The Economist reported in December that “a massacre of Coptic Christians” in Egypt is underway, and identified “disgruntled Islamists” who are out to revenge Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s crackdown of the Muslim Brotherhood. Coptic Christians strongly supported el-Sisi’s ouster of his MB predecessor, Mohammed Morsi.
Former Unit 777 (an Egyptian military counter-terrorism and special operations unit) chief-of-staff Hatem Saber, who is also visiting professor at the Egyptian Military Academy and an expert in international terrorism movements, states that he considers “the Brotherhood the source of all current extremist militant groups” in Egypt.
Most Westerners are familiar with the stealth operations of the Muslim Brotherhood, but the Brotherhood also can and does resort to armed jihad depending on political climate.
Regrettably, the Brookings Institution boosts the Muslim Brotherhood. A Brookings Institution report declared that the MB “was left with no other option but to protest in a climate characterized by exclusion and McCarthyism” after Egypt’s military coup in 2013 that outlawed it and declared it a terrorist organization. The very nature of the MB from its founding is conquest and supremacicm; there is no way to appease it save to concede to its leadership, which el-Sisi has demonstrated that he is unwilling to do. El-Sisi said:
Vicious terrorism is being waged against the country’s Copts and Muslims. Egypt will emerge stronger and more united from this situation.
The Brookings Institution, which “bills itself as “the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tank in the world,” was bought off by the Qatari government in 2013, when it received 14.8 million dollars, casting “a dark cloud” over its “lofty claim to credibility.”
Meanwhile, President Trump affirmed support for Egypt’s fight against terror in a phone call with el-Sisi three days after Trump’s inauguration.
“Coptic Teacher Shot in the Head by Radical Islamists as Attacks on Christians in Egypt Escalate”, by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, February 17, 2017:
A 50-year-old Coptic Christian teacher was shot in the head by two Islamic militants in Egypt while on his way home from school Thursday, as attacks on Christians continues to rise at an alarming rate in the Muslim-majority country.
The Associated Press reported that the killing of Gamal Tawfiq took place in the coastal city of el-Arish when the teacher was attacked by two militants on a motorbike on his way home from El-Samran School.
Tawfiq’s death was confirmed by a school official, but no further details of the crime have yet been provided.
It’s the second murder of a Christian in less than a week in the same northern Sinai region, after suspected militants gunned down Bahgat Zakher, a local vet, on Sunday. Wale Milad, a merchant and Coptic Christian, was killed in late January after militants stormed his shop.
Copts make up only 10 percent of the nation’s 92 million population, and have often been victims of Islamic militants who have vandalized churches, Christian bookshops, orphanages, and other buildings.
As many as five Copts were murdered over a two-week timespan in January, with persecution watchdog groups criticizing the government for not doing enough to help protect Christians from such attacks.
“My brother had no enemies; he was a very simple man, and peaceful,” said a family member of one of the victims. “He left his wife and children to work in Cairo to support them. His family will now face difficulties as he was the primary bread-winner.
In December, Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral was bombed by Islamic State terror group supporters, killing 25 people, including women and children, in what was one of the deadliest attack against Christians in Egypt in years.
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-day period of national mourning over the attack, insisting that the country stands against such violence.
“Vicious terrorism is being waged against the country’s Copts and Muslims. Egypt will emerge stronger and more united from this situation,” al-Sisi said at the time.
International Christian Concern, which monitors attacks on Christian communities worldwide, said that the bombing must serve as a “wakeup call to the Egyptian government and the international community that the Christian population in Egypt is in grave danger from religious attacks.”
“Entire Christian communities have been assaulted by mobs of Muslim radicals on four separate occasions in 2016 because there was a rumor that a church was being constructed. Now, we have witnessed one of the worst assaults on Egypt’s Christian community in years. More must be done to protect Christians and their places of worship in Egypt,” said William Stark, ICC’s regional manager….
Dawn says
This happens and you never hear about it.
Jack says
You’re 100% right about that Dawn, just think no Robert Spencer and none like him; how little information and even fewer that would have any idea what’s going on. As for me I’ve been warning people about Islam’s almost 1400 years of committing atrocities on innocent men, women and children but those warnings fell on deaf ears, only since people like Robert Spencer came along are some waking up, but it seems those numbers are still too small. If this article was published on yahoo. for debate you would see many supporting Islam, they always bring up what today is called the “Dark Ages” as if todays maniacs are justified in what they’re doing. BTW there are more ways for Muslims to do Jihad than Violent Jihad, there is Stealth Jihad. understandingthethreat.com
Johan Elzinga says
I have visited Egypt over the last twenty years many time. I saw the change: in the beginning, in the eighties, women were free to travel and were walking around in the streets without headscarf. Then the trouble began. As a result of the gigantic population growth, there could only be poverty. Muslim movements took over in the south and a number of attacks took place on tourist places. A report in the newspaper describing the incarceration of a Western women – I don’t quite remember, I believe she was German – who married an Egyptian guy and started to live there – for no other reason that she travelled alone. She was arrested at the airport. Raids of police on gay people, who were tricked into going to a certain place and then severely tortured. I managed to inform Amnesty and this way at least one of my Egyptian friends was released – his carreer as a lawyer he could forget – he now lives in Canada, far from his Coptic parents, who now are left behind in a country where they can never be at ease, perhaps they are next. Islam, I believe, is like a cancer.
Jack says
Thanks Johan: I was in Egypt in 2001 I visited quite a few places, We flew from Cairo to the valley of the kings cant remember the name, we had armed guards with machine guns inside the small bus, guards in cars in front and in back of the bus all with machines guns as we weaved our way to the airport once there we went through check-points by guards there with machine guns. We left Egypt for Turkey with no trouble in Turkey departed Istanbul for Israel but a few hours before my ship was to dock in Israel we were given word that a bomb went off in the exact same place where we were to tie up. Maniacs with bombs caused my wife and I to miss out on a once in a life-time opportunity that included flying on the Concorde’s last flight. As far as visiting countries I found China to be the easiest country to visit, the airports are crazy but just sit down relax, the Chines police and military will hold the plane till they are sure you aren’t at the airport, as far as safety I feel much safer there than any American big city, I was born and raised in America, lived in Boston, NYC, Miami, Seattle .BTW our small group hired a guide/interpreter; a young woman who was a medical doctor she graduated from Harvard Medical School but she couldn’t make a living in Egypt from what she got paid as a medical doctor so she had to supplement her income.
Jack says
Sorry Johan my reply to you got posted before I could edit it,LOL and editing it needs, it would be nice if an edit option was available(}:-)
johan elzinga says
Thx anyway, Jack! It is important that we share those stories! At least we still have the internet!
abad says
Like Iran (cough cough) Egypt once upon a time was a decent nation with a thriving civilization.
Then a religion by the name of Islam moved in and destroyed everything.
I am surprised the Satan-worshipping Muslims in Egypt have not yet flattened the pyramids, sphinx and other noted monuments.
Muslims. They offer nothing useful to the civilized world and they know it too.
John C. Barile says
Al-Arish is right on the coastal road in the Sinai. It is right in the heart of an MB/Islamic State insurgency. May God save His people!
somehistory says
Even this is not enough to cause the pope and others to admit they have have been lying for this evil beast.
mortimer says
Islam has a doctrine of hatred towards non-Muslims called ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’. It is similar to apartheid, but much worse. If you can imagine life in a ‘Jim Crow’ society in the past, you can understand PRESENT-DAY discrimination against Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Hindus that is NOW happening in Islamic countries such as Egypt.
The doctrine of Al Walaa wal Baraa commands Muslims to DEMONSTRATE their hostility and enmity to non-Muslim disbelievers. If a Muslim does not believe AND practice Al Walaa wal Baraa he will not go to Islamic paradise.
Al Walaa wal Baraa is an ‘essential’ doctrine for salvation in Islam and compulsory upon all Muslims. All Muslims must hate as part of their religion.
Angemon says
And plenty of others outside Egypt.
Vic says
Can someone explain, please? If the MB has been declared a Terrorist Org in Egypt, then why are they still in the country committing acts of terrorism against other Muslims and the Copts? Why haven’t they been arrested?
In the case where some Copts were meeting to receive their bishop, Muslims attacked them and burned down a building and beat them up. They called the police and they didn’t show up until hours later. I thought there was a Counter terrorism military group that protected minorities and the population at large.
And if the US declares the MB and its partners as FTOs, will they continue to remain in the country or will they be deported? I thought their assets would be frozen and confiscated so as to render them ineffective.
LB says
Officially, the MB was “rooted out” when al-Sisi came to power, and you can’t deport what “isn’t” there. Realistically, they are still there and are very much alive, acting behind the scenes. But you’re confusing MB with ISIS. MB is a stealth jihad group: their goal is to conquer Dar-al-Harb (infidel land) through migration (hijirah) and using their own laws and freedoms against them (CAIR is one of such groups). ISIS on the other hand is the impatient, violent jihad group intent only on killing as many infidels as quickly as possible. They are responsible (if not personally, then by inspiration) for all the killings of Copts and other non-muslims in Egypt and elsewhere, not MB (although I highly doubt they are opposed of ISIS’ way of doing things).
Anne Smith says
On one of our earliest visits to Egypt, about twenty five years ago, we attended a very interesting political talk where the speaker explained that the improved medical care and education for all the peasants had resulted in a huge increase in the birth rate and survival of their children.
Because of this there was now massive unemployment for young people, who having received an education, no longer wish to work on the land as peasants but who cannot find employment in non-existent offices and factories. A great many were turning to radical Islamic camps where they were being trained as radical fighters. The speaker told us this gave them a sense of being useful and important and this was the first we had ever heard of these terror camps. It seems the British Foreign Office was some way behind us!!!
The most significant factor driving all this terror is overpopulation and lack of work. There is no effective programme to control the populations of the Islamic countries, indeed they are exhorted and pressurised to breed as much as possible.
In Europe the stupid and ignorant governments are endorsing this system by their child benefit and welfare payments which provide all the incentives they need to carry on in their backward ways.
Approximately 70% of the Muslims in Britain are unemployed, on the last figures I read, and if something is not done to redress the balance we shall be looking at an Egyptian style problem.