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Egypt: Christian tortured for refusing Islam

Nov 4, 2015 5:28 am By Raymond Ibrahim

A Christian man was abducted and tortured for refusing to convert to Islam last week in Egypt.

Christian tortured

Fayiz Fouad, a Coptic Christian, was kidnapped as he was returning from a visit to the St. George Coptic Orthodox Monastery in Qena.

His vehicle was forcefully stopped in a Nag Hammadi village that he had to cross through, and he was taken hostage for three days.

During that time, Fouad was tortured in an “ugly manner,” according to rights activist Safwat Sim‘an: “The story isn’t merely about kidnapping; it has an ISIS component to it.”

The Christian was tortured for refusing to say the Islamic shahada—that “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger”—and thus becoming Muslim.

His family could not reach the Copt except by way of an influential village elder and the subsequent payment of 50,000 Egyptian pounds, or $6,225 USD.

According to Sim‘an, “The issue of kidnapped Copts continues in Nag Hammadi, despite the fact that Egyptian Security knows where these kidnappers are situated and their identities, and yet remains silent about their crimes.”

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Fayiz Fouad, Nag Hammadi


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  1. Cameron says

    Nov 4, 2015 at 5:35 am

    If the kidnapee was some sort of pagan or was non-religious then he/she would have been simply killed outright (possibly as a spectacle to inspire fear in other subjugated peoples who see it) under Islamic custom. This is what Christian priveleges (peoples of the book) look like in the Islamic context.

    • Jayke says

      Nov 4, 2015 at 6:19 am

      http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/christians-in-iraq-see-way-of-life-disappearing/

      “For Christians, she says, Iraq is gone.”

      And we saw it with our own eyes.

  2. Baucent says

    Nov 4, 2015 at 6:16 am

    This sort of abuse has happened for a thousand years in muslim majority countries with a minority Christian population. They are regarded as cash cows, to be forever milked. Not surprising the Police won’t get involved, they probably would be surprised that anyone would object.

  3. Charli Main says

    Nov 4, 2015 at 7:11 am

    “Security knows where these kidnappers are situated and their identities, and yet remains silent about their crimes.”
    But there in lies the crux of the matter. These Muslims are not committing any crime. They are GOOD MUSLIMS practicing their religion as preached in the Koran.
    Muslims arresting other Muslims for practicing Islam???? You would have to be a denizen of La La Land to expect that to happen

  4. Angemon says

    Nov 4, 2015 at 10:21 am

    According to Sim‘an, “The issue of kidnapped Copts continues in Nag Hammadi, despite the fact that Egyptian Security knows where these kidnappers are situated and their identities, and yet remains silent about their crimes.”

    quran, 5:51:
    O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them.

    Or maybe a run-of-the-mill case of corrupt police.

  5. harbidoll says

    Nov 4, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    ok but that is the worse Allah I’ve ever seen written. Maybe kids did it.

  6. mortimer says

    Nov 4, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    Fayiz Fouad is very brave.

    His country Egypt makes a pretence of human rights, when there are NO HUMAN RIGHTS In Egypt to speak of.

    Vigilantes of the 7th Century Bronze Age Death Cult are still running rampant and unchecked by the law enforcement who are also cult members.

  7. Matthieu Baudin says

    Nov 5, 2015 at 1:54 am

    Perhaps it was those recently documented ‘British Values’ that made them do it!

  8. Vincent says

    Nov 5, 2015 at 2:05 am

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    • p. long says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 7:41 am

      also O.T., but use a whitelister plugin/program (depending on what browser U are using). i use firefox with noscript (noscript.net), which only allows through the sites i have OKed. after a while, U recognize ad domains and leave them blocked. i don’t mind ads, but yes, those are gross. BTW, jihadwatch probabl sells access to ad aggregators, and thus have absolutely no idea what ads will show up.

  9. Hallah says

    Nov 5, 2015 at 5:51 am

    I would propose a population exchange; the west exchange the Muslim population for all of the non-Muslim minorities in Muslim lands. Christians, Yazidi, Buddhist, animists etc

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