A happy update on this story from IRN News, with thanks to a tea-loving snail:
An Egyptian Christian was released from mental hospital following international pressure over his five-month forcible commitment to the mental hospital, and being charged from apostasy from Islam, Compass Direct has informed.Gasir Mohammed Mahmoud was released on 9th June 2005 from the El-Khanka Hospital for Mental and Neurological Health in Cairo, Egypt.
Mahmoud was adopted and raised by a Muslim couple who were shocked last December after finding out that he had converted to Christianity two year before. Afterwards, his father appealed to local Muslim sheikhs prompting them to issue a death sentence against his son for apostasy.
However, his mother appealed to local state security police to protect her son from being killed, which resulted in Mahmoud's subjection to seemingly endless rounds of interrogation and a series of arrests.
Initially following his arrest, Mahmoud expressed that he was questioned "in a decent way" in the presence of state security officer Mohammed Amar. However, when he was transferred to a different official, who was accompanied by two Muslim sheikhs, they tried to convinced him to re-convert to Islam again.
After eight days, eating only the food that other fellow-imprisoned people shared with him, he was sent to Suez Security Directorate. After four days he was released.
His first footsteps led to an evangelical church where he asked for another copy of the Bible, since his was destroyed: "But they were afraid," Mahmoud said, "and refused to give me a Bible."
When he returned home, a messenger was already waiting for him telling him to meet Mohammed Amar again. During the next set of interrogations, when asked why he went to church; Mahmoud said he could not stop himself from going there.
"So he started to torture me, to pull off the nails of my toes," Mahmoud said. "Now I'm still not able to wear shoes because of the pain."
This torture continued for a further 18 days, and included stripping him naked and dousing him with ice-cold water over and over...
The love of Allah in action.
"So he started to torture me, to pull off the nails of my toes," Mahmoud said. "Now I'm still not able to wear shoes because of the pain."
This torture continued for a further 18 days, and included stripping him naked and dousing him with ice-cold water over and over...
Where's Irene Khan from Amnesty International?
They are already rampaging through the streets in Western capitals chanting "Death to Islam" and "no more bible desecration!"
Oh wait...
That kind of thing only happens on the Muslim side, and usually when the story is completely untrue...
Few!!!
I was worried there for a second...
I swear its amazing how powerful the Christian conviction is. This goes on throughout history and I know it drives Muslims crazy when they cant break someone. I mean all they want these people to do is deny Christ and accept Islam under threat of death and torture and they cant do it. It must really bother them when the Christian forgives them after they torture him.
I'm sorry, was this apostate imprisonned at Gitmo? Funny, I don't see the masses rising up over the torture of this victim. Perhaps it was because he requested a Bible, rather than a Qu'ran? It would seem the US is not the dog with the most fleas....
At least our $billions of "AID" to Egypt each year is used for worthy purposes, right?
This is a very very brave man, I would swap all 1.85 million Muslims in the UK for this one person. Come on Tony Blair it makes sense, make this offer to Eygypt.
I agree with Daffersd -- This is the kind of immigrant we need to get from Muslim lands -- no more 5th column insurgents determined to destroy our precious homelands... The refuseniks we allow in now tend to be some of the more virulent jihadists who will be killed in Muslim lands just because they want to overthrow the despots -- just because they might have their tongues removed or heads chopped, doesn't mean they're the least bit suitable for Western culture and immigration... The people truly at risk are the non-Muslims, and especially converts away from Islam... These would make valuable additions to our society, whereas the seditious Muslims we've allowed so far seem more likely to spawn terrorist and undermine our civil liberties. These are not the wretched masses yearning to be free -- they are the wretched terrorists, and terrorist enablers yearning to destroy our secular capitalist democracies and replace them with primitivism, bigotry, fascism, and violence.
Now, where is Amnesty International? Anyone? Anyone?
Amnesty International, no, is Amnesy International
Dr.Mohammed Elmasry from the C.I.C. published
a OP-ED on a Arab website that Christians are safe in Egypt and not one Jew suffered while living in an Islamic State.
He attempted to counter the Jihad style slaughter of the Coptic family in New Jersey,the bull shi* was amazing and even after the failed beheading of a Taxi driver in Windsor Ontario by a Muslim,Muslim leaders denied a Islamic link and blame in on Canada for having such a violent society that doesn't live under islamic laws that would bring peace and stop the crimes.
The Nazi Party tried this "Forced-Peace" by killing any opposition or executing potential
trouble makers that didn't meet their standards.
Pulling apostates toe nails out is obviously a way for Muslim interrogators in Egypt to express their peaceful inner struggle. Nothing to worry about.