These synagogues are not active, but are preserved as Egyptian heritage sites. However, given the virulence of Islamic antisemitism, the visceral hatred against those whom the Qur’an designates as “the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers” (5:82), they’re still targets for Islamic jihadists.
“‘Islamist groups planned to attack Egyptian synagogues,'” from Elder of Ziyon, February 15:
El Badil reports that members of “Ansar al Bayt al Maqdis”, one of the Sinai Islamist groups fighting in Egypt, have admitted to plotting to blow up synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria.
The report says that they were doing surveillance of the spots.
It further quoted security sources as saying that they woul [sic] dnot [sic] allow any such attacks and citizesn [sic] should not worry.
I have not seen this verified anywhere else in Egyptian media.
It is hard to know what to believe, as the hatred of much of Egyptian media towards Islamists has caused them to make up stories in the past. It is quite possible that they want to ensure that the Jewish world is sympathetic towards Egypt’s crackdown on civil and human rights in going after Islamists. On the other hand, the idea that Islamists want to attack synagogues is also quite believable.
None of Egypt’s synagogues have any Jewish services anymore, and they are mostly preserved as part of Egyptian heritage.
mortimer says
And after the synagogues were dynamited, then the cathedrals, then the gospel halls, then the monuments, then the ancient temples, then the pyramids. And 37 million Egyptians resoundingly said, ‘No!’
Salah says
You’re right, mortimer. Egyptians’ hatred towards Islamists is becoming more and more phenomenal. Even the Salafist Al-Nour party, who sided with the people against the Muslim Brotherhood, won’t allow their candidates to run for the next presidential elections because they know they have zero chance of winning not even a small percentage of the votes.
In Egypt, Islamist parties are dead for a long, long time. Let’s hope they’re dead forever!
mortimer says
Egyptians were hoping for more righteous behavior from so-called religious people. Instead they found taqiyya. They chose civilization instead of Islam.
ygalg says
off topic: isn’t “Bayt al Maqdis” derived from hebrew “beit Ha’mikdash” (holy temple)?
Salah says
Yes, it is. Hebrew and Arabic have a lot of similarities. I think that’s what they call “cousin languages”.
Defcon 4 says
Is there any proof that the only muslimes screaming: “Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad saya’ud” were MB members? Or that the only muslimes killing Coptic Christians are MB members?
kikorikid says
Defcon4, You got a mind like an A-10 cannon shell,
very very dense. What more proof is required, they’ve
killed and killed and burned and burned.