Rioting over rumors is getting to be rather commonplace in the Islamic world -- cf. the riots over the Qur'an-burning that never happened. In any case, this story also shows that the old laws of dhimmitude are still very much a cultural hangover in the ostensibly secular "Arab Republic" -- not "Islamic Republic" -- of Egypt. "Muslims torch Christian homes in southern Egypt," by Salah Nasrawi for Associated Press, November 16 (thanks to Maxwell):
CAIRO - Muslims set fire overnight to at least 10 houses belonging to Coptic Christians in a village in southern Egypt over rumors that a Christian resident had an affair with a Muslim girl, security officials said Tuesday.The officials said security forces have sealed off the village of al-Nawahid, in Qena province some 290 miles (465 kilometers) south of Cairo, to prevent the violence from spreading to neighboring towns. They said several people were arrested.
The attacks started after locals spotted a young Copt and a Muslim girl together at night inside the village cemetery, the officials said. They added that both were put under police custody as authorities investigate....
Islamic law forbids Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men. Muslim men may marry non-Muslim women, however; then, since the woman becomes part of the man's household, these laws ensure that the non-Muslim community is always declining at the expense of the Muslim community.
Clashes between Christians and Muslims occasionally occur in southern Egypt, mostly over land or disputes over church construction....
The traditional laws of dhimmitude forbid Christians to build new churches or repair old ones.
Human rights groups say attacks on Copts are on the rise, underscoring the government's failure to address chronic sectarian strains in a society where religious radicalism is gaining ground.The government insists Christians enjoy the same rights as Muslims.
They have a very nice bridge to sell you, too.
I wonder if NYTimes and the other litard MSM would ever publish this news. They bleed whenever they hear anything remotely related to Muslims but for any body else, whether, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, or any other non-Muslims who are victims of Muslim atrocities, they would just ignore it. Their definition of "all the news fit to print" is so perverted that it is beyond description.
In core Islamic texts, Muhammad says your lives and property are not safe from him unless you become a Muslim
In Sahih Bukhari, the most canonical hadith collection:
Volume 1, Book 2, Number 24:
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform all that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah."
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Similarly in Sahih Muslim, a canonical hadith collection:
Book 031, Number 5917:
...Ali went a bit and then halted and did not look about and then said in a loud voice: Allah's Messenger, on what issue should I fight with the people? Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger, and when they do that then their blood and their riches are inviolable from your hands but what is justified by law and their reckoning is with Allah.
As I keep saying, the cowardly West keeps betraying the Christians, desperate to be on the good side of their Muslim oppressors, abusers, rapists, murderers and destroyers.
And Muslims are raging concerning the "reverted" women who are being imprisoned and brainwashed by the church. "How long can this go on?"
The government insists Christians enjoy the same rights as Muslims.
Not in Egypt nor any other Muslim dominated country.
No Muslim-majority country doubts its full citizens' right to oppress and brutalize minorities. That the Egyptian security services encouraged some of this Christian-baiting is all the more reason for non-Muslim majorities in the USA (including apostates from Islam) to mistrust Islam.
I can't understand how any islamic republic can be a member of the United Nations. My understanding is that islamic republics now make up the largest voting bloc in the U.N.