“Pundits and politicians are already ringing the alarm bells. The common refrain you hear in the US: The Middle East is being overrun with religious radicals bent on oppressing women and destroying Israel. That is nonsense, of course.” — Reza Aslan “Egypt unleashes Islamic morality police force,” by Katerina Nikolas for the Digital Journal, March […]
Sharia in action in Egypt: Two Christian children, ages 9 and 10, face jail on blasphemy charges
As Egypt rapidly becomes the Islamic supremacist Sharia state that the Muslim Brotherhood has always wanted it to be. This story shows how wildly dishonest are the claims of Muslim apologists in the U.S. that Sharia is benign and fully compatible with Western laws. “Egypt, two Coptic Orthodox children aged 9 and 10 risk jail […]
Interfaith Outreach in Egypt: Muslims throw firebombs at police, try to storm church in search of woman suspected of converting to Christianity
Muhammad said: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. Yet Muslim spokesmen such as Harris Zafar, Mustafa Akyol, Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz (among many others) have assured us that Islam […]
Egypt: Opposition leaders refuse to meet with Kerry because of U.S.’s pro-Muslim Brotherhood stance
Egypt’s Rose El-Youssef magazine boasted in a December article that six highly-placed Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators within the Obama Administration had transformed the United States “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.” “NSF leaders refuse to meet Kerry in protest […]