The war on Egypt’s Christian Copts and most indigenous inhabitants continues.
Most recently, five “unidentified persons” kidnapped yet another Copt at gunpoint, Mr. Marcos, a 52-year-old pharmacy owner in Sohag, Upper Egypt.
This scenario of Coptic Christians—men, women, and children—kidnapped and held for ransom has become commonplace in Egypt, especially in the more rural south.
Soon after Friday mosque prayers, and according to eyewitness reports, the people of the region in Sohag were shocked to find a car pull up in front of the pharmacy and open live fire on it, before the assailants raided it and drove off with the kidnapped owner.
According to witness, the hail of gunfire created “panic” and “distress,” especially among the women and children of the area. Residents also indicate that this attack could not have originated in the village, but was likely plotted and carried out by outsiders.
A day after the kidnapping, friends and family said they still had not received any phone calls asking for ransom money, or any other indicators for motivation.
However, based on abundant precedent, including the fact that Copts—especially those perceived to have money—are regularly abducted for ransom money in Egypt, it is almost certain that the call is forthcoming.
Jay Boo says
Soon after Friday mosque prayers
Once again Muslims prove that Islam is NOT a religion.
ISLAM is a bloodsucking PARASITE.
Salah says
During the Muslim brotherhood rule, Morsi and his thugs almost succeeded in depriving the security forces of their best elements. But things are changing in Egypt. The security forces are getting better by the day and in most cases the culprits are caught and brought to justice.
Will Doohan says
So kidnapping girls in Nigeria is an international problem that must be acted on RIGHT AWAY because Michelle Obama became aware of it,; while at the same time the continuing gross violations of Human Rights in Egypt, Pakistan and other ‘Islamic’ countries is ignored and whitewashed because ‘Barry’ Obama and the Democrats choose to look the other way when Muslims do anything evil.
dumbledoresarmy says
It is up to us, then, when the subject of the kidnapped-by-jihadis Nigerian Christian girls comes up in conversation, to make sure that the people we are with are *told* about the ceaseless kidnapping and force- “conversion” of Coptic Christian children by Muslims, in Egypt – which has been going on since forever – and the Muslim kidnapping (usually followed by rape, and then “marriage” to a Muslim rapist, or sale as a sex slave) of Christian and HIndu girls and women in Pakistan, which has also been going on for years and years and years. And we must point out that in Islamic Egypt up till now and also in Islamic Pakistan the authorities normally do *nothing* to stop it, and that they side with the kidnapper-rapists and force-“converters”.
We have to tell them that if you’re a Pakistani Christian and the local Muslim landlord/ head thug comes to your house with his armed thugs and drags your 13 year old daughter out and stuffs her into his car, declaring that he’s going to “purify” her by *raping her and making her his concubine and ‘converting” her to Islam…there’s NOTHING that can be done. Because the police, the judiciary and the government are all on *his* side.
We can also, if we feel inclined, tell our hearers about the devshirme – the forcible seizure and Islamisation of a “tribute” of boys and girls from among the dhimmi populations of places like Greece and Serbia and Bulgaria, during the days of the Ottoman Empire. The boys were force converted, brutalised, and became janissaries; the girls vanished into the harems to be used and abused as sex slaves.
Thus, we can have a go at getting people to see that this latest kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria is part of a *pattern* – that it is *typical* Islamic practice, both historic and contemporary.