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Egypt: Islamic supremacists step up kidnappings of Christian women

Apr 18, 2014 10:15 pm By Robert Spencer

egyptian-christians-persecuted“It’s pervasive; police at the local level are not stopping the abductions.” This is because all too many police at the local level are Muslims who sympathize with these kidnappings, and believe that it is perfectly justified for Muslims to seize Christian girls and either rape them as “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3) or force them to convert to Islam, which they believe will be better for them anyway. “There is no compulsion in religion,” says the Qur’an (2:256), but what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. After all, the institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam — even though their conversions were obviously coerced, their captors made them say that they were converting freely, and the captors probably believed that themselves. After all, the journos could have chosen to be killed instead.

“Rate of Christian girls abducted and attacked by extremists on the rise in Egypt,” by Perry Chiaramonte, FoxNews.com, April 18 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Young Christian women are facing a greater risk of being kidnapped by extremists, tortured, and even forced to convert to Islam since the Arab Spring ended in 2011.

This year already has seen a spike in the incidents, according to a report by the non-profit advocacy group International Christian Concern. It has been estimated by the ICC and other watchdog groups in the region that there have been 500 reported cases of young women being attacked by Muslim men since 2011, but unreported cases could send the figure much higher.

The girls are often assaulted, raped, kidnapped, forced to change their faith and sometimes killed, the ICC said.Making matter worse, nothing is being done by local authorities to prevent it in provinces across Egypt, according to officials from both the ICC and the Clarion Project, a US-based non-profit think tank and advocacy group.

“Not only are they turning a blind eye, they are often compliant,” Issac Six, a spokesman for the ICC told FoxNews.com, citing one incident in which a father was assaulted by an officer for asking too many questions about efforts to have his abducted daughter returned.

“It’s pervasive; police at the local level are not stopping the abductions. There needs to be more pressure from the top,” he added. “We have seen cases before where we’ve seen victims returned when the police put pressure on the kidnappers. We know it’s possible, unfortunately, the police are often complacent.”

Six added that the problem is largely ignored by the international community and that the U.S. needs to be more vocal about the issue in its dialogue with the Egyptian government.

One reported incident occurred in the city of Luxor as recently as February when 15-year-old Amira Hafez Wahib attended a morning prayer service at a local church, according to the study from ICC. Amira had asked her mother if she could go to a store near the church to buy an item. Her mother let her go but urged her to hurry right back.

But Amira never returned and is still missing.

The next day, Amira’s family went to the local police to report she had vanished.

“We received promises from the police here that they would arrest the accused and return Amira to her family, but there is not any positive step from them till now,” Rafla Zekry Rafla, an attorney handling the case, was quoted as saying.

The girl’s family believes that they know who her kidnapper is– a Muslim man, named Yasser Mahmoud, a soldier who was at one time assigned to protect their church. Mahmoud had tried to abduct Amira a few months earlier at a Christian store near the church where she worked.

The family immediately tracked down where the man lived with his family. Relatives told Amira’s parents that they had not heard or seen from Mahmoud since the same day that their daughter disappeared.

Another recent incident occurred on March 9 when a young girl was abducted in front of her school. The family went to the local police for help in locating her.

A few days later, the father was returning home when he was approached by two masked men on a motorcycle. He was stopped by the pair, who attempted to convince him to give up the search for his daughter.

He was told to “just forget her” and had his life threatened. The two men said they would also abduct his other daughters if he continued his search.

Things got worse for the family, whose identities have not been made public due to safety concerns, when the father went to the Civil Status Authority to get a copy of her birth certificate only to discover that her name had been changed and her religion had been changed to Islam.

The ICC report also suggests that more minor incidents are on the rise as well, such as young Christian women wearing crosses in public having them violently ripped off their necks.

Experts point out that the rise in the abuse against young Christian women is likely due to societal misogyny and Islamist indoctrination as well as the recent loss in government power by the Muslim Brotherhood….

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Comments

  1. Jay Boo says

    Apr 18, 2014 at 10:57 pm

    Islam is not a religion.
    Muslims have no religion.
    NONE

    What filth that crawls out of this cesspool of Islam during Friday prayers.
    It perches in the minaret stalking truth like Muhammad’s blasphemy buzzard.

  2. Brian Hoff says

    Apr 18, 2014 at 11:49 pm

    The Clarion Project is than far rightwing group so what they record isnot to be taken as accurate infro.

    • bill says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 10:33 am

      across Egypt, according to officials from both the ICC and the Clarion Project, a US-based non-profit think tank and advocacy group.
      So both these organisations are far right according to you. I suppose you only credit left wing pro Muslim organisations. BTW your post contains 3 errors

    • CJ Mccoy says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 11:36 am

      So are you saying that this is a lie?? Are you saying that the children are not being kidnapped and forced to convert or raped???? Sir I think you are wrong about that it is reported a lot of different organizations. These young girls are in harms way and should be taken care of, not told that this is not the right amount!!!!! Stop all this silliness and protect these children!!!!!

  3. Salah says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 12:26 am

    It’s sad, but things are getting better by the day. Police are overwhelmed because of the Muslim Brotherhood thugs rioting day in and day out.
    Next month, Egypt will have a new president, probably al-Sisi. It’s a huge responsibility especially with the U.S. , the E.U. , Turkey, Hamas, Iran and Qatar backing the MB thugs. I trust this man.

    • Jay Boo says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 11:28 am

      The U.S. , the E.U politicians and MSM should be ashamed for running interference.
      They are more interested in weakening Putin and exposing Russia’s underbelly to infiltrating jihadi groups in the Crimea than to stopping Christian persecution in Egypt.

      • Jay Boo says

        Apr 19, 2014 at 11:36 am

        Remember Beslan, Obama administration & MSM
        Morsi’s mob is no different
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csr9TPGPoxs

        This is what Putin & al-Sisi are fighting against with little help from one-sided leftist media.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 10:16 am

    Calling hell
    “Pick up the phone Muhammad”

    “Have some shame and ABROGATE all of Islam’s filth, Muhammad”

  5. Bukkdem Jizheads says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 4:48 pm

    It’s simple math and sex that fuels Muslim aggression, and especially kidnapping young girls. Polygamy renders a society full of sexually frustrated drones, and conquest is their only means of gratification with a woman rather than a beast. This is their way since 1300. Polygamy must be condemned by our frightened Pope, academics, philanthropies, the EU, the UN and the US. There is prosperity and relative peace in Muslim Turkey (no oil), where polygamy was outlawed in 1920’s by Attaturk. Religion actually has nothing to do with it… it’s a hideous family system and even Mormons proved that in El Dorado, TX.

    Why is it that I’m the only one who sees this?

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