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Muslim mob of 5,000 screaming “Egypt is Islamic” attacks Christians for building church

Jul 3, 2016 9:20 am By Robert Spencer

Where is Franciscan Action Network spokesman Jason L. Miller on this? Too busy writing trumped-up stories about “Islamophobia” to examine actual religious persecution? Of course, in this case the perpetrators are Muslims, so if he were to speak out too strenuously about this, he would end up in dutch with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and would no longer be invited to the best parties.

Egypt-Muslim mob

“Horrifying mob of 5,000 attacks Christians for BUILDING CHURCH shouting ‘Egypt is Islamic,’” by Katie Mansfield, Express, July 2, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A MOB of 5,000 attacked a group of Christians as they attempted to build a church, the latest in a string of violent attacks in Egypt.

Vigilantes torched and looted homes in Baidaa village after hearing rumours worship was taking place.

And the horror continued when six CHRISTIANS were arrested for the brutal attack.

Naim Aziz Moussa, who was one of the Christians taken into custody, had offered the top two floors of his home to Christian villagers to use for worship.

Visits by a Coptic priest to the house near Amria, a small town south of Alexandria, fuelled speculation.

A baying mob gathered and threw stones, destroyed a car and shouted “We don’t want a church, we will knock down the church building, Egypt is an Islamic country.”

Mr Moussa said: “More than 5,000 people, including young and old, men and women, mobbed my home. They were shouting: ‘One way or another, we’ll bring the church down to the ground’.

“‘No church will stand here in the village. It’s either us or you, infidels!’

“The building was ransacked, including our home. My brother’s nearby new flat was also destroyed.”

Many of the 80 Christians who live in the village of Baidaa, an area is heavily influenced by Muslim Salafists, were injured in the chaos, including women and children.

Local priest Father Karas narrowly escaped the violent crowd who smashed his car as police were called to the scene.

Mr Moussa said: “They were crying out: ‘Islamic! Islamic! We don’t want churches in Amreyya!’”

“As the police arrived at the scene, angry Muslims were shouting, while their women were showing signs of jubilation that the police were there. “They were shouting out in support of the police, while at the same time stressing their rejection of the church on Islamic grounds.

“The police chief could see me bleeding from my wounds. I complained to him about what happened to me. He said I deserved this, and more.

“The police did nothing to protect the Christians. Right in their presence, more Christian properties were attacked. Father Karas’s car was smashed yet again.”

Ten homes were looted and two were torched as the mob destroyed all the fittings and fixtures used in the house for worship….

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  1. linnte says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 9:35 am

    How can we Americans INVITE these Christians to our country? Can we offer them asylum?Maybe the author of this article, Katie Mansfield would know how to contact these folks. I am going to see !

    • Angemon says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 10:15 am

      You can revise the laws regarding asylum.

    • Richie says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 10:23 am

      Not as long as Obama is president- he has an exclusion policy towards Christians, and is profoundly hostile towards Christians

    • Jeremiah says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 1:00 pm

      We need to combine our resources. There must be a way to bring these people to safety. Once safe we can sort out the rest. For example, Australia has refugee camps on Nauru, Manus and Christmas Island which may be available. PNG may have additional facilities. They would not go on to Australia, which like America, is reserved for Muslims only. However, in a few months it is likely that Donald Trump could be approached.

      It is worth thinking about because their flight is dangerous. I don’t see how Christians can sleep at night.

      • Polk1970 says

        Jul 3, 2016 at 4:49 pm

        HOW INDEED?!

    • RKae says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 4:19 pm

      Why bring them to America? Then it will just be homosexuals throwing rocks at them.

    • Con says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 7:45 pm

      Isn’t it amazing, 50,000muslims/ year for residency cards and 3 years citizenship, 35,000 Muslims/worker green cards, 27,000 Muslim students, and over 100,000 Muslims refugees and economic migrants. And only 8 Christian refugees.

      I believe it’s time to rescue the Christians.

      • desidude2 says

        Jul 4, 2016 at 12:08 am

        Fact is that in all these islamic countries, in their passport, visa and immigration offices, all the l staff and paper pushers are muslims.
        These muslims are always putting fellow muslims in front of the line for a chance to go to america as either an immigrant or a refugee. The Christians and other non muslims find themselves pushed out of the line or their paper rejected in favor of a muslim. the hiring practice are such that mostly muslim work in these offices, while non muslims are denied these jobs.

    • TH says

      Jul 4, 2016 at 4:30 am

      Why should Coptic Christians, who after all are the descendants of the original inhabitants of Egypt, be forced to leave their homeland and that of their ancestors who made Egypt great over centuries and millennia? Rather than offering them refuge, the U.S.should be pressuring the Egyptian government and the U.N. to fulfill their duties and protect these heroic Christian Copts, who happen to be some 10% of the population of Egypt. Instead of being palsy with the Wahiban Saudi Kings, it could condition its support to them stopping their support fro world jihad.

      • Lexa456 says

        Jul 4, 2016 at 7:22 am

        I absolutely agree, although I do understand people, whose first natural reaction is to pull them out of their situation, save them from the islamic sickness.

        But, it’s their home. Why should they leave? Just to make it more comfortable for the savages, who, by the way, have brutally invaded and occupied their ancestor’s lands hundreds of years ago? No! Our fellow Christians need out help. They’re outnumbered in Eqypt (and in any other islamic countries) so we need to stand up for them.

        By the way, I’m absolutely disgusted by the fact that nearly none western media is reporting about all of this!

  2. Cthulhu says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 10:07 am

    No church is allowed in Egypt? So let’s build an another mosque in Germany:

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/18/german-city-gives-muslims-land-worth-850000-euro-build-mosque/

    • Con says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 7:46 pm

      Germany Merkel has gone nuts, France built the first state mosque for the Muslims

  3. Richie says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 10:21 am

    As usual Muslims have no grasp of history. Egypt was long Christian centuries before the Muslims cultists became squatters. In fact Islam displaced the original religions in every country today now considered ‘Muslim’ countries. This is why Israel should never give an inch to Muslims, otherwise there will become just another country Muslims will overrun like cockroaches and claim their own.

    The sad thing about Egypt was that it was once safe for westerners, not its a hive of barbarism

    • Jack Diamond says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 6:46 pm

      Their grasp of history is that nothing counted before Islam, it was the period of Jahiliyyah, ignorance.
      They also grasp the laws of dhimmitude which they apply on Christians whether or not the State does. No new churches. Collective punishment meted out. And they do it because they can,
      “The (Muslim) police did nothing to protect the Christians”and “six Christians arrested.” al-Sisi or no al-Sisi.

      “Egypt’s parliament is now starting to consider a proposed piece of legislation that would enable non-Islamic religions to build new church buildings more freely.

      Classical Islamic laws dating back from the Ottoman Empire prevented the building of any new churches and this was translated into the laws in Egypt. This was even made more stringent in 1934 when a decree was issued in which conditions to be met were added before one can apply for permission to build a new church. This decree still currently applies, in which organizations that wanted to build a church still have to obtain permission from neighboring Muslims and make sure that there are no other church buildings in a nearby village, town or city.

      The proposed new piece of legislation will allow Christian church leaders to request for the building of churches to regional governors. The local officials should make the decision within 60 days and if the governor would refuse to grant the request, the governor should have to specifically state the reasons for the refusal. Church representatives will then be given the right to make an approval to the Administrative Court. In addition, church buildings that were built more than five years ago without authorization will now be legalized.”
      http://www.christiandaily.com/article/restrictions-on-church-buildings-in-egypt-may-be-lifted-as-parliament-is-set-to-discuss-new-bill/52668.htm

      All very fine, except “the police did nothing to protect the Christians” and “six Christians arrested”
      oh, and fatwas like this one from a few years ago, Al-Azhar affiliated “Dar el-Eftta” — Fatwa Council for Islamic interpretations of laws in Islam–it stated “the will of a Muslim towards building a Church is a sin against God, just as if he left his inheritance towards building a nightclub, a gambling casino, or building a barn for rearing pigs, cats or dogs.”
      {That Islamic tolerance of other religions, again. A church is like a barn for pigs and dogs i.e. Christians}

    • Con says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 7:47 pm

      I remember when people went on vacation there, u couldn’t pay me to see the pyramids now. I’m surprised the Muslims haven’t bombed them yet, it’s coming, just wait and watch

      • Jack Diamond says

        Jul 3, 2016 at 10:42 pm

        al-Baghdadi has called it a religious duty to destroy the pyramids and sphinx. Not a new idea either. According to Ibn Khaldun, the caliph al-Ma’moon wanted to destroy the Pyramids in Egypt and he gathered workers but he could not do it. It’s in the DNA of Islamic supremacism, long before ISIS:

        “Mahmud of Ghazni, according to the British historian Sir Henry Elliot, launched some seventeen jihad campaigns into India between 1000 and his death in 1030 C.E. Utbi, Mahmud’s court historian, viewed these expeditions to India as a jihad to propagate Islam and EXTIRPATE IDOLATRY.

        Srivastava in 1950, wrote:

        “To the Indian world of his day Mahmud was a veritable devil incarnate— a daring bandit, an avaricious plunderer, and WANTON DESTROYER OF ART. He plundered many dozens of…flourishing cities; HE RAZED TO THE GROUND GREAT TEMPLES WHICH WERE WONDERFUL WORKS OF ART; he carried thousands of innocent women and children into slavery; he indulged in wanton massacre practically everywhere he went; and…he forcibly converted hundred of…unwilling people to Islam.”
        http://www.islam-watch.org/Bostom/Legacy-of-Islamic-Jihad-terrorism-in-India.htm

        Obviously, since ISIS is not Islamic, there was nothing Islamic about Mahmud and his jihad campaigns in India, either. Or….

        And until they can blow up the monuments, it’s always easier to just slaughter the tourists who visit them, as at Luxor.

        • particolor says

          Jul 4, 2016 at 2:53 am

          Print up a Billion Copy’s of it and stick them on every Western Country Roadside Pole !!

  4. Gary says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 10:22 am

    Dear Somehistory,

    I need some, “Good News”, I grow weary of constantly reading about this death cult. Would you kindly tell that story about how Islam will soon be gone? And I like the part in the story where you mention Islam will be gone forever.

    Sincerely,

    An infidel. (Well but not really, cause I’m not really an infidel if the Son has set me free), …..but those Muslims call me an infidel, so we’ll just humor them…. for now.

    • John Marst says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 10:50 am

      I understand your concerns. But after 1,400 years of barbarism, Islam is being fumigated. And many of those bleating about “Islamophobia” don’t like it because the Internet is exposing the savagery and contradictions of Islam. So they are resisting. But people are beginning to reject the cult; the evidence is abundant.

      Drops of water, when given time, will wear down a stone. The Internet is a fire hose blasting against the corrupt edifice of Islam. And the edifice is crumbling.

      • Con says

        Jul 3, 2016 at 7:49 pm

        Haven’t seen that, the Muslims have invaded Mexico, once a Christian nation, mosques r being built everywhere

  5. duh_swani says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 10:44 am

    Some elements of ‘The Pact of Umar, are still practiced…The nobs are the enforcers…It’s like that because Allah wills it…he always does…

    • Con says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 7:50 pm

      Pact of umar?

      • Jack Diamond says

        Jul 3, 2016 at 11:04 pm

        as in Caliph Umar. The formalizing of the rules for the dhimmi (subjugated non-Muslims, in this case Christians) under Muslim rule, including the paying of the jizya, ransom for their lives, and an excruciatingly long list of prohibitions designed to make the dhimmi feel “humbled” and from doing anything that might offend Muslims, including building churches or repairing them.

  6. Blangwort says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 11:03 am

    No, Egypt was Christian long before it was Islamic. It is still Christian. To deny the Christianity in Egypt is to deny its history.

    I think I see a pattern here…

    • Con says

      Jul 3, 2016 at 7:51 pm

      Yep

  7. Jay Boo says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    Muslim mob

    Without a mob, there can be no Muslims, for the ideology has no spiritual foundation.

  8. Will Doohan says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 1:17 pm

    Once again, the brutal intolerance of Islam and Muslims is proven by themselves.

    • Westman says

      Jul 4, 2016 at 1:12 am

      Watching their mindless antics it’s easy to see why Egypt was soundly beaten in the 1967 war with Israel. It is impossible to consider these mobs as being intelligent people; certainly not able to conduct successful organized warfare against an intelligent, technological, enemy.

  9. Crusades Were Right! says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    Islam is a gigantic death cult whose god demands human sacrifice in the form of non-Muslims. Nearly every day we see evidence of this. The recent attacks in Europe, Orlando, Constantinople and Islamic-occupied India are nothing more than devout Muslims practising their religion!

  10. dsinc says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 1:30 pm

    Talk about Muslim mob see “Innocence of Muslims” The movie.

    • billybob says

      Jul 4, 2016 at 8:26 pm

  11. Ryan James says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 1:55 pm

    See, there’s a country that is unhobbled by political correctness! Something to be learned by this!

  12. DHazard says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 4:21 pm

    It seems it’s never enough for a Muslim just to believe in Islam. Their sense of collective identity requires an enemy. This underlying insecurity is widespread. Muslims around the world are largely uneducated and illiterate, but they see how wretched their lives are compared to the rest of the world. A few eventually open their eyes and leave. But most simply cannot bear facing the reality that Allah has done nothing to help them. So, as their faith’s promises never materialize, they lash out like cornered animals and dream of past “victories”.

  13. mortimer says

    Jul 3, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    Why Islamic vigilantism is a ‘fatal’ flaw:
    In an Islamic society, there is no respect for secular law if it is inconvenient to the spread of Islam. Sharia law may be used to justify almost any rebellion against secular law. Islam is based on obscurantism, so instead of critical thought, Muslims use the circular argument of an unverifiable divine command. Anyone who makes an argument based on Sharia or the sacred Sunna example of Mohammed can act like a supreme court justice, overturning national, secular laws. This leads to a complete breakdown of the legal system. We see this in places like Egypt, where Christians may have all the legal permits required to build or repair a church, but the local sheikhs may still disagree based on the Pact of Omar or something in Sharia law and overturn the right of the congregation under the national law. If the Christians go ahead and build, the mob comes from the mosque after Friday prayers to destroy the church building.

  14. Michael Johnson says

    Jul 4, 2016 at 2:33 am

    Christians better wake up the time for crusades is now look what Islam is doing burning our churches homes raping our women we must take action now

  15. Rotten Eye says

    Jul 4, 2016 at 3:20 am

    And the Earth became infected with the vile Muslim.
    The skies were dark with soot and the smell of death.
    And people lived in fear.
    Grain did not grow and the animals were sick.

    And it came to pass, the Earth says: “I am sick and my life is unhappy when the Muslim walks on my land and breathes my air. All good men, find the Muslim and Strike him at the neck, of all Muslims!!”

    If the dirty Muslims hides behind a rock or tree, the rock or tree will cry out: “Come! Look here! There is a dirty Muslim hiding here! Come and smite him. Strike at his neck! For surely they are sons and daughters of Pigs and Monkeys!”

    And the Muslim fled like a crazy man with fear in his eyes and terror in his mind!
    But he was not swift enough.
    For the Earth found and catch every one of the vile Muslim.
    And the Muslim was struck at his neck.
    And the Muslim blood flowed like a the river Nile.
    Until all Muslims on Earth were smited.

    And Lo, Behold.
    The world became clean and fresh when the Muslims were no more.

    And the earth was happy.

    And people lived in peace and the Earth was good.

    Amen

  16. More Ham Ed says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 4:15 am

    Where are the moderates?
    Send in the moderates.
    (sung to the tune of SEND IN THE CLOWNS).

  17. Honpa says

    Jul 28, 2016 at 3:16 am

    Egyptians betraying their pre-islamic culture. Once admired for their highly and advaced and mysterious culture/civilization; today sunk into barbarism.

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