“What have they done to deserve this?” They were Christians. My latest in FrontPage:
As the Divine Liturgy was ending Sunday morning at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, there was, in the words of one man who was there, a “shattering explosion like nothing I had ever heard before.” The latest reports indicate that 25 people were killed and 49 were wounded as a bomb exploded at a chapel in the cathedral complex. No one has yet claimed responsibility, but there are two principal groups that could have been the culprit: the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic State.
“God bless the person who did this blessed act,” wrote one Islamic State supporter about the bombing, and there is always the possibility that the bombers may have been heeding the Islamic State’s call for jihad attacks on Christians worldwide. Last summer, the Islamic State’s Dabiq magazine called for the breaking of the cross, in accord with Muhammad’s purported prophecy that Jesus would return at the end of the world and break the cross. He would do this because the Qur’an asserts that Jesus was neither killed nor crucified (4:157), and consider the Christian idea that Jesus was crucified to be an insult to Allah’s omnipotence.
Christians, said Dabiq, “have the option of trying to cling to the transient luxuries of this life, rejecting the truth in favour of either paying jizyah [tax] to the Islamic State or continuing to wage a futile war against it. Alternatively, they can heed the warning of Allah that the worldly life is not guaranteed even for those who pursue it at the expense of their salvation, and thus choose to embrace Islam, champion the truth, attain the mercy of their Lord, and enter the Gardens of Paradise.” This, too, accords with the Qur’an, which calls upon Muslims to wage war against “the People of the Book,” a group that includes Christians, “until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (9:29).
The Islamic State’s war against Christians and Christianity is thus total and global; the group’s recent jihad activity in the Sinai also make it possible that it could well have struck in Egypt. But it is likewise possible that the perpetrator of the bombing was the great rival of the Islamic State in attempting to restore the caliphate and the glories of political Islam: the Muslim Brotherhood.
As the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt was driven from power in 2013, the anti-Brotherhood protesters accused Obama of supporting terrorism. The accusation wasn’t made lightly. During the Brotherhood’s one year in power, Egypt’s El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence documented 359 cases of torture by the regime — ten times the number of cases documented annually during the Mubarak regime.
One chief Brotherhood target was Egypt’s Christian community: Brotherhood partisans ransacked Christian businesses and abducted Christian children. Brotherhood members blamed the fall of their regime on the Christians and rampaged against Christians all over Egypt, burning and looting nearly seventy churches and destroying 1,000 Christian businesses and homes.
The Rev. Khalil Fawzi of Kasr El Dubarrah Evangelical Church, the Middle East’s largest evangelical church, said:
The Muslim Brotherhood were the ones who called for aggression [against Christians]. They are responsible. Either they are in control or they burn Egypt.
This violence, however, was just an intensification of the ongoing low-level persecution to which the Brotherhood subjected the Christians. As far back as 2003, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said:
Coptic Christians face ongoing violence from vigilante Muslim extremists, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, many of whom act with impunity.
This support for jihad terror is in line with the Brotherhood’s goal since its founding. Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna’s ambition was to restore the caliphate (which had been abolished in 1924, four years before he founded the Brotherhood), creating a global Islamic superstate instituting Sharia as a universal law. Al-Banna insisted:
[It is a] duty incumbent on every Muslim to struggle towards the aim of making every people Muslim and the whole world Islamic, so that the banner of Islam can flutter over the earth and the call of the Muezzin can resound in all the corners of the world: Allah is greater (Allahu akbar)!
It is likely that “Allahu akbar” were the last words heard by those who died in the St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral complex on Sunday morning.

eur says
A special hug for all Christians of Egypt. We must all be united, regardless of our religion, national identity or political ideology (left, right … does not matter). Islam has not changed, that ideology of conquest and submission remains the same. There is no moderate Islam, do not be fooled by neologisms. The Christian Arabs of Liban, Syria, Iranian Christians, Yazidies, Druze … all know the truth because they live daily. There is no good and bad Islam, Islam is a totalitarian political ideology that in addition some try to impose with Terrorism. Nothing new, 1400 years equal.
Angemon says
Seconded, eur.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, eur!
Stephanie says
http://quran.com/9/30 ‘… may Allah destroy them’ http://quran.com/8/17
TJ says
There is a plan in the bible to take down the message of the cross and replace it suddenly with a day of judgment. Christians in the middle east need this to happen now more than ever. One of the bible’s unfulfilled comments in Amos 8:9 says God will cause the sun to go down at noon, and will darken the earth in the broad daylight. Then, after the whole earth is dark, a power similar to the passover in Egypt is used and people who are too guilty to see the return of Jesus are put to death by God. This verse says everyone would get tipped off a few hours in advance that God is showing up since it says the sun will go down several hours early. That would sure be nerve-wracking. There is evidence in the bible this day will actually happen. There are still a lot of unfulfilled statements in the bible that can suddenly be coordinated together like boards. When they are it serves as a warning that this day could happen. The fact this warning system was purposefully built gives the word. of Amos a lot more credibility. It sure is more likely to actually happen since a lot of other prophets were used to build the warning system. That is a peculiar thing to do. Muslims should be worried about this unusual thing sitting there in the bible. When I looked at their book I saw God sabotaged the koran so I couldn’t use it to build the alarm like what can so easily done with the Jewish book. If I was them I would run to the bible. In truth, Christians have a lot bigger edge over the koran through this route than through the evil antichrist belief, which is similar to the muslim claim of a mahdi.
Aussie Infidel says
TJ, Speaking as an old astronomer, I can assure you that if any cosmic catastrophe were to occur which would “cause the sun to go down at noon, and darken the Earth in broad daylight”, the gravitational forces at work would reduce every living organism on Earth to mince meat. Nothing would be left alive for any ‘saviour’ to consider.
Such a catastrophe is certainly possible. There are many large asteroids or minor planets in Earth-crossing orbits, which one day could come close enough to the Earth to cause such havoc. Such an event eons ago could have resulted in the formation of our Moon. And as evidenced by the presence of meteor craters on almost all continents, many similar events have occurred since then. But there is no evidence that any of these events had any supernatural origin. They were all simply collisions or near misses by ‘loose cannons’ left over from the formation of the solar system.
This is just one of the many ‘prophecies’ and other ‘miracles’ which separate religion and science. A scientist reading this story, would realise immediately why the outcome described is erroneous, while a man of faith would simply continue to ponder the possibility.
In this fight against Islam, I regard religious arguments like these as simply distractions from what we should be doing. In my book, no God is going to help us! We will either win or lose depending on whether we get off our arses and take the necessary action to stop this evil ideology. Educating the public – as Robert is doing on this blog – is the first step. The next step is to gain political power and use it wisely – and this has already begun with the election of Donald Trump in the US. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of the end for Islam in the West; but if anyone thinks it will be easy, they need to remember that winning one battle does not necessarily win a war.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Muslims Bomb Cairo Coptic Cathedral
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Another Muslim atrocity against peaceful Christians in Dar-al-Islam.
Bob says
Has anyone heard any words of condemnation/rage from the pope or the UN?
A Harris USA says
No Bob, you will never hear the condemnation or rage from that Islamic appeaser Pope!! Never mind the majority of those killed were women and children.. Grandmas and kids!!! Never mind it will be denied by the Egyptian government, for the Copts to repair their church!! Never mind that Obama who is a Muslim, and hates Christians, will not let Christians immigrate from these hell hole nations!! Pray for these modern day saints!! God protect them, and help them!!
Charles says
The SATANIC STATE at it’s worst! Bombing innocent peoples in their own Church!
The perpetrators of such a deed are certainly Demon possessed PSYCOPATHS! But then, that pretty much described all muslims in general.
It is so very sad that humans (with a soul) must still share the Earth with these soulless freaks!
Karen says
“God bless the person who did this blessed act”. Par for the course of supporters of every evil done by ISIS. But how many of the Muslim silent majority also approve, or condone with their silence? Why is there silence instead of outrage?
Keith Jordan says
It amazes me that people who are not Islamic continue to say they see nothing wrong with Islam, and that we should all co-exist. It scares me to think about it. I’ve recently seen people in the small city I live next to, protesting on a street corner in favor of Islam, and one of their signs says “co-exist” I cannot co-exist with terrorist murderers. Why are the liberals blind to this? Why doesn’t terrorism scare them? Will they need to experience terrorism personally before it scares them?
A Harris USA says
Keith, this is just a liberal mindset!! Even with the attack by a Somali Muslim in OSU, they whine and cry the pig was killed!! Like I suggest, next time a Muslim wacko pig decides to attack a university, let him finish the job.. Don’t interlope on his terror!! It shows no tolerance.. At least it will help clear the gene pool.