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Raymond Ibrahim: 70-Year-Old Christian Women Stripped and Paraded by Muslims Not First to Suffer This Way

May 28, 2016 10:18 am By Raymond Ibrahim

StopPersecutingCopticChristiansEgypt[Detailed updates on this story]

A 70-year-old Christian woman was stripped naked, savagely beat, and paraded in the streets of Egypt to jeers, whistles, and yells of “Allahu Akbar,” after a mob of some 300 armed Muslim men descended on her home.[1]

Her crime?  Her son is falsely accused of having a romantic relationship with a Muslim woman, which is banned by Islamic law, or Sharia—the same body of teachings that prescribes the collective punishment of non-Muslim “infidels.”

Seven other Christian homes were also torched by the rampaging mob.

The attacks occurred in Minya, Upper Egypt, on May 20, a Friday: the one day of the week when Muslims congregate in mosques and listen to sermons; the one day of the week when most Muslim mob attacks on Christians occur.

While she was on the ground being kicked, cursed, and spat upon, Sa‘d Thabet, the elderly Christian grandmother, managed to slide herself underneath a wagon.  While hidden there, an unidentified woman slipped her some garments, and the traumatized woman eventually managed to escape.

“I never saw the woman who covered me and don’t know how I survived,” she said during a closed meeting with clergymen of the Coptic Christian Orthodox Church.  They testified that her body was covered with wounds, adding that, “though she is strong, it is sometimes hard for her to speak; she’s always fighting back tears and sometimes breaks down.”

For some time prior to the attack on Thabet, her household had been receiving threats.  On the morning of the assault, some of the home’s property was stolen and vandalized.  Wearied of the constant harassment, she and her husband went to local police who responded by threatening and kicking them out of the station.  A few hours later, around 8 pm, the attack occurred.  It took the same local police over two hours to appear, giving the mob “ample time,” as one clergyman put it, to sate its savage impulses.

When asked why she reported the incident on May 24—four days after it happened—Thabet said:  “I tried to hide and suppress what occurred, but I could only take the feelings of humiliation and oppression for four days, at which point I decided to return to the local police station and testify about what happened to me before those who had refused to hear me.”

This 70-year-old is hardly the first Christian woman in Egypt to be treated so.  In 2013, rioting Muslims “burned down a Christian school, paraded three nuns on the streets like ‘prisoners of war,’ and sexually abused two other female staff even as at least 58 attacks on Christians and their property were reported across Egypt over the last four days. At least two Christians have died in the attacks.”

Nor is this an “Egyptian” phenomenon; it’s an “Islamic” one. In Pakistan, a 28-year-old pregnant Christian mother of four was stripped naked, beaten, and forced to march nude in her town by two Muslim brothers following an argument.  She lost her baby in the ordeal, which “was motivated because of Bibi’s [Christian] religious beliefs.”  Similarly, a Muslim family kidnapped, beat and left naked on the streets an 8-year-old Christian girl, as a way to “punish” her uncle for pursuing a relationship with a female member of the Muslim family.

In short, every aspect of this most recent attack is part of a well-established pattern that has played over in Egypt, Pakistan, and other Muslim majority nations countless times: a Christian is (often falsely) accused of some infraction; his family and possibly entire village is savagely attacked, beat, molested, and mugged by the mob; and police take their time to arrive and do little when there.

After 3,000 Muslims attacked the Christians of a village near Alexandria in 2012, it took the army an hour to arrive—even though it was only one mile away: “This happens every time,” said a Christian eyewitness.  “They wait outside the village until the Muslims have had enough violence, then they appear.”

As Minya’s most senior Christian cleric, Anba Makarios, put it during a televised interview concerning Thabet’s ordeal, if a Muslim man was pursuing a Christian woman, police’s response “would not have been anything like what happened….  No one did anything and the police took no pre-emptive or security measures in anticipation of the attacks.  We are not living in a jungle or a tribal society.”

Unfortunately, the good priest is wrong.  Islamic culture—founded as it is by an Arab tribesman—is inherently tribal.  The umma is the super tribe of Islam, meaning Muslims side with Muslims against all “infidels”—that is, all outsiders—according to the doctrine of “loyalty and enmity.”  Highly revered scholar of Islam, Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), held that Muslims are “obligated to befriend a believer — even if he is oppressive and violent towards you and must be hostile to the infidel, even if he is liberal and kind to you” (The Al Qaeda Reader, p. 84).  Hence why Muslim husbands are told to hate—and show they hate—their non-Muslim wives.

This is the hostile, un-assimilating, tribal mentality that the West is importing by the millions. In Muslim-majority nations—where Christians and Muslims look the same, speak the same language, and are virtually indistinguishable—being non-Muslim is enough to subject one to the aforementioned hate, violence, and discrimination.  How much more are Muslims expected to view and treat those who are not only non-Muslim but completely alien in all ways?

[1] This report is based on several Arabic language news sources and contacts.

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  1. African infidel says

    May 28, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    islam is like a deadly cancer that is affecting all humanity everywhere. muslims demand others to respect them but they are silent as muslims unjustly kill, maim, behead and persecute non-muslims everywhere. muslims have no love or respect for non-muslims and they are very deadly and poisonous group of people all because of islam.

    • nicu says

      May 28, 2016 at 2:21 pm

      So true – they get away with the worst crimes ! If they would live in one country that country would be in deep trouble – but they are everywhere so it’s hard to fight them .

      Humans who are still humans have the task to fight this ideology of hate !

      • Jay Boo says

        May 28, 2016 at 9:37 pm

        — The Christians might try forgiveness.
        — Deprogramming the Muslims is a thought too.

        — One other option is to arm the Christians with RPG’s and AK47’s to rip the hate preaching pervert imams and their evil smirks to shreds. It might make them just a bit more contrite when they kneel to say their devil conjuring prayers in the dead of night.

  2. Lizzy says

    May 28, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    Islam becomes bolder by the day…inflicting heinous torture and humiliation on non-muslims. They are encouraged by blinkered, lily livered Westerners who, for some obscure reason, cannot or refuse to accept the carnage islam carries out against non-muslims.

  3. FuturePresident says

    May 28, 2016 at 3:04 pm

    Scorn of the filthy Muslim Brotherhood. Even when kicked out of Egypt their work remains.

    • Lee says

      May 29, 2016 at 2:35 pm

      This attack on this old women is from Arab tribal people who live in Villages in upper Egypt. Some villages in upper Egypt are entirely Coptic and some are entirely Arab from certain tribes these people of Arab tribal background in Egypt are usually the extremist Muslimsin Egypt. The other type of Muslim who is the more liberal or secular Muslum is the native Muslim who’s ancestors long time ago centuries ago had to convert to Islam from Christianity out of pressure, but this type of Muslim is the non extremist type who is tolerant to other fellow Egyptians on the basis of being the same ethnic group. Egypt is diverse not every single person is from the same ethnic group. Even different Arab tribes fight each other in upper Egypt, don’t be fooled people not all of today’s people are Native yes most are say 60 to 70 % in regards to being the same ethnic group but the remainder who have come from neighbouring countries like Arabia centuries ago during Islamic ruling in Egypt were siding loyalty to there tribe, including causing terrorism through religious extremism. Egypt never mentions this since it’s a corrupt and secretive country.

  4. Charli Main says

    May 28, 2016 at 3:11 pm

    Coming to Britain. When the Muslim invasion of Britain is completed, native Brits will find themselves non citizens in their own land without any social and political rights, like the Copts of what was CHRISTIAN EGYPT.

    • TH says

      May 29, 2016 at 12:50 pm

      The Brits are too “nice” to recognize this basic fact. It will be too late when they realize that niceness is not the way to deal with muslims.

  5. Edward says

    May 28, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    The Mosques are generally the instigators of civil unrest and general mayhem worldwide!

    “The attacks occurred in Minya, Upper Egypt, on May 20, a Friday: the one day of the week when Muslims congregate in mosques and listen to sermons; the one day of the week when most Muslim mob attacks on Christians occur.”

    In the US there should be imposed rules that will curb a form of sedition like activities in churches, synagogues and mosques, but still respecting, in full, what the US Constitution’s original Amendment 1 was ratified for. Sedition activities are generally against the government structures, why not laws that would restrict any religion from executing social takeovers of different beliefs and cultures by force? If there are such laws existing in the books what would it be called? We need some law(s) enacted to keep America “AMERICAN” and not being highjacked by foreigners as it seems trending!

    Religious acts should stay in the confines of the minds and hearts of the adherents and not to be used in the political arena to facilitate a takeover of a nation by anyone!

    • MTMLA says

      May 29, 2016 at 10:40 am

      Islam is a totalitarian political ideology with a varnish of religion. Its aim is to rule the world under Islam and Sharia law.Those who don’t know history are doomed to relive it. Look at ex Christian Egypt..Copts are persecuted second class citizens in their own country and followers of islam became the dominant majority.

  6. Angemon says

    May 28, 2016 at 5:07 pm

    This is the hostile, un-assimilating, tribal mentality that the West is importing by the millions.

    And against the desires of many of its citizens.

    • Christianblood says

      May 28, 2016 at 6:47 pm

      Angemon posted

      (…This is the hostile, un-assimilating, tribal mentality that the West is importing by the millions.And against the desires of many of its citizens…)

      I agree, but it is more than ‘tribal mentality’ and much more dangerous than ‘tribal mentality’. islam is an evil and murderous cult of death and hate and it has to be treated as such.

      • Angemon says

        May 29, 2016 at 2:14 pm

        The only part I wrote was “And against the desires of many of its citizens”. The rest was quoted from the article (you read it, right?). Hence the blockquotes.

  7. Jay Boo says

    May 29, 2016 at 12:38 am

    Sorry Angemon,
    I have to agree that Christianblood has the better definition here.

    “it is more than ‘tribal mentality’ and much more dangerous than ‘tribal mentality’. islam is an evil and murderous cult of death and hate and it has to be treated as such.”

    I wonder what some of the many commenters would do if there relatives were treated this way.

    • TH says

      May 29, 2016 at 12:54 pm

      Ancient moral codes, like that of Hummarabi, which goes back to 1800 B.C. condem such behavior. In fact, most of the ten commandments, besides being revealed by God, can be found in such ancient moral codes, because they are part of Natural Law. Islam is totally unnatural and inhuman, as it rejects the basic rules of human logic such as the principle of non contradiction. The Qur’an is full of contradictons by the moon god Allah himself.

    • Angemon says

      May 29, 2016 at 2:14 pm

      The only part I wrote was “And against the desires of many of its citizens”. The rest was quoted from the article. Hence the blockquotes.

      • Jay Boo says

        May 29, 2016 at 9:51 pm

        Yes you are correct.

  8. CTL says

    May 29, 2016 at 6:13 am

    It takes 300 allah beleiveing people to take 1 ( one ) Christian believeing old woman out of her house to beat her and strip her naked , WHICH god IS GREATEST NOW ?
    Our YHWH is GREATEST because He saved her from 300 to tell her story to other Christians that now know the true nature of muslims .

  9. Edward says

    May 29, 2016 at 10:06 am

    YES, 1 true GOD can negate all the ambitions of all demons that exist!

    CTL, your written thoughts about the outcome of this event has much to ponder on.

    Excellent!

    • Edward says

      May 29, 2016 at 7:59 pm

      a correction:

      YES, 1 true GOD can negate Islam’s EVIL ambitious MINDS that exist!

  10. Jay Boo says

    May 29, 2016 at 11:25 am

    Islam, Why?

    No offence intended to followers of the Religion of Sleaze and Allah but, once you take away Friday Prayer dance piety parade there is nothing left but Muhammad’s stinking Pig Bath.

  11. Lee says

    May 29, 2016 at 2:59 pm

    Upper Egypt does have several Tribal and Arab Tribal people who are generally loyal to Islam only and they love terrorising people in the name of religion to others. Or other tribes on the basis of being from a different tribe. Very common in Upper Egypt then what does the corrupt governments in Upper Egypt do is only siding fake peace through reconciliation. Corrupt Egypt get rid of this procedure and start applying the law through sentencing.

  12. citycat says

    May 29, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    Jay Boo, bit of a coincidence you saying that.
    I hope i don’t have to answer your wondering.
    I’m worried.
    My youngest daughter is off on holiday with her boyfriend to Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia.
    She won’t listen to me about the possible danger of entering Muslim lands.
    All i’ll say is that ‘just one hair of her head’ and suffice it to say that the consequences shall be dire indeed in England. Not with regard to Muslims but to Everything but.

  13. Mark Alan Fishel says

    May 30, 2016 at 2:59 am

    The only work I can come up with is coward. These people are cowards. 300 men to take on one old woman. If Islam isn’t Satanic, it is at least sadistic. Violence is their life’s blood. Their god calls them to kill for him and die for him. My God died for me and lives again. I think the reason they always say, “Mohammad, peace be upon him,” is because nothing but strife comes from him.

  14. Celtic says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:44 am

    Ladies and Gentlemen: The Religion of Peace.

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