Though they identify themselves as Christians, the Egyptian court is having a hard time letting them be. After all, "unknown to them, their religious identity officially changed 46 years ago due to their father’s brief conversion to Islam." Welcome to the wonderful world of sharia law, where lifelong Christians wake up one day to hear: "Surprise, you're Muslim!"
"Egypt: Christian in Muslim ID case wins right to appeal," from Compass Direct News, December 2:
Arrest warrant rescinded for woman imprisoned because her father briefly converted to Islam.ISTANBUL, December 2 (Compass Direct News) – A Supreme Court judge in Egypt on Nov. 22 granted Christian Bahia El-Sisi the right to appeal her conviction for falsification of documents – a charge stemming from her official papers not identifying her as a Muslim. In addition, Judge Abdel Meged Mahmood on Nov. 25 rescinded a Sept. 23 warrant for El-Sisi’s arrest, declaring that she should be free pending a final decision. The charges against El-Sisi and her sister, Shadia El-Sisi, claimed that their marriage certificates contained false information that they were Christians. Unknown to them, their religious identity officially changed 46 years ago due to their father’s brief conversion to Islam. Investigation into the sisters’ religious status began following a visit made to their father, Nagy El-Sisi, himself in prison for forgery. Nagy El-Sisi, who had briefly converted to Islam in 1962 before reconverting three years later, obtained a forged Christian ID because there is no official means for converting from Islam in Egypt. Under sharia (Islamic law), which heavily influences Egyptian law, the sisters are considered Muslims due to their father’s temporary conversion.
Also under sharia law, apostates from Islam, which, in effect is what these women are being accused of, should be put to death.
You know what gets me about this? The sheer, gross, disgustingly awful arrogance and injustice. This isn't anything we think of as law. This is the opposite. It is what the psalmist calls 'those who devise evil by means of law'.
(It reminds me of those cases there have been, lately, in Malaysia, where someone, Hindu or Christian or Buddhist dies, and surprise! some Muslim, sometimes a family member, sometimes not, comes forward claiming - often on the flimsiest of 'evidence' or quite obviously falsely - that deceased had converted to Islam, the sharia courts rubberstamp it, deceased is given a Muslim burial and the Muslim relative, or if there is no Muslim relative, the Ummah, inherits all of deceased's property, disinheriting the family...since, of course, a Muslim's property cannot be inherited by a non-Muslim...).
Of course one must remember that the Muslims in a similarly breathtaking act of arrogance and pre-emptive backdating, are taught to believe that all humans are born Muslim, and that therefore anyone who has been raised in, or practices, any other belief system is already, in a sense, a criminal/ rebel/ traitor, an apostate from Islam, who must be made to 'revert' (not 'convert') to Islam (and if they won't 'revert' and enlist in the Army of Islam, they 'deserve' to be punished as nastily as possible, by the virtual slavery of dhimmitude, or by execution).
The same belief conveniently allows Muslims to rationalise the seizure of kafir children and young girls and their forcible Islamisation: a practice dismally common in Egypt, as in many other Muslim lands, and winked at by the government and police.
Perhaps Raymond could give us a couple of typical statements to do with the concept of Islam as everyone's 'natural' or 'birth' religion, which underlies the use of the term 'reversion'.
Why should any non-Muslim government give even one cent of 'aid', let alone sell weapons, to Egypt?
'Why should any non-Muslim government give even one cent of 'aid', let alone sell weapons, to Egypt?
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy '
or to any Muslim country..
We actually give arms to Egypt to - get this - keep out the "Palestinians" who routinely try to weasel under the border. We bought Egypt the fence that nobody who's obsessed with Israel's "apartheid" (Hussein Obama's term) wall as well. Yes, folks, we're arming a nation of Mohammed Attas. Not to mention importing them en masse into every university that has whored itself out to Saudis.