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‘Milking’ Egypt’s Christian Copts dry

Apr 4, 2014 6:42 am By Raymond Ibrahim

egyptian-christians-after-protestThe Board of Inquiry in Cairo monitoring the “sectarian violence that continues to cross Egypt after the overthrow of President Morsi, has documented in a report released on Tuesday, March 25 the endemic forms of violence and abuse that continue to be perpetrated against Coptic Christians in many parts of the country, particularly in the governorates of Luxor, Sohag and Aswan.”  According to this report, “reference is made to abductions [almost always for ransom], expropriation of houses, shops looted where Egyptian Copts continue to be targeted victims.”

In other words, Egypt’s Christians are increasingly being seen and treated, in the words of some early caliphs, as “milk camels” to be milked dry of their money and possessions. (Crucified Again, p. 200)

Even the most remote, modest, and apolitical Copts are being targeted so.  Late last month, Coptic activists in Egypt called on the Interior Ministry and its organs in the Fayum district to move and rescue the monks, workers, and visitors of the ancient Monastery of Saint Makarius, which is located in the desert between Alexandria and Cairo.

Arab Bedouins have been raiding, plundering, and keeping the monastery in a constant state of duress.  Among other depredations, these raiders have especially taken up the practice of waylaying Christian travelers from and to the monastery, including those in vehicles, and robbing them under threat of gunfire.

In one incident, a monk was stopped, seized, and  had gun shots fired near his ear, before he was robbed of all the money in his possession, which was meant to be used to purchase much needed building materials for the monastery.  In another incident, the monastery’s car was stolen and returned in exchange for a large sum of money.

Considering that the Western media is silent about the most horrific abuses the Copts suffer in Egypt—such as the brutal slaughter of a young woman identified as a Christian by her cross—it is little wonder that the oppression of these remote monks is seen as beyond irrelevant.

Raymond Ibrahim is author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians

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  1. Salah says

    Apr 4, 2014 at 11:56 pm

    I hope the new president will find a way to protect Egyptian Copts from these thugs. It will take some time, but life in Egypt is getting better by the day.
    God bless Egypt.

    The Jerusalem Post
    General Al-Sissi is the best man to lead Egypt
    http://www.jpost.com/Experts/General-Al-Sissi-is-the-best-man-to-lead-Egypt-347160

  2. Betty says

    Apr 5, 2014 at 6:28 am

    often wandered how these sorry muslims made a living seeing the never work now I know they are always stealing from every Christian they come across. so their goal is to steal from and then kill the Christians how will they survive? starve or go to work. most will starve I guess because all they know how to do is stand on a street corner and preach hate and death to all non-muslims. never seen such lazy people in all my 74 years as these muslims. no work ethic at all.

  3. Julian says

    Apr 5, 2014 at 10:42 am

    The Nit-Beard self improvement book says “Fight those who believe in neither god nor the last day, who do not forbid what god and his apostle have forbidden, and do not embrance the religion of truth, until they render the tribute, by hand, in abject submission.” Chapter 9.29.

    All quite clear.

  4. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 8:16 am

    Islam: an extortion racket and crime “family” pretending to be a ‘religion’.

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