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Egypt: Another Christian found shot dead in his military unit

Feb 22, 2016 8:38 pm By Raymond Ibrahim

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Another young Coptic Christian conscript has allegedly committed suicide in his unit in Menufia, Egypt, says a February 17 report by MCM (actual date of incident not indicated).

According to Maj. Gen. Muhammad Mas‘ud, the 20-year-old Copt known only as Michael “shot a bullet from his firearm into his chest, dying instantly.”  He supposedly killed himself “after receiving a phone call from his home,” added Mas‘ud.

Read here for several more accounts of this “phenomenon” of Coptic Christians being killed in their military units under “mysterious circumstances,” including supposed suicide.

Accordingly, lawyer Hani Ramses remarked that “It’s new for us constantly to hear about Coptic recruits killing themselves in the military and police stations.  It’s especially strange that it’s happening now, and not previously, when Egypt was often in a state of war and under constant threat…  The killing of Coptic conscripts in the military has become a [new] phenomenon.”

The lawyer also wondered if these deaths indicate that “extremist groups” have infiltrated the Egyptian military.

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  1. Angemon says

    Feb 22, 2016 at 8:46 pm

    The lawyer also wondered if these deaths indicate that “extremist groups” have infiltrated the Egyptian military.

    If by “extremist groups” the lawyer means “orthodox muslims”, he’s probably right.

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 22, 2016 at 11:46 pm

    “The lawyer also wondered if these deaths indicate that “extremist groups” have infiltrated the Egyptian military.”

    The Muslim Brotherhood is everywhere in Egypt. A secret cabal of ‘extremists’ within the Egyptian army assassinated President Sadat at a military parade.

    Rather than duck and cause other people to die with him, President Sadat with great nobility stood tall and walk towards the assassins to present a better target for them and to spare those behind him from being hit.

    The Egyptian army is LOADED with ‘extremists’…the same as the rest of the country.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 22, 2016 at 11:49 pm

      This boy was shot point blank in the chest. No one shoots themselves like that.

      This was a message to Christians in the army. At least half of the Muslims in the Egyptian army are Islamists. They should not have any weapon in their hand.

  3. Sam says

    Feb 23, 2016 at 2:49 am

    Military service is compulsory for all people in Egypt once they reach 18 years of age.

  4. Ned says

    Feb 23, 2016 at 2:49 am

    I find it ODD that Egypt would OUT the Muslim Brotherhood and have a coup to take their country OUT of the hands of Muslims and then a Coptic CHRISTIAN would commit suicide serving in the military. The MILITARY is what made the coup HAPPEN. IT sounds like Muslims have infiltrated the military and are picking off Christians one by one in there. The military should be a place where a Coptic Christian should feel SAFE and INSPIRED. Suicide doesn’t make ANY sense.

  5. WorkingClassPost says

    Feb 23, 2016 at 5:36 am

    If there is one area where we in the West have influence in the ME, it’s within the Egyptian military, and no more so than now, with the apparent rapprochement with Russia, who are their main alternative military aid provider.

    So if we cannot insist, impose or demand that Egypt reform even this part of it’s relationship with the non-Muslim world, can there be hope of anything less than full on, violent conflict between islam and the rest of humanity?

  6. Lioness says

    Feb 23, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    Shot in the chest? That’s no suicide, it’s murder. And the “phenomenon” of Coptic Christians committing suicide in the army is called islamic jihad. The army, like the population at large in Egypt, is full of Muslim Brotherhood supporters and fanatic islamists. Every Copt in the army is in grave danger of “suicide”.

  7. The Oracle says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 1:03 am

    Muslims murdering non believers in their armies does not bode well. It’s a centuries old proven method of Muslims exterminating the cultures and religions they come in contact with.
    The process was at full throttle when Turkey’s military, in the early 1900’s, began murdering their Armenian and Greek soldiers just before committing genocide on their civilian Christian population.
    Sooner or later Coptic Christians will be no more in their native Egypt, either el-Sisi can’t or won’t keep them safe. These persecuted Coptic Christians should be greeted with open arms in the US and EU but instead they are shunned.
    I loathe Western governments and the UN.

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