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Egypt: Five Christian children held for blasphemy – for insulting the Islamic State

May 5, 2015 12:42 pm By Robert Spencer

copticchurchIf there is any lesson we have learned from the Garland, Texas jihad shooting at our AFDI event, it is that one must not provoke Muslims. Anyone who provokes Muslims is responsible for what those Muslims do. See how these children provoked the Muslims? They made fun of the Islamic State that has nothing to do with Islam! How hateful and Islamophobic these children were! They poked them in the eye! The responsibility is entirely on the children, for inciting this violence! “‘You are a target’: Muslim extremists terrorize Egypt’s Coptic Christians,” by Steven Edwards, FoxNews.com, May 5, 2015 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

Christians in Egypt are facing a new wave of persecution at the hands of Muslim extremists, and human rights groups fear the situation could be on the brink of exploding.

While the attacks on Egypt’s Christian community are not on the scale of persecution faced by their brethren in Syria and Iraq, the Coptics – mostly descendants of the people whose Pharaohs ruled ancient Egypt before the 7th century – say they face renewed isolation in the country.

“We are the weaker element in society, so if anything happens, we will be the first victims,” Mina Thabet, a Coptic activist and researcher at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, told FoxNews.com from Cairo.

“You are a target for extremists when no one is supporting you,” he added in a reference to the “often-sluggish” protection the Christian community says it gets from the police.

While Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has taken steps to protect Coptic Christians amid his calls for national unity, many of the latest incidents have occurred in Minya Governorate of Upper Egypt, about 150 miles south of Cairo.

The mix of poverty and limited job prospects there is typical of the social conditions Thabet says could trigger the sort of unrest in which the country’s Christians – comprising Orthodox, Catholic and some Protestant members of the faith – become central targets, just as Jews were historically targeted during pogroms.

“Not all the people would blame the Copts,” he said. “But many ordinary Egyptians have strong thoughts toward the Coptic community.”

A recent incident saw Muslim mobs in the Minya village of Nasreya descend on the homes of five Coptic students, chanting they had “insulted” Islam in a video that was circulating showing the youths praying with their Coptic teacher.

In fact, the students had been making fun of ISIS, according to Coptic activists. While police arrested the teacher and detained him for questioning over four days, the Muslim mobs threw rocks at the homes of the youths in a bid to force their parents to hand their children over to the authorities, Coptic media reports say.

Blasphemy is a crime in Egypt, but human rights activists say the authorities have traditionally used the law to persecute minorities, among them Christians.

Thabet said the children remained detained by the authorities, as were other Christians who’d been victims of Muslim assaults.

“We have five Coptic children charged with blasphemy and insulting Islam,” he said. “We still have other open cases where Christians are charged with inciting violence as if they were the perpetrators, but where they were the victims.”

FoxNews.com reported last month how a Muslim mob attacked Christians in the Minya village of al Our, which had been home to 13 of the 21 Christians whose murder by ISIS in February was captured in a gruesome video appearing to show them being beheaded on a Libyan beach.

The Muslim protesters had opposed the Christians’ plan to build a new church to honor the 21, and had pelted them with rocks as they chanted they would never allow construction to begin.

This occurred despite President el-Sisi having personally given the official permission Egyptian law requires for work on a church to proceed – in contrast to no such permission being required for mosque construction….

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  1. nicu says

    May 5, 2015 at 1:04 pm

    Muslims are pussies ! Intolerant and narrow – minded !

    Doing the worst atrocities – whining about a cartoon or their book of hate !

    • mortimer says

      May 5, 2015 at 4:52 pm

      Muslims are obeying Sharia law. Sharia law commands them to murder blasphemers and apostates with impunity. Every Muslim is obligated to participate in jihad.

      Sharia law is considered to be divine law that cannot be questioned. Only about one Muslim in 7,000 is a jihadist, but the rest give their approval to the murders.

      • ShariaUNlaw says

        May 6, 2015 at 10:25 am

        This is why sharia UNlaw does not belong in America.

    • Jerry says

      May 5, 2015 at 8:04 pm

      Thousands of Yaziddis and Christians in Iraq and Syria or the Copts in Egypt did even draw a single cartoon!

      Islam does not require cartoons and “blasphemers” to commit atrocities and genocide.

      It has been embedded in their Qur’anic DNA for the last 1400 years.

      Abolish Islam and terminate all Jihadis.

      • Peggy says

        May 5, 2015 at 9:31 pm

        Excellent point. Just their mere presence disturbs and offends the Muslims. That’s how it’s going to be in our own countries unless we fix the problem.

  2. Richie says

    May 5, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    Muslims demand to people respect their ‘religion; but they give NO respect to other religions. People need to tell Muslims respect is earned, not demanded.- theor death cult is only deserving of contempt and disgust

    • particolor says

      May 6, 2015 at 5:39 am

      I Absolutely Agree with Your comment !

  3. Don McKellar says

    May 5, 2015 at 1:52 pm

    How is the real child here — the children or the moslems? At least the children have an excuse. Islam makes socially retarded mental defectives out of adults.

    • Don McKellar says

      May 5, 2015 at 1:53 pm

      Who.

  4. TH says

    May 5, 2015 at 2:46 pm

    If there is now way that muslims can grow up and act like mature adults, which seems to be the case, then they ought to just leave the rest of humanity to go about its business asthey contrive practically anything as an offense. If they are a bunch of cry babies, that is not our fault. Some kind of apartheid would be becessary or else deportation to countries where they can live with their like. How can the rest of humanity put up with their ridiculous infantilism.? The problem is that they are infantile armed with dangerous weapons. Let’s not forget that Koemini said that “there is no fun in Islam”. They don’t even allow dogs.

  5. Angemon says

    May 5, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    “You are a target for extremists when no one is supporting you,” he added in a reference to the “often-sluggish” protection the Christian community says it gets from the police.

    Islam teaches that non-muslims must be in a constant state of oppression for refusing to acknowledge muhammad as a prophet. Muslims invent all possible reasons to attack Christians for being Christians. The police is composed mainly, if not completely, of muslims. Let me see if I can connect the dots…

  6. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 5, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    Unfortunate for Egypt, especially with Children..

    Can’t say it won’t be tried here, but most American People are now fortunately seeing through Islam’s “Religion of Peace Grand Deception” Taqiyya and Kitman Lying and Deception, and WILL respond in a very ADVERSE manner to Islam, Islamic Societies, and Muslims who even DARE to attempt to Ban , Criminalize, or Penalize ANY Constitutionally Protected Speech.

    ESPECIALLY when it ONLY exposes the DOCUMENTED TRUTH about Islam and it’s Qur’an Mohammed sanctioned bloody brutality, DESPITE the American Obama Administration’s apparent Pro Islam, Pro Muslim, Pandering Sympathies, and it’s apparent Anti Christian attitude..

    While Islam itself and Muslims themselves, while DEMANDING World Wide FORCED “Blasphemy Laws”, with CRIMINAL PENALTIES against ANYONE who “Blasphemes” Islam or Allah and Islam’s “Prophet”, have NO compunction with Blaspheming and Degrading ANY Philosophy or Faith that is NOT 100% espousing of Islam’s LIES.

  7. the Oracle says

    May 5, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    The Garland killers were trying to enforce to enforce Sharia law here.

    When “experts” say they don’t have a link between the killers and ISIS, I say, “Pfui.” It is obviously Islamic Sharia law. THAT’S the connection.

  8. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 5, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    Addendun BTW: Obama’s Pro Islam, Pro Muslim, Anti Christian Statements can be found at the “Obama’s 40 alarming quotes about Islam and Christianity” Link below:

    http://allenbwest.com/2014/04/obamas-40-alarming-quotes-islam-christianity/

  9. Peggy says

    May 5, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    The west was very quick in attacking Iraq in order to “protect the Kurds”. Yeah right. Why are they not so quick to go in again and protect the Christians and Yazidis?
    This protecting the Kurds mission was abosolutely rubbish. While the US imposed nofly zones and bombed Iraq the Turks were bombing them in the nofly zones. Nobody saw this as odd?
    So where is the west’s moral compass now? Why don’t we see coallition of the willing going in now and protecting these poor unfortunate children?
    We OWE IT TO THE NON MUSLIMS to protect them now. We have removed the very people who were capable of keeping these evil Jihadsts under control. Hisotry won’t be kind to the west unless we go in there and right the wrong.

  10. Briana Lyn Delaney says

    May 5, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    El-Sisi? Egypt has a sissy for a president?

  11. Avenger says

    May 5, 2015 at 11:33 pm

    Look no further then to Turkey too see how systematically the Muslim Egyptians are exterminating their minority Christian population. The Turks used any excuse they could imagine to commit murder on their Christian communities. It could be the anniversary of a Ottoman conquest, a Christian holiday, having a crucifix in public, owning a business, attending any type of school, or just plain coveting their homes and belongings.
    The USA and EU are abandoning for annihilation present day Christians throughout the Middle East. This extermination is happening at a much faster pace then one could ever imagine. It’s on par with the extermination of the Armenians a hundred years ago in Turkey. In just a few more years there will be no Christians in the Middle East, except maybe Israel and Lebanon.
    Sub-Saharan Africa will be the next population earmarked for Christian genocide.

    Are the elected governments of the West so ignorant, greedy and lazy to think that this same extermination will not happen to them in just a few more decades.
    The least we could do is give any ME Christian favored refugee status and reject all Muslim.

    The West will reap this nightmare that it has sown.

    • Peggy says

      May 6, 2015 at 12:22 am

      Western governments are not ignorant. They have enough advisors to know exactly what is going on. This must be all planned and now executed.
      If we can see what is going on, there is no way that our governments who are privy to much more information from our intelligence agencies don’t know.
      This means that no matter how hard we fight and how loud we scream nothing will change until we are ready as people to change who governs us. We obviously cannot do it through ballot box, that much is certain. What other options do we have?

  12. Gary says

    May 6, 2015 at 12:18 am

    “We have five Coptic children charged with blasphemy and insulting Islam,”

    If my son came home and cried about how his classmates used the Lord’s name in vain, and insulted Jesus, I’d say….

    “What do you expect? That happens every day in the workplace. Son get use to it. That’s life. Some people don’t have any respect for God. Least of all Jesus.”

    So why should the Muslim faith be any different? To me they are very thin skinned.

    Grow a pair for cry’n out loud!

    • Peggy says

      May 6, 2015 at 12:24 am

      Who’s gonna make them? Certainly not us. We have proved that we are going to tolerate it and in some cases even help them inflict more terror on the Christians.
      No amount of complaining is going to change anything.

  13. voegelinian says

    May 6, 2015 at 1:29 am

    Well, after the umpteenth story reported on Jihad Watch of ordinary Islamic fanaticism in the Sissified New Egypt, I’m glad at least I haven’t had to suffer the insult added to injury of Salah’s protestations that Al-Sissi is the greatest thing since Sliced Cheese and that Egyptian Muslims are just wonderful hunky-dory lovers of Democracy…

    • Angemon says

      May 6, 2015 at 4:28 am

      And exactly where did Salah say that Al-Sissi is the greatest thing since sliced cheese and that Egyptian muslims are just wonderful hunky-dory lovers of democracy? Oh, wait, Salah didn’t. You’re just lying about what others said. Nothing to see here, folks, just voeg being voeg.

  14. Bill Coleman says

    May 6, 2015 at 5:16 am

    Islam is a fanatical supremist hateful blood thirsty religion which must be stopped by political and legal means here in the USA while we still have the freedom to do so. Ask all political candidates at stump meetings how their election will help to stop the advance of Islam in the USA….put the video on YouTube with the code “islam ?” in the title.

  15. Linda Rivera says

    May 6, 2015 at 10:58 am

    Five Coptic children charged with blasphemy and insulting Islam. The children were making fun of ISIS.

    Muslim governments and Muslim organisations in Western countries and Western deceiver governments and media constantly declare that ISIS is not Islamic and does NOT represent Islam.

    By Egypt jailing and charging the five Coptic children with blasphemy and insulting Islam, Egypt is declaring to the entire world that barbaric, savage ISIS is ISLAM.

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