Lisa Nasim Basari, a 28-year-old Coptic Christian girl living with a very few remaining family in Minya province, Egypt, recently made a video descrying the advances of a Muslim man who has been pressuring her to convert to Islam and marry her.

According to her account, Wa’il Hassan Abdul Mu’min started to appear whenever she left the house; when she would go walking on the streets he would be there. He eventually asked her to convert to Islam and marry her—even offering her money—but the Coptic woman refused.
At that point, things took an ugly turn. Among other things, he attacked and burned portions of the grocery store she worked in, tore her clothes, and sexually abused her.
Lisa eventually went to local police to file a formal report against him, but, as she explained in the video, the police, far from interfering, actually incited the Muslim man—who appears to be affiliated with the police department—to keep harassing her.
They also imprisoned her for a time and “tortured” her into abandoning the complaint against Abdul Mu’min.
In the video, she pleas for help begging some authority in Egypt to intervene and prompt Abdul Mu’min to leave her in peace.
missizbeasley says
I’ll bet there are some dandy verses in the quran to back Wa’il Hassan Abdul Mu’min up and how he deals with… rejection.
I read a post in twitter between two muslims and one said that most muslims don’t even read “those verses” (violent ones). If this is the case, it’s a pallid reassurance.
By bringing the attention of the world onto this holy book and it’s literal interpretation etc , some muslim men might be deciding, on a ‘second read’ to put the words into action.
That would lead to all manner of ‘mischief’ in the land and an even bigger pain in the ass for the rest of us!
Peter Buckley says
How about this hadith quoted by cleric:
Charli Main says
Coptic Christians, non citizens in THEIR own land since the Muslim invasion of 642 AD. Their holy places knocked down or converted into Mosques by their new masters.
That said, it seems that there is a small Muslim element in Egypt that are trying to redress the brutality inflicted on the Copts, by their ancestors.
Salah says
This is a typical islamic behaviour. Fortunately, in the new Egypt, this is totally unacceptable. Authorities are doing their best to round up these vermins and bring them to justice. Change won’t happen overnight, but under al-Sisi, things are getting better for Christians.
wildflower says
Salah, Do you have a link to the video?
Salah says
http://youtu.be/J9A1DuWB1CU
gravenimage says
Salah, did you miss the part where Abdul Mu’min has ties to the police? Or where the local polices imprisoned and abused the victim until she dropped the complaint against Abdul Mu’min?
The authorities in this care aren’t rounding up the “vermins”—they *are* the “vermins”.
Egypt now may be slightly less horrific than it would be under the genocidal Muslim Brotherhood—but its still pretty hellish for the minority Copts there.
gravenimage says
“This care” should, or course, have been “this case”.
Salah says
In the land of Islam you’ll find vermins everywhere, including police. Nevertheless, I stand by what I’ve said: Under Al Sisi, things are getting better for the Copts. Much more better.
You don’t have to take my word for it, but I’m sure you’ll take the word of Islam’s public enemy #1: father Zakaria Botros.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/10/zakaria-botros-on-al-sisi.html
Anne says
What does one expect in a country with a rate of 90 percent female genital mutilation? Savages.
Twostellas says
We hear you and shame on those who willingly refuse to listen, especially on the American left. You abandon all our (and your professed!) principles when it comes to a real threat, and should vacate the country! Frankly, you don’t deserve to live a life of ease here and to be an American, IMO.
Please pray for this woman, and the thousands like her, these people have survived a thousand years of oppression and abuse by Islamists. Imagine that. They deserve our, the Americans, every help. And all of those who believe in freedom, justice, and human dignity. May the Islamists every step be thwarted and slowed in mire and may their names be recorded in history with ignominy.
Jaladhi says
Muslims of Egypt are no different than Muslims of Pakistan or anywhere else. In Pakistan Muslims kidnap Hindu and Christian girls and forcibly convert them to Islam and marry them and after that the parents of the girls are not even allowed to see them. The police takes no action against the kidnapper Muslims and that is the end of the story. Thus the Pakistani government is complicit in these crimes and yet no Western nation takes Pakistan to task.
The West should stop all aid to these Muslim countries where the minorities are brutalized. Alas, that is not going to happen so long as hypocrisy rules in the West – they just keep spouting that dreaded sentence “only a tiny minority of Muslims ” are like that – so we are supposed to ignore this evil and cannot demonize all Muslims. Unfortunately all Muslims are like that – just give them a chance, we seen this how many times when highly educated Muslims caught are doing terrorist acts all over the world.
Jen says
“A Pakistani Muslim NGO says that every year between 100 to 700 Christian women, “usually between the ages of 12 and 25 are abducted, converted to Islam, and married to the abductor or third party”.
“Of Pakistan’s approximate 185 million population, about 95% are Muslims – 20-30% Shia, the majority Sunni. Christians account for about 2 per cent of the total population and about the same number are Hindus.”
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2014/06/article_3177184.html/
gravenimage says
As Jaladhi and Jen point out, these terrible stories are *very, very common* in Dar-al-Islam, and are usually enabled by the police.
And we still don’t know how this story will end—Lisa Basari could be kidnapped, rapedand forcibly “married”; or her stalker could threaten to murder her family members—also very common—if she does not give in to his demands.
And clearly, the local police won’t do anything to stop it.
That we are giving boatloads of “foreign aid” to these thugs in Egypt and Pakistan and mAny other parts of Dar-al-Islam without so much as broaching the plight of Christians and other persecuted religious minorities is just indefensible.
Jen says
“It has come to our attention that there is currently an international concerted effort by muslim males to seek out Judeo-Christian females for marriage and conversion to Islam. This is a planned initiative that originated from inside the mosque and is now taking root inside the church. This is currently taking place in every nation around the world. It is being used as a method of infiltration. The stated goal is to: “form a relationship with a Christian female, marry her, convert her to Islam and raise the offspring as muslims.”
“Here is the logic: A muslim male marrying a Christian female, then converting her to Islam is not simply a numerical loss of one or gain of one. The subtraction of one from Christianity and the addition of one to Islam is a numerical value shift of two, in the balance between Christianity and Islam itself. Then, any children that the female gives birth to that would have been Christian children, will now be muslim children. This pattern would continue from generation to generation. So, the result of a single muslim male marrying and converting just one Christian female can result in a great reduction of Christians and many more muslims over a period of time. Now, consider that this same process is being utilized thousands of times. The resulting shift can be staggering.”
“We have also received numerous reports of muslim males utilizing social media as a primary method of initiating these “relationships.” Facebook is the social forum where the greatest number of reports of older muslim guys, searching out and contacting younger Christian girls has occured. There have also been several reports of older muslim males “stalking” younger Christian girls and sending pornographic material to younger Christian girls, that are often under the legal age of consent.”
http://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/beware-muslim-males-targeting-christian-girls-for-marriage-and-forced-conversion/
Mark says
This is terrible and I’m from Egypt and 50% of the Minya province in Egypt is of Coptic people, get your statistics right please.
gravenimage says
Mark, please reread the story. The story indicates that much of Lisa Basari’s own family has left Minya province, but it says nothing one way or the other about the percentage of the province that is Coptic.
And the account is from Ms. Basari herself, not from Robert Spencer.
Charli Main says
@ Jen
I´m not sure about this. Perhaps one of our experts on Islam can clear up.
While working in the Middle East, a number of the trainees I was responsible for, had married ” white Christian girls ” usually from the UK.
When I asked about this, I was told that before marrying the Muslim, the girl HAD to convert to Islam, and by converting to Islam the husband got an automatic ticket to Paradise, for being instrumental in the conversion of an infidel.
Jen says
My understanding is the same as yours- that if a female non-Muslim is to marry a Muslim, then she must convert to Islam (and the children must be raised Muslims).
I am unsure if this also applies to non-Muslim males marrying a Muslim woman. I have a disgraceful relative who married a Muslim woman and they made him convert to Islam- the children were all raised as Muslims. The Muslim woman’s family are even involved in terrorist groups from what I’ve been told. Not surprised.
Lance Risbey says
“There are none so blind as those who will not see”. If I get targeted for writing this comment, then I hope that would help the blind Westeners, the “Looney Left”, to begin to see the truth and good sense in what Robert Spencer has been telling us for years.
Spartan24 says
A Muslim man can marry a Christian or Jewish woman but the kids have to be Muslim. She will be pressured to convert from day one though.
Liberty Liz says
So is this an example of a “moderate Muslim” in post-Muslim Brotherhood Egypt?
“It’s the religion, stupid!”–it is evil to the core. There is no socially redeeming value that can be attributed to Islam and it’s long-established aggression against all other religions and cultures since its invention. What do you expect from an ideology invented by a war mongering mysogynist pedophile?