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Egypt: Copts attacked, expelled because of Muhammad cartoon

Jun 7, 2015 7:46 am By Raymond Ibrahim

firehouseOn Sunday, May 24, in the village of Kafr Darwish, just south of Cairo, a Muslim mob attacked Coptic Christian homes, including by hurling stones and Molotov explosives at them. More than 10 homes were torched and damaged.

 

This latest bout of Muslim persecution of Christians was prompted by a familiar narrative: one of the Coptic villagers, Ayman Youssef, was accused of posting cartoons offensive to Muhammad on his Facebook account.

Youssef is illiterate and says he lost his mobile phone a few days before the alleged Facebook posting.

Village elders and security representatives held a “conciliation session” and decreed that Youssef’s entire family—including 80-year-old father and 75-year-old mother—must leave the village in order for angry Muslims to calm down. The Christian family was even told by the village mayor Ahmed Maher that police “cannot guarantee their safety if they remained in the village.”

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  1. Jovial Joe says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 7:53 am

    Was anyone refused an unopened can of Zero Coke in any of these posts about the persecution of Christians? No? Nothing to see here then.

    • Jovial Joe says

      Jun 7, 2015 at 8:18 am

      And do you know WHY there is nothing to see here? Because the powers that be (The Government of the United States of America) have decreed that ISLAM has absolutely nothing whatsover to do with violent extremism: http://youtu.be/56BcpyDUGM0 Watch this and be afraid, be very afraid.

    • Jovial Joe says

      Jun 7, 2015 at 8:45 am

      And do you know WHY there is nothing to see here? Because the powers that be (The Government of the United States of America) have decreed that Islam has absolutely NOTHING to do with ‘violent extremism’: http://youtu.be/56BcpyDUGM0 Watch this and be afraid, be very afraid. Pay particular attention to the chart shown which even prevents mention of the word ‘enemy’.

      • Susan says

        Jun 7, 2015 at 12:20 pm

        I just watched the video, holy crap!! Western nations need to quit the UN. Western nations need to ban islam. There is no other solution.

        Please share this video with anyone and everyone before it gets taken down.

        • Jovial Joe says

          Jun 7, 2015 at 1:10 pm

          Indeed Susan, there is no clearer illustration as to the utter treachery and betrayal of Obama’s government.

        • Jovial Joe says

          Jun 7, 2015 at 1:28 pm

          Imagine it’s 1941 and we’d been subjected to an attack that killed thousands and then had war declared against us. And imagine that those charged with defending us were not allowed to mention ‘Japan’ or ‘Germany’ or ‘Nazis’ or ‘Hitler’ or ‘Mein Kampf’, etc.; would we have won that war or would we have instead become sitting ducks and invaded and subjugated by the ‘enemy’ (another word we are forbidden to use)? It really is as bad as that with Obama.

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Jun 7, 2015 at 3:58 pm

        Thank you for posting this video link. I did watch it, and as soon as my blood pressure returns to normal limits, I am sharing this link with everyone I know. By the way, Steve Emerson received the same treatment from the Pentagon as did Stephen Coughlin. Both Emerson and Coughlin are victims of what has become the success of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.

        “The following is the official document from a 1991 meeting which outlines the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic goals for North America. The document was entered as evidence in the 2008 Holyland Terror Funding Trial. Federal investigators found the document in the home of Ismael Elbarasse, a founder of the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, during a 2004 search. Elbarasse was a member of the Palestine Committee, which the Muslim Brotherhood had created to support Hamas in the United States.”
        http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum#

        For an eye-opening strategy, read in its entirety, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” which may be downloaded at the following link:
        http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/445.pdf

        As you will see, the strategy of our enemy is alive and well in America.

        • Jovial Joe says

          Jun 7, 2015 at 4:05 pm

          And aided and abetted by the Commander in Chief and no doubt further advanced if Hillary Clinton attains that position.

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 8:19 am

    In Islam, a mere accusation against a kafir is equivalent to a death sentence, because Sharia law gives Muslims the duty to act as VIGILANTES taking the law into their own hands.

  3. Mirren10 says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 8:33 am

    ”Village elders and security representatives held a “conciliation session” and decreed that Youssef’s entire family—including 80-year-old father and 75-year-old mother—must leave the village in order for angry Muslims to calm down.”

    Shades of the Judenrat …

    ”The Christian family was even told by the village mayor Ahmed Maher that police “cannot guarantee their safety if they remained in the village.”

    Are the police Copts, or muslims ? Either way, they’re not doing their job.

    How **sickening** this is.

    I know the Copts have lived under dhimmitude for hundreds of years, and to a degree I sympathise with how this has effected their attitudes, but what would it take for the mayor and the village elders to actually present a united front towards the ‘security representatives’ ( no doubt mohammedan police) and determinedly say; ”No, we are **not** going to go along with your recommendation that this family leaves our village. Instead, we are **all** going to protect them, since **you** claim you are unable to do your job.”

    OK, I know, easy for me to say, but still …

  4. duh_swami says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 9:13 am

    How does someone who is illiterate manage a facebook account? Well the mob never concerns itself with details.
    The best thing for the mob to do in these cases is to persecute the 75-80 year old parents and drive them out or kill them, whichever comes first, Allah willing, and he always is…
    it seems that the word ‘cartoon’ has taken on a life of it’s own…No picture is necessary, the word alone is sufficient to ‘provoke’ the mob into violence. If you ever have the urge to shout out, ‘cartoon’, make sure there are no hostiles around before you do it. No point in unnecessarily ‘provoking them’…

  5. Angemon says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 9:30 am

    This is the kind of story that goes unnoticed in the MSM since it throws a wrench in the narrative.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 9:46 am

    Islam is just an excuse.
    Muhammad would often play the victim too in order to rationalize his “Allah” sock-puppet’s demon inspired rage.
    Hitler used the same evil ruse.

  7. Westman says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 10:28 am

    It seems like Deja Vu all over again.

    Which came first, the defective brain or the defective religion that makes defective brains?

    A once great empire whose greatness now lies in tourism of the former greatness and the pronouncements of Al-Azhar “scholars”. There is a common factor in this new insane greatness.

    Islam, from the mind of a madman to the minds of men made mad.

  8. Don Foss says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 10:39 am

    Hey…just following in the footsteps of their prophet. Perfectly acceptable, even praiseworthy behavior for devout Muslims.

  9. Jack Diamond says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 11:55 am

    Amazingly such things go on in such disparate places as Pakistan and Nigeria as they do in Egypt, places having but one thing in common, Islam. Sometimes it’s invented stories about burnt pages of a Qur’an to whip up the crazed mob, invented insults of Muhammad attributed to some targeted Christian, now it’s cartoons… tomorrow it will be that the Christian (or Hindu or infidel of choice) just thought about doing it. Farfetched? Not really, the classic manual of shari’a, Umdat al-Salik, includes thought crimes in “acts that entail leaving Islam” (apostasy): “to intend to commit unbelief, even if in the future, and like this intention” (08.7 n2).

    Really now, who is more guilty of shirk, giving Allah a partner, than Muslims and that fellow Muhammad?
    Muhammad, who made it a principle that insulting or ridiculing him or being critical of anything he said or did insulted Allah equally, and made you the enemy of Allah and you should be slaughtered for it.

    Then there is the Islamic principle of lying. Making up stories such as we see here, a model of conduct set by Muhammad, who allowed lying in commission of a murder in the case of Ka’ab bin Al-Ashraaf; who permitted Muslims to lie on behalf of Islam, even in taking a false oath. Summed up in ‘we smile in your faces and curse you in our hearts’. There was a lie made up about a veiled Muslim woman being uncovered in order to justify Muhammad laying siege to the Banu Qaynuka. It’s no wonder, since not only did Muhammad say war is deceit, but Allah himself is the best of all deceivers.

    So is it strange when Muslims under oath accuse innocent Christians of blaspheming Muhammad or tearing up a Qur’an? They have an “excellent example” set for them. Speaking of cartoons, during the whipped up hysteria over the Danish cartoons, deliberately whipped up by clerics who toured the Muslim world to publicize cartoons from an obscure Danish paper, new and worse (cruder, more insulting) cartoons were added to the originals by the Muslims just to increase the frenzy. This is the same principle at work here, getting a foaming at the mouth mob pointed toward Allah’s enemies.
    By hook or crook.

  10. Richie says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    “Village elders and security representatives held a “conciliation session” and decreed that Youssef’s entire family—including 80-year-old father and 75-year-old mother—must leave the village in order for angry Muslims to calm down”

    So people must bend to the homicidal demands of followers of the Islamic death cult? There is no ‘calming down’ Muslims, as their religion is pure evil and built on hatred and lies. Muslims will never know peace, tranquility or peace of mind, as their hearts are so full of evil, rage, hatred and the desire to destroy life. Muslims are the true army of darkness, as their master is the Devil himself

  11. voegelinian says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 2:01 pm

    This is like the umpteenth report indicating that Al-Sissi’s Egypt is not the vaunted “reform” of Islam it was touted to be (even by some in the Counter-Jihad), but is actually SOSO (Same Old Same Old). And yet just the other day on Jihad Watch, William Kilpatrick held up Al-Sissi as some kind of a Muslim Nelson Mandela or something.

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 7, 2015 at 2:02 pm

      Note: When I say “Nelson Mandela” I’m of course referring to the PC MC myth of Mandela as a Gandhi of our times (in turn referring to the PC MC myth about Gandhi…)

      • Jay Boo says

        Jun 7, 2015 at 2:22 pm

        voeg,
        Your follow up to your original comment about PC MC myth in reference to yet another myth is very clever and true.

        However, the original comment latches onto your SOSO habit of complaining about the Counter-Jihad not being Counter-Jihad enough while ignoring the actual vile behavior of the Muslim Islam inspired mob mentioned in this article.

    • Angemon says

      Jun 7, 2015 at 5:03 pm

      voegelinian posted:

      “This is like the umpteenth report indicating that Al-Sissi’s Egypt is not the vaunted “reform” of Islam it was touted to be (even by some in the Counter-Jihad), but is actually SOSO (Same Old Same Old). And yet just the other day on Jihad Watch, William Kilpatrick held up Al-Sissi as some kind of a Muslim Nelson Mandela or something.”

      Whoa, voeg, you’re like, totally correct! As we can see, the election of Sisi did not change Egypt overnight from a country where the MB had a great deal of traction to a modern day Western utopia, therefore Sisi is just as bad as the MB itself!!!

      Your logic is so perfect and flawless that I feel like shouting “VOEG FOR PREZ!!!” “Hesp/Voeg 2016”!!!

  12. profitsbeard says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 6:16 pm

    Islam is the kuru– “The Laughing Disease”- of religions.

    Its dogmas form a kind of spiritual prion that turns the victim’s mind to sponge and the sufferers into giggling maniacs.

  13. Bome says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 5:39 am

    Copts are routinely persecuted by Muslim citizens and the Egyptian Government. Churches burnt, homes confiscated and people forced to leave the country of their birth to find peace. This is no surprise to those of us who know the history of the Coptic community. Remember, no Copt will ever be president or hold an office of real import in Egypt. As most westerners aren’t even aware cots exist, it’s no surprise that their plight continues. Don’t blame Obama, contrary to popular US opinion the U.S. President isn’t the leader of the free world and can’t do diddly squat to solve this problem. My advise to those in the west, learn more and try to avoid the idea that America is the answer to all things, or conversely responsible for the entire worlds ills.

  14. Bome says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 5:42 am

    I would however question the entire accuracy of a report that places the management of Facebook in the hands of an illiterate man. Hmmm. I seem to recall that a certain amount of literacy is required in the management of social media.

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