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Egypt: Muslim mobs prevent Coptic church from constructing services building, even though church has legal permit

Sep 4, 2014 11:54 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Egypt-Christians-APFour years ago the Coptic Church of St Abram in Shubra al-Khaima received a permit to build an additional “services building.”  And for the same four years, seven “thugs”—in the words of the Arabic language report—have been preventing the church from building the services building, including by mobilizing the areas Muslims to demonstrate against, and threaten, the church.

According to Fr. Bayman, “after suffering many long years,” on June 2, 2011, the church managed to acquire the necessary permit to build the adjacent building; but then the next obstacle presented itself in the persons of the aforementioned seven “thugs” who constantly harass, and incite Muslim mobs, against the church, whenever it tries to exercise its right to build the services building.

Sharia, or Islamic law, forbids the building of new churches or the renovation of existing churches.  The fact that the building the church is trying to build is technically not a church but a services building does not seem to have impressed local Muslims who are determined to see no augmentation to the “infidel” place of worship.

Local and national authorities have done nothing to help the Church of St. Abram, despite constant pleas, and despite the fact that the church is in the legal right to build.

Desperate, Fr. Bayman just wrote to President Sisi imploring him to intervene.

Sisi received great support during the anti-Muslim Brotherhood revolution from the nation’s Coptic community—evinced by the “retribution” meted out by Brotherhood sympathizers and others, which culminated in the destruction of dozens of churches in Egypt–and many have high hopes in him.

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    Part of the Islam Effect is that the law and order are sidelined and defeated (as in Rotherham UK, or ‘Rotherhamabad”). The law that operates is the Sharia of the local Islamic thug baron.

  2. GP says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    The Muslim Brotherhood is alive and well in Egypt, and the mosque terror mills around the world keep pumping out hate filled murderous jihadists. This must be stopped.

  3. Ayatrollah says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 7:21 pm

    They are following Islam, the one true religion, when they stop church building. This is standard Islam. I lived in Indonesia for a couple of years. The federal government has said over and over again churches can be built.

    Local believers stop them, as mandated under sharia law.

    • Mike says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 3:32 pm

      “They are following Islam, the one true religion”

      your “religion” is as phony as both your “god”, and your “prophet”.

      accursed be allah, now and forever.

  4. cliffface says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 4:45 am

    If Islam survives for 1450 years it will be a miracle but I don’t see that happening the way they are going about it.
    They better learn to respect existence or expect resistance.
    And they better start learning fast.

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