The mysterious disappearances of Coptic Christian women, and their subsequent reappearance as converts to Islam -- accompanied by official indifference at best -- is an ongoing human rights scandal that we have noted here before. From Compass Direct:
Three months after his 20-year-old daughter disappeared while on an errand from work, Coptic Christian Rezk Shafik Attallah remains convinced that she has been kidnapped by a former police constable.Attallah said his daughter, Marianna Rezk Shafik Attallah, left work May 30 at the Al-Ra’ay medical laboratory in El-Fayoum, 60 miles south of Cairo, to pick up a patient’s blood sample from a residential address. Neither her family nor her fiancé have heard from her since.
When she failed to return home, her fiancé, Bishoy Hosni, went searching for her at her workplace. Mohammed Salah No’man, owner of the No’man Computer Center neighboring the Al-Ra’ay lab, told him that a Muslim employee of his, Ali Mahmoud Abdel Rasoul, had kidnapped the young woman.
Reportedly Rasoul, who had been maintaining the Al-Ra’ay laboratory computers, had previously been fired from the police force for “bad behavior.”
Police Obstuction
After hearing this, Attallah filed a report with the police on the day of his daughter’s disappearance, naming Rasoul as her suspected kidnapper. But the officials on duty refused to give him the case number.
At the same time, a State Security Investigation (SSI) officer declared that Rasoul had packed up his household goods and moved 250 miles further south to Sohag, taking Attallah’s daughter with him. But he warned the young woman’s father and fiancé to stop looking for her, declaring she had left of her own free will.
The woman’s fiancé remained skeptical. “If she went of her own free will,” Hosni told Compass, “then why didn’t she come to say that [to us]?”
Soon afterwards, rumors spread in their district of El-Fayoum that Marianna Attallah had left her Christian faith and converted to Islam. But Hosni dismissed the claims, saying that during their courtship, it had been her close relationship with God and active involvement in the church that had helped bring him to a deeper understanding of his Christian faith....
Hundreds of young Coptic women disappear and are reported kidnapped each year in Egypt, but their families’ claims are difficult to prove.At the same time, security officials frequently prevent Christian parents from having contact or private access to their daughters once they have been located, instead leaving them in the custody of the Muslim “protector” who abducted them.
After all, a "dhimmi" is a "protected person."
Of course, it's always the women who are abducted. If each male of this subhuman species is to have four wives, well, you can do the math.
fascinating account from a former "recruiter" for Allah from FrontPageMag's archives:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18167
This man discusses payment for successful conversions (scaled in accordance with the prominence of the Christian family), pay-off promised in the afterlife, the involvement of senior clerics in these activities and Egyptian police complicity.
Read it all.
There are many guilty parties involved with the horrible practice of kidnapping young women and forcing them into Islam and marriage. As a woman, I think that the most despicable criminals are the mothers of the men who commit the crime. How can they not feel pity and demand justice for the young women brought into their family by violence, torn from their families, raped and held hostage? Do the mothers-in-laws ever object to this abhorrent practice? I am sure that many would regard the older women in the family as victims also. I don't. I think that Muslim women have much to answer for in regards to these kidnappings and other practices of Islam. They are a big part of the problem, with some well-known exceptions of Muslim women who continue to speak out for justice.
Egypt has so far received nearly $60 billion in jizyah -- Protection Money that the Infidel donor of such money is afraid to stop, for fear of the consequences -- from the United States alone. Why? Did Egypt need to be bribed into accepting the entire Sinai, its oilfields, its inifrastructure, all put in place by the Israelis? Did Egypt in 1979, or 1988, or 1993, or 1999, or today, show any signs of fulfilling its solemn commitments under the Camp David Accords?
No? Well what about its attitude, as demonstrated in its government-monitored and controlled press, toward the United States? Do you find great gratitude for that $60 billion? Any gratitude at all? Do you not find, instead, all over the Egyptian media, the most murderous hostility, the most venomous antisemitism (including a television series based on "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"),and the most sickening, and predictable anti-Americanism. How long should American taxpayers put up with the misreading of Islam by its rulers, who have given every indication of understanding Islam less well than many of those in the general population (a sampling of whom come to Jihadwatch), or not at all. We are under no obligation to respect their choices, to believe that they "know more" about Islam and the Middle East than most of us, simply taking in the world as it is, and making sense of it by taking into account the main fact in Egypt, as in the other Muslim countries -- the fact of Islam.
Long ago, in his "Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians" Lane noted that Egyptians would often begin the day with prayers of imprecation against the Infidels, prayers of hate. That was in the 1830s. What has changed since? A brief interregnum, when the British brought some modicum of efficiency to Egypt's government, and during the ancien regime of King Farouk, the presence of large numbers of Italians, Greeks, Jews, and Armenians helped to give a veneer of civlization to Alexandria and Cairo, wtih the Muslim masses either held in thrall, as fellahin, or whipped up by the Muslim Brotherhood to attack foreigners, Copts, and Jews. Then came the colonels, who overthrew Farouk, and primus inter pares, the bullying blustering Star of the Arab World, the deplorable Gamal Abdel Nasser. He managed to offend even that philo-Arab, that godfather of the Arab League, Anthony Eden. He also managed to split the United States, under that dimwitted "anti-colonial" John Foster Dulles, from its traditional allies England and France, over the Suez business, when the slapping-down of Nasser might have at least delayed the day of Muslim self-assertion that has become, because it can, full-fledged Jihad using whatever instruments present themselves.
Why has no one called for hearings on the nature of our aid program to Egypt, and why has not a single member of Congress cried aloud about this little fact: though Egypt is a poor country, though a small class lives fantastically well on the largesse that American taxpayers, many of them living lives far more difficult than that led by the Egyptian ruling class, are forced to supply, year after year. No aid comes from rich Arabs; it is not expected to. It is not demanded. It is the Americans and other Infidels who are now expected to supply such aid, year after year....or else. Or else what, exactly? Nothing could do as much good to getting Egypt's attention, and making America less unpopular among the Egyptian masses, then to withdraw all aid from Egypt -- not merely to threaten to cut a small sum (all it took was the threat to cut $30 million to get the Egyptian government to arrange for a new trial, and a new verdict, for Saad Eddin Ibrahim).
And here is one more thing for you to write your Congressman about. Egypt is a poor country. It recieves more than $2 billion a year from the United States. But in the last full year, 2004, for which there are records, Egypt stood third among all the countries in the world for the amount it spent on buying foreign armaments. It was third -- after China and India. Why did Egypt, a poor country, spending $7.5 billion on arms? Who threatens Egypt? Not the Sudan. Not Libya, that has just disarmed and whose ruler has other fish to fry, what with his pan-African schemes and dreams. Surely the Egyptians do not think Israel intends to attack, now that there is that "Peace Treaty."
Could it be, might it be, is it just possible that -- Egypt is preparing for a future campaign against Israel, the Infidel enemy, the once and future enemy, the enemy with which a permanent peace, according to Islam, can never be made?
Is this a question that someone can please raise in Congress? Can ask the Adminstration to explain American aid, and what the Egyptians are doing with it, and the anti-American attitudes fostered in Egypt by the government, and by the Egyptian elite, attitudes which might be lessened among the masses if they did not think, correctly, that American aid simply goes to prop up a band of thieves at the top? Can someone ask about this, please, because nearly 300 million Americans do not relish having sent $60 billion to a country whose government and people dislike or even hate us, and that do not wish us well. Is that so hard for our rulers and increasingly un-representative representatives, of both the 2-year-term and 6-year-term varieties, to understand?
Maryrose:
The mothers of the kidnapers/rapists/slavers/ghazis not only condone such acts, by many accounts, they encourage them and actively participate in the detention and brain washing activities. In a matter of fact, Muslim women play integral parts in the entire kidnapping process. Westerners and women in particular believe that Muslim women are innocent bystanders in the Jihad saga, which is quite erroneous. Despite the cattle-like status that Islam confers on women and its irrational animosity to the female of the specie, Jihadies do recognize the value of women as means to an end. Moreover, the history of the Jihad contains many accounts of women, owing to ancient Arabic martial traditions, that have played a vital supporting role to the Jihad and in certain cases a leading role in it. Muslim women could be as cruel and vile as their male kin, make no mistake about it.
Mr. Hugh:
Egypt since the Military coup of Nasser has been ruled by military men with Arabic nationalists, militant Islamists, and banana-republic-like “El General” types. What do expect from such a leadership except “sell your robe and buy a sword” policy! In a matter of fact, the embalm of Egypt’s national armament industry committee, which is tasked with the procurement, maintenance, upgrade, and assembly of imported weapons has the Quranic verse, “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies”, Surat-al-Anfaal (8), verse 60.
1) Egypt still views Israel as its biggest regional enemy and sees building the military as both a national and a religious duty.
2) It sees having such a well armed military as key to its regional standing and as a trump card: i.e. if you do not want this Army to fall to Islamists, pay up.
3) With the African droughts getting worst, Egypt’s self imposed share of the Nile water is increasingly challenged by Ethiopia, which is attempting to reclaim a bigger portion for its own use. Mubarak has alluded to what accounts to a threat of war if Ethiopia went ahead with its planned dam construction projects.
4) The military build up would be seen by Islamists as a proactive measure in the struggle with Israel, or so the government hopes that this somehow placates them.