Egypt: Islamic supremacists stab man to death for walking with woman

Ah, the glories of the new, democratic "Arab Spring" Egypt! "Suez knifing stirs fears of 'moral' policing in Egypt," from Ahram Online, July 3 (thanks to David):

Twenty-year-old engineering student Ahmed Said was stabbed to death on Sunday in the Egyptian canal city of Suez – allegedly by bearded men – while walking with his fiancée.
According to eyewitnesses, Said was attacked by three men with long beards and dressed in galabiyas – attire generally associated with religious Muslims – while walking with his fiancée near the centrally-located Arbeen Square.

"They shouted at him, demanding to know his relationship with the woman he was with," Said's father said in video testimony currently circulating on social-media networks. "And Said replied that it was none of their business."

Provoked by Said's reaction, one of the men then reportedly stabbed him between his legs. The young man was then taken to Suez Hospital for treatment before being transferred to a hospital in nearby Ismailiya where he eventually succumbed to his injuries.

The victim's brother told Ahram Online that it was not the first time for such an incident to occur in Suez.

"Another man was attacked earlier for refusing to divulge details of his relationship with the woman he was with, who turned out to be his wife," he said....

Righteous!

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Remco Kimber | July 3, 2012 12:53 PM | Reply

"attacked by three men with long beards and dressed in galabiyas"

Sure signs of Trouble Ahead,

Big Beards and Big Bellies

Herbrand | July 3, 2012 1:56 PM | Reply

Link to the ahram website is wrong.

Kinana of Khaybar | July 3, 2012 2:35 PM | Reply

Such vigilante behaviour is encouraged by the Quran, which orders that Muslims command the right and forbid the wrong, and the Hadith which states that Muslims must do at least the minimum of what they are capable of doing to enforce Islamic standards. In short, ordinary Muslims are expected to police each other's behaviour, in addition to complying with official or institutional Islamic legal authority.

PJG | July 3, 2012 5:47 PM | Reply

A red rag to a bull, saying it was none of their business. Everything a Muslim does is the business of these people. That's what it's all about!

exsgtbrown | July 3, 2012 8:09 PM | Reply

because walking outdoors with your fiancee is Un-Islamic....

exsgtbrown | July 3, 2012 8:12 PM | Reply

Islam and the ministers for the prevention of vice and the promotion of virtue strike again....they are stalking the streets looking for love and they intend to erase it....

tanstaafl | July 3, 2012 9:07 PM | Reply

No wonder our Dear Leader wants our guns.....

Bingo | July 3, 2012 10:45 PM | Reply

And it ain't even Friday.

dumbledoresarmy replied to comment from Kinana of Khaybar | July 4, 2012 3:23 AM | Reply

Yes, Nonie Darwish, ex-Muslim now-Christian, brought up in Egypt until she was about 30, talks about just this phenomenon. She refers to 'allah's enforcers'.

In her book on Sharia, 'Cruel and Usual Punishment', Chapter five, 'Life Behind the Muslim Curtain', there is a subsection entitled "Allah's Enforcers".

"under certain conditions, a Muslim not only is required to adhere to Allah's law but is also entrusted to enforce them on others right here on earth. A good Muslim cannot mind his or her own buisness since the hadith tells him, "whoever sees something wrong [that is, something Islamically forbidden - dda] and accepts it is as though he had committed it".

"In Pakistan, a liberal-minded female government cabinet member...was assassinated for not wearing a veil. The shooter reportedly said, 'I have no regrets. I just obeyed Allah's commandments'..In Gaza recently, TV female broadcasters who did not wear the Islamic head cover received death threats telling them to cover or else. That is the power of Islamic Sharia. The fear and distrust from each other is at every level in society.

"Can you imagine the power Muslim leadership and self-appointed Sharia enforcers have over the ordinary citizen? A simple fatwa labelling someone an apostate, even if that person lives in the West, becomes a death warrant entrusted to any Muslim willing to kill an apostate in the name of Allah, with the full blessing of Sharia.

"And remember, it only takes one committed believer out of the 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide to become the executioner...

"The West doesn't get it...They cannot call it 'terrorism' because the individual Muslim is not linked to Al Qaeda. But it is a special kind of terrorism that can be perpetrated under Islamic Sharia by just one individual who feels he is kiling in the name of Allah..

"A Muslim does not have to live in Saudi Arabia or Iran to fear Sharia's harsh punishments. That problem has been solved by the ingenious worldwide stranglehold of Sharia over ordinary Muslims. In the more secular Muslim states, the public must look over their shoulders not just for the official 'virtue police' who can be easily bribed, but more importantly, for fellow Muslims who might see them acting like apostates and simply kill them thinking they are doing the right thing.

"You do not need the whole population to believe this, but even if 10 percent follow Sharia literally, that is plenty of prospective killers waiting to see a violation of Sharia on the street and causing a lot of fear, suppression, distrust and chaos.

"A Muslim preacher in London once said that if a non-Muslim walks in Muslim land, either he can be sold to a slaver or a Muslim may just go and kill him. That 'religious' leader spoke about the murder of a non-Muslim like speaking about killing a bug on the ground. That is what Muslims hear day in and day out from their religious leaders.

"Do people in the West actually understand what a fatwa is and how far it can go...

"When justice is left in the hands of peole on the street, not only is it bound to be abused, but more importantly, the execution of justice is transferred to the streets and homes and not necessarily in courts. When I lived in the Middle East I rarely heard of people going to court, but I heard a lot of fear from the public and what self-appointed vigilantes can do to you. The pressure to conform to Sharia is stronger on the streets. That gives a lot of power to the Muslim religious leaders who can use the power of the fatwa to threaten people into conformity. Muslims have been turned against each other. They all must watch their backs. Distrust in the Muslim world does not only exist in the family, between husband and wife, but also between Muslims in society as a whole. People can kill each other for any reason and then lie or exaggerate claims to make it fit the allowable reasons to kill...

"So in the end, it really does not matter if a country is ruled by 100 percent Sharia, 50 percent Sharia, or 0 percent Sharia. If Muslims take the actions of Mohammed as their ultimate honor to emulate, then Sharia can be 100 percent applied wherever Muslims live..."

Cruel and Usual Punishment, excerpts from pages 145-48.

dumbledoresarmy | July 4, 2012 3:32 AM | Reply

From the article "one of the men then reportedly stabbed him [that is, this young Muslim engaged-to-be-married - dda] between his legs."

**between his legs**.

They didn't go for his neck as Mohammedan attackers often do. They didn't try to stab him in the back, or in the chest or gut.

They went for the genitals.

One wonders whether what they had in mind was *castration*.

Makes one wonder whether the *real* motivation of these 'pious' thugs might just possibly be envy/ jealousy, on top of the usual sadism and bully mind that Islam inculcates.

Albert Teague | July 4, 2012 7:20 PM | Reply

it is no wonder why so many islamic men are closet homos.

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