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Egypt: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” attacks Christians, forces closure of church

Dec 12, 2018 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“The subject peoples … are forbidden to build new churches.” (Reliance of the Traveller, o11.5). Islamic law also forbids Christians to repair existing churches.

“Koum al-Raheb church closed, Copts attacked,” by Nader Shukry, Watani International, December 10, 2018:

The police has caught an unspecified number of Copts and Muslims in the village of Koum al-Raheb in Samalout, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, and tightened security over the village, bringing calm in the wake of skirmishes between the village Muslims and Copts.

To Islamic cheers of “Allahu Akbar”, literally Allah is the Greatest, groups of Muslim villagers had this morning, Monday 10 December, waged attacks against the houses of the Copts in the village of Kom al-Raheb, pelting them with stones and thumping at doors and windows. They were livid that the Copts had a day earlier, Sunday 9 December, opened a new church building and celebrated Holy Mass inside. The police arrived and demanded immediate closure of the unlicensed church. The Copts persuaded the police to wait for Mass to conclude before closing the building, which they did and confiscated its keys.

Monday morning, local government employees arrived to the church to cut off water and electricity from the building through removing the electricity and water metres, a standard measure taken against unlicensed buildings. The village Copts gathered around the church to oppose this procedure, and stood praying out loud in the street in front of the four storey building.

According to the village priest who asked for his name to be withheld, the new church would have served the village’s 2500 Copts, since the village includes no church. He said that fundamentalist Muslims had used the local mosque’s microphone to rally the village Muslims against the Copts….

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Filed Under: Egypt, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Koum al-Raheb, Minya, Samalout


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  1. Giscard says

    Dec 12, 2018 at 12:06 pm

    It just is NOT a religion!

    • J D S says

      Dec 13, 2018 at 9:22 am

      More stupidity in Islam….and there’s plenty to go around……
      Does anyone know of how many new mosques are in the process of being built in the U.S.? I guess Robert Spencer might know……sure would like to know how many mosques are presently in the U.S. and how many more are in the process of being built and proposed to be built? ANY HELP WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 14, 2018 at 12:24 am

        I don’t have figures on how many are in the planning process now, J D S–but I do know that Mosques are mushrooming in the US:

        https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/mosques-experiencing-growth-in-us

  2. mortimer says

    Dec 12, 2018 at 12:26 pm

    The MOTIVE behind Sharia law is AL WALAA WAL BARAA .. the hatred of kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’.

    Allah Muslims are called to hate.

    No one can understand Islam fully without a MASTERY of AL WALAA WAL BARAA.

    Please learn about this ‘essential’ core teaching of Islam.

  3. Robert says

    Dec 12, 2018 at 12:27 pm

    it is my opinion that all Non-Moslims should boycot muslims countries that exercise violence towards Non-Believers and stop going there on holidays

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Dec 12, 2018 at 3:26 pm

      Agreed!

    • Rufolino says

      Dec 13, 2018 at 6:11 am

      After an interval of 30 years, recently went to Morocco for two weeks. I instantly sensed a changed atmosphere, silently hostile. Extremely unpleasant. Got my travel arrangements changed, and fled after two days.

      • Rufolino says

        Dec 13, 2018 at 6:15 am

        (Forgot to mention that during my very short stay in Morocco I had the horrifying the horrifying experience of seeing a Moslem publicly beating his wife in the street.)

        • J D S says

          Dec 13, 2018 at 9:30 am

          Yes Rufolino ….just one more show of the pure stupidity in Islam and it grieving and on…watch your back….your front..and side….coming to America soon…already here?

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 14, 2018 at 12:25 am

        Awful, Rufolino–glad you got out.

  4. Battle says

    Dec 12, 2018 at 12:49 pm

    Peace attacks Christians. Peace says no church allowed.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 12, 2018 at 8:23 pm

      This is an application of the PACT OF OMAR.

      The PACT OF OMAR is Islam’s DEFAULT position.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 14, 2018 at 12:28 am

        True, Mortimer.

        You can read the text here:

        https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/pact-umar.asp

  5. gravenimage says

    Dec 12, 2018 at 5:17 pm

    Note that attacks on Christians and the forced closure of a church are characterized as “skirmishes between the village Muslims and Copts”.

    And then, while the Egyptian authorities do appear to have stopped the physical attacks, they themselves are shutting down the church. It is “unlicensed” only because Muslim Egypt seldom allows Christians to build or even repair churches–as per the oppressive Pact of Umar, which codifies the persecution of all non-Muslims.

    • christianblood says

      Dec 12, 2018 at 7:25 pm

      gravenimage posted

      (…Note that attacks on Christians and the forced closure of a church are characterized as “skirmishes between the village Muslims and Copts”…)

      Good observation, Graven! Now do you understand or rather can you explain WHO is doing this cover up that you just mentioned above and WHY???

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 12, 2018 at 7:46 pm

        Watani International–which means, oddly, “National International”–is an Egyptian news source. It is difficult to find much outside information about them, but they do at least report on the plight of the Copts.

        In Dar-al-Islam I doubt they could do so unless they toed the government line, including characterizations of the situation by the police, as here.

        That authorities in Muslim countries do not blame anything on Muslims should not surprise.

        Despite this show of probably necessary dhimmitude, Nader Shukry has a record as a brave reporter on the persecution of the Copts, often putting himself in harm’s way to do so.

        • christianblood says

          Dec 12, 2018 at 9:18 pm

          gravenimage

          Good point, Graven! I mistook the people doing the cover up to be some Western media group but you made a good point!

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 12, 2018 at 10:03 pm

          Thank you.

  6. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Dec 12, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    America should ban any Muslim Egyptians from immigrating to our country.

  7. somehistory says

    Dec 12, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    Anyone who loves Christ should pray as Jesus said to in His instructions: “You must pray then, this way, Our Father in Heaven, let your Name be made holy (for everyone in the Universe to consider His Name holy), let your Kingdom come, let your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven (Matthew 6:9).” As soon as this prayer is answered by Our Father in Heaven, this persecution and killing of His people will cease.

    And anyone who believes this treatment of Christians is wrong, evil. abhorrent, should not travel to those countries that allow, or even cause, this to happen. These countries need outside money to pay the police and governments, such as what comes from tourism.
    Matthew chapter 25 is where Jesus said just who is treating His “brothers” in a way that will bring them blessings.

  8. Martel says

    Dec 12, 2018 at 9:33 pm

    I live in Sydney Australia.
    There is a Coptic community near me, and it is growing and growing, anyone that can escape, escapes and tries to find refuge in overseas Coptic communities such as the one near me.
    My girlfriend works at a childcare on the northern beaches of Sydney. Most of the new parents coming there are French or German, with several Swedish. They are mainly all from these countries and the waiting list is full of French and German parents.
    When my gf spoke to a French father about his country, he looked emotional and frustrated. He wanted to say why he must come to find a future in Australia, but she guessed he did not want to seem to be a racist.
    Things in the world are reaching a critical point as we see with the giletsjaunes movement. Islamisation is once again emboldened, globalization facilitating it… we will all be forced to stand and fight soon, sacrifice something, not just sit behind computer screens venting our frustrations. Deus Vult

  9. Tony says

    Dec 13, 2018 at 1:59 am

    Trudeau I hope one day your Islamic friends show will you and especially your wife what the true meaning of Sharia means.

  10. Manuek 2 Paleologus says

    Dec 13, 2018 at 6:45 am

    This is not labeled as Christianfobia by the liberal international media? But if this would happen in the western world a mosque, it would be trumpeted as islamcphbia.
    Where is the voice of Vatican and of Pope Francis? He cares to proclaim islam equals to Christianity and ‘allah’ is the sane as the Christian God. He is more preoccupied with the new paradigm shift in the Catholic Church accepting same sex union, to love Martin Luther as a great evangelist and to accept to communion civil remarried couples. He is busy to show islam as a ‘religion; of peace and even an instrument of salvation. What a shame! My heart goes to our brothers in Egypt.

  11. ronyvo says

    Dec 13, 2018 at 8:22 am

    As we all know here Islam is the most evil and violent system ever existed. But, the problem is the vast majority are still ignorant of that fact. The reason for their ignorance is the corrupt media.

    The Coptic (orthodox Christians) Christmas is the 7th of January. The churches in Egypt and abroad are pact with the worshipers on the 6th attending the holly mass. Muslims in Egypt know this very well. The criminals (pious Muslims) will try to do their horrible deed. The government knows this very well, of course.

    But, will the ‘loving el-Sisi’ protect the churches as he keeps saying wit at least, assigning police and military at every church in the nation?!!! I doubt that very much. However, he would go to the Cathedral during the Copts’ assembly praying celebrating the Birth of our Lord Jesu Christ and tell the naïve Copts “I/we love you”. And, the simple Copts believe him

    In MY opinion, he is more dangerous Morci 9the previous ousted president. Both are hateful Muslims, but at least Morci was honest in his hate, Sisi is horribly sneaky.

  12. dannyboy9 says

    Dec 13, 2018 at 10:28 am

    Coptic Christians in Egypt live among Muslims, they have never heard of moderate or radical Muslims only Muslims.

    Those Coptic’s if told to reach out to their Muslim community to help them fight against radical Islam would scratch their head in disbelief.

    Those same Coptic Christians would tell you they have never heard the phrase “Not all Muslims are terrorist” they know only of Muslims who follow Sharia which subjugates all People of the Book.

    Mr. El-Sisi is a Muslim, only when it serves Islam will he announce concern for those Coptic Christians, they do not expect anything but daily humiliation, persecution, subjugation and the removal of all their human dignity.

    Those Coptic’s would also ask the West why do you show concern from Muslim females as victims of various Sharia compliant acts you consider barbaric, in Egypt Muslim females will never come to the aid of or suggest any protection of Coptic Christian females, in Egypt all Muslims are superior to all Christians.

    There are many more aspects of Islam not mentioned when discussing Sharia in the House of Islam, and there is a call to silence regarding real life among Muslims during the House of Islamic War world wide, you see it is considered slander we Coptic’s know is truth.

    With that, reconsider your personal understanding of Islam as if you currently live under Sharia like those Coptic Christians who live being subjugated as a way of life without police or government protection, they only know they are in a cage subject to the teachings of Muhammad.

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