Egyptian Christians live precarious lives, at the mercy of Muslim authorities who are often eager to brutalize them, in line with their Islamic supremacist assumptions and world view — and when they do, the Christians have no recourse.
“Police crime shocks, angers Egyptians,” by Nader Shukry and Rehab Gamal, Watani International, November 19, 2016 (thanks to Maged):
The death of 54-year-old Magdy Makeen who was tortured and killed in the police station in the Cairo district of al-Ameeriya has sent shock and anger waves through Egypt.
Makeen, a Copt, earned his living selling fish on his horse cart. His cousin, Yusri Attiya, told Watani’s Rehab Gamal that the family was informed of his death by Zaitoun Hospital on Monday 14 November at 8am. “We rushed to the hospital where we found his body covered with a sheet and kept under strict security. They got a coffin from a nearby mosque and put the body inside and moved him to the morgue.”
Mr Attiya says that once the body was uncovered at the morgue, it was very obvious Makeen had been brutally tortured before he died. His body was full of bruises.
The family got to know the details from two men who had been with Makeen the day before. They said they were with Makeen as he drove his horse cart. He accidentally hit a police car that was passing by. The police officer in the car, Captain Karim Magdy, shouted obscenities at Makeen who retaliated by shouting back insults. The verbal fight escalated, Makeen drove away to escape the police, but they caught him and took him and the two other men who were with him to the police station of al-Ameeriya.
“How did you know these details,” Watani asked Mr Attiya, “if the two men are still detained by the police? Were you allowed to see them?” Mr Attiya said they got their information through the lawyer who also said the two men had been tortured by the police. Makeen died after two hours of brutal torture, they said.
The police story goes that the three men on the horse cart were selling drugs and the police was chasing them. The police car hit the horse cart during the chase and Makeen lost his life. The police said they found 2000 tablets of narcotics in the cart. Watani asked Mr Attiya how could he be so sure that this was not true? “Makeen was a very poor man,” Mr Attiya said. “Could a drug dealer be so poor? He always enjoyed a good reputation among his neighbours and all who knew him. But all this is besides the point; if Makeen was a drug dealer he should have been prosecuted according to the law, not tortured to death.
“Had there really been a collision that killed Makeen as the police said, would the cart had remained intact? We went to feed the horse where the police kept him and found him safe and sound and the cart intact.”
Mr Attiya insisted the family did not wish to turn the incident into a tool which the media can use for sensationalism or political manipulation, and this is why they had not been talking to the media. “But we insist that justice should be served,” he said. “The police officer involved in the crime has already been suspended, and the prosecution has demanded a speedy after-death report. We are comfortable with that.”
Th [sic] Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar has suspended Captain Karim Magdy pending investigation in the case….

eur says
shhh Robert don’t be islamophobic, muslims are always the victims, even when they create a caliphate, they are beings of light. People are not aware but we are living historical facts. What we have read in the history books and seen in films about medieval wars, religious fanaticism, conquests … we are living it and watching live. Islam has always been that way and they are so crazy and lobotomized that even those who do not kill deny Islamic violence.
Mac-101 says
I’m surprised a 54 year old Christian man would shout back obscenities at the Muslim Police Captain. Did he take so much he could take it no more? Suicide by Police Captain? May he find peace now.
Angemon says
Poor man… 🙁
Shmooviyet says
Yes– first murdered, then his name slandered.
How proud Mo’Mad would be.
Cretius says
There is no such thing as “Peaceful Islam” or “Peaceful Muslims”. Muslims are encouraged in the Koran to practice deceit and LIE when dealing with non-believers.
http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch16_understanding_dishonesty.htm
Koran 2:191 “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”
Koran 3:21 “Muslims must not take the infidels as friends”
Koran 5:33 “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam”
Koran 8:12 “Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran”
Koran 8:60 ” Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels”
Koran 8:65 “The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight them”
Koran 9:5 “When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them”
Koran 9:123 “Make war on the infidels living in your neighbourhood”
Koran 22:19 “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies”
Koran 47:4 “Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them”.
“If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land”.
Mustafa Carroll
Dallas CAIR Director,
Remember Wahhabism is Sunni = radical Islam = Daesh
SPREAD THE WORD!
Therefore, Muslims are the Fifth Column in the Muslim invasion of the West.
Voytek Gagalka says
Something is wrong here. If indeed “police crime shocks, angers Egyptians,” then why they tolerate it in their own country in which the vast majority are Muslim? Or rather it should be read properly that “crime shocks” ONLY CHRISTIANS as it is them who are victims and police is predominantly Muslim and thus biased against them. That would explain everything. But this headline in misleading.
CRBG says
As an Egyptian Christian, I’d like to say that the same thing happened to Khaled Said (a Muslim young student who died tortured to death in 2011).
Magdy Makeen was an Egyptian first, and his torture-to-death was not because he was Christian but because he was poor. The same thing happened and still happens to Muslims as well.
I don’t like identity politics, not when it’s in my favour, and not when it’s against my interests.
Please stop stoking identity politics in the Middle East because, pretty soon, Christians will only care about Christian victims, and Muslims will only care about Muslim victims.
We are all Egyptians first, and this brutality is unacceptable whether it happens to a Christian or a Muslim.
Brian Hoff says
Than drug dealer can be poor to hide the fact that he is than drug dealer while hiding the money in secret foreign bank accounts. In NYC one of the mafia big shot live in poor life with little luxury to hide his criminal wealth.
Angemon says
Nonsense. If he was as rich as it was claimed, he wouldn’t be needing to be selling drugs on the streets, plus he would have been able to bribe his way off a police station. Does the unnamed “mafia big shot” you’re alluding to sell drugs on the streets on a daily basis? Or does he have his underlings do the grunt work?