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Egypt: Muslim mob sets church on fire, attacks Christian homes and shops with stones and Molotov cocktails

Nov 29, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer 24 Comments

Will the Islamophobia never end? The mob in this case is enraged over a Christian’s alleged “blasphemy” on Facebook. Authorities do nothing to stop the mob because all too often they are more sympathetic to the rioters than to their victims.

An update on this story. “Egypt: Hundreds of Muslim villagers attack Christians after alleged Facebook post,” by Tola Mbakwe, Premier Christian News, November 28, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Sectarian violence has broken out in an Egyptian village.

Hundreds of local Muslim villagers in Barsha in Minya governorate attacked the homes and properties of local Christians on Wednesday.

According to persecution watchdog Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), the incident began after rumours circulated that a Christian man, who remains anonymous to ensure his security, had posted a comment on his Facebook page that was deemed insulting to Islam. The man claims that his page had been hacked.

The aggressors also tried to attack the church of Abou Sefin, where the congregation was celebrating the beginning of the Coptic fast. CSW said minibus belonging to the church was set on fire and several homes and properties were damaged, but no one was hurt. Police were arrived quickly, and arrested a number of local Muslims and Christians who were involved in clashes.

The allegation that sparked the violence comes amid a significant increase in the number of people arrested on charges relating to contempt of religion and blasphemy during 2020….

“Egypt: Christian homes and shops attacked in village,” ICN, November 28, 2020:

The village of al Barsha, in the governorate of Minya, was once again the scene of attacks on members of the Coptic Orthodox community there. On Thursday, groups close to Islamist groups, attacked the church and some Coptic houses and shops with stones and molotov cocktails. Some of the shops attacked were also ransacked. An elderly Coptic woman was hospitalized for burns suffered in the fire in her home.

The attacks allegedly began after a young Christian man posted an article on his Facebook account considered offensive to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad. Police intervened to restore calm. Among the hundred people were 35 Copts.

General Osama Al Qadi, Governor of the Minya Province, immediately called a meeting with a delegation of local leaders village to find a timely solution to the crisis and put an end to the sectarian attacks. The meeting, held in a school in the city of Mallawi, was also attended by representatives of the Committee for Reconciliation and Religious Endowments, the University of al Azhar and the Coptic Church and the House of the Egyptian Family, an interreligious liaison body activated a few years ago to prevent or mitigate sectarian controversies.

The Governor referred to the measures that will be taken against “anyone who offends others”, reiterating that “no one will be allowed to sow discord between people who belong to the same nation”. He also invited the imams to focus their sermons in mosques on the themes of coexistence and tolerance. Despite these appeals, proclamations continue to be spread through social media that foment opposition and clash between Muslims and Coptic Christians, instigating new sectarian attacks….

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Internet jihad, Islamic supremacism, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery Tagged With: Abou Sefin, Barsha, Facebook, Minya


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  1. Martin says

    Nov 29, 2020 at 2:33 pm

    video – Egypt – Muslims attack the village of Barsha

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  2. tedh754 says

    Nov 29, 2020 at 2:39 pm

    “I am shocked, shocked! that Muslims would become violent.” said no one ever

    Reply
    • Lion heart says

      Nov 30, 2020 at 3:32 am

      😂😂 I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq and our Christian ancestors said it hundreds of years ago “ If a Muslim is a piece of gold, don’t put it into your pocket otherwise it rip through” meaning when Muslims have the chance and the ability to harm nonMuslims especially Christians and Jews , they would do it without any kind of hesitation at all and we saw it in Iraq after the fall of Saddam’s bloody regime where many Muslims ( except some nice ones among them who are far from Islam ) and they betrayed the Christians by collaborating with ISIS and al-Qaeda and they joined those terrorist groups and they helped them kill Christians, kidnap& rape Christian girls for not wearing the hijab and die wearing western style clothes , they also helped those terrorists kick Christians out of their homes and loot their property and they even ordered the Muslim grocery stores not to sell anything to Christians especially in Mosul and some parts of Baghdad , and even the long-time Muslim neighbours to Christians have stabbed Christians in the back by doing what I have just mentioned earlier and not only that but also , many Iraqi Arab Muslims who have worked as interpreters with the US army , they too have betrayed the Americans by snitching on them to their fellow Islamic terrorists of Al-Qaeda and ISIS through texting by showing them the whereabouts of the American military convoys so that those terrorists would ambush the American troops and kill them while sparing the lives of their fellow Muslims!

      Reply
    • Justis says

      Dec 5, 2020 at 12:23 pm

      Muslim apologist will always come out of the woodwork claiming it’s only a small percentage of evildoers.
      Brain dead liberal hypocrisy.

      Reply
  3. Dude says

    Nov 29, 2020 at 2:47 pm

    Coming to a theatre near you soon.

    Reply
  4. tim gallagher says

    Nov 29, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    Jihad Watch does a great job, day after day, getting the news about these Muslim atrocities out to the world. Look at the reports on the front page of Jihad Watch. Atrocities in Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan by the endlessly violent adherents of Islam, the “religion of peace” according to many deluded fools. The main stream media probably won’t report on many of these violent Muslim actions. How anyone can continue to tell us , nasty, greasy Islamophobes (as Robert Spencer often puts it) that we are, that Islam, this satanically evil ideology, deserves to be respected is completely beyond my comprehension. A world without islam in it, stirring up the violence and stirring up the worst in people, would be such a better, more peaceful world. I keep thinking that almost everyone should have woken up to Islam’s vile nature by now, but quite a lot of people truly seem to be incapable of being woken up.

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    • john smith says

      Nov 29, 2020 at 5:00 pm

      Spot on Tim.

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    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 29, 2020 at 5:17 pm

      “quite a lot of people truly seem to be incapable of being woken up.”
      They refuse to look.

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    • E T says

      Nov 29, 2020 at 8:17 pm

      Yes Tim and all the no namers who are killing people worldwide. Shhhh that is Islamophobic – just like when the Imams call for killing Jews – Imams in Canada – oh no that was just a translation error. Kill the filthy Jews (In English) Kill the filthy Jews ( in Canadian eh) I am such a dirty Kafir, speaking about the manic Muslim Imams.
      Not only is the pot calling the kettle black, the pot is boiling.

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    • tim gallagher says

      Nov 29, 2020 at 10:50 pm

      Thanks for the comments, john, Michael and E T. To my mind, the mainstream media do tend to overlook some of the Muslim attacks, and I often notice that Muslim terrorist attacks are simply described as terrorist attacks, (here in Australia) but, nevertheless, there are just so many Muslim terrorist attacks that it truly is amazing that almost everyone hasn’t woken up to what an evil and dangerous ideology Islam is. I get that some people maybe never bother with keeping up with the news, but most people should be awake to islam by now. As you say, Michael, they must refuse to look. Maybe it would interfere with the peaceful life, free of stress, that they try to have. I will say this. I have quite a few fairly left wing friends and siblings and I have noticed them gradually beginning to wake up to islam. It has been interesting to watch this happen over the past five years or so.

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    • gravenimage says

      Nov 29, 2020 at 10:59 pm

      Excellent exchange.

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      • tim gallagher says

        Nov 30, 2020 at 3:53 pm

        Thanks, gravenimage. In my opinion, you’re a wise person with high standards, and a very good bullshit detector,(you demolish some of the clowns that show up here at Jihad Watch very well) , so, when you give praise to comments, it really is meaningful.

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        • gravenimage says

          Nov 30, 2020 at 11:16 pm

          Thank you, Tim. You are a fine poster yourself.

  5. JohnTheRevelator says

    Nov 29, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    Ofc the mainstream media won’t say anything because it could destroy the image they have in their minds of Muslims being sweet innocent little angels just trying to raise their families peacefully in the West.

    No inquiry as to why this might be happening because it’s just some ‘religious war’ in some far-off land. If only we could’ve been strong and wise like Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia who knew what dangers Islam and the Muslim populations bring so they kept them all out.

    They probably didn’t forget past Islamic invasions-a memory they very astutely passed on to future generations so today they are aware of Islam as their ancestors were. Meanwhile we’ve stopped teaching that pertinent history to our kids and now we don’t even know what we’re up against. Looks like we’re all going to learn the hard way.

    As for persecuted minorities in Muslim countries, we should be arming them and also blasting their countries at the UN for how they treat minorities and threatening them with invasion and regime change the way we did with Iran.

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  6. abad says

    Nov 29, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    Not surprisingly, Moslems in the western world turn a blind eye to acts like these.

    Precisely why Moslems will never belong in the western world.

    Deport them all back to the Middle East and let them kill each other.

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  7. spiro says

    Nov 29, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    These Egyptian Christians are an example to us all on true Christian faith
    They face martyrdom every day and stay strong in their faith

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  8. mortimer says

    Nov 29, 2020 at 11:26 pm

    Would this be a case of Islam ‘INSULTING’ other religions, Mr. Erdogan?

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  9. gravenimage says

    Nov 30, 2020 at 12:12 am

    Egypt: Muslim mob sets church on fire, attacks Christian homes and shops with stones and Molotov cocktails
    ……………..

    Obviously Egyptian police did nothing to stop them.

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  10. Atheist Kafir/Infidel says

    Nov 30, 2020 at 12:24 am

    As an Egyptian Atheist, I’ve been hearing, 5 times a day, for as long as I can remember, Imams and Sheikhs yelling at the top of their lungs, through megaphones and sound amplifiers, Koran 9:5 (i.e., “the Verse of the Sword” which is the 5th Verse of the 9th Sura that’s the one before last last chronologically of the fucking Koran), 9:29, and 47:4, as well as the prescriptively violent, genocidal anti-Kafir Ahadeeth that have been relayed by El-Imam El-Nawawy.

    That being said, “the penalty for cowardice is death,” to paraphrase Marcus Aurelius, due to fact that 8000 Arab Koranimals had invaded Egypt, a country of 800 million Coptic non-Koranimals who mounted no resistance whatsoever, in 641 C.E.

    Copts have always been like a herd of rabbits vis-a’-vis a cackle of hyenas and their time, in the profoundly dark heart of Dar El-Islam, is up, given the fact that Egyptian Koranimals have embarked on a Jihad to wipe them off the face of the Earth, and, needless to say, Imam Yusuf Biden El-Amereeki, Grand Sheikh of the White Mosque, and Western Leftarded politicians couldn’t care less.

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    • Atheist Kafir/Infidel says

      Nov 30, 2020 at 12:33 am

      Moreover, since Copts supported El-Sissy’s coup against Egyptian Koranimals’ MB President, Morsi, who was a lover of Hillary Clinton, in 2013 C.E., Imams and Sheikhs have been shouting that “Copts thought they could f*ck with Allah and his slaves, but them Coptic pigs were dead (pun intended) wrong, as there’s no victor but Allah, as per Koran 12:21,” which is engraved in Arabic all over the walls of Granada, Spain.

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      • Carol says

        Nov 30, 2020 at 7:17 am

        Informative posts!

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    • Sami says

      Nov 30, 2020 at 9:02 am

      Copts are not heard of rabbits remember most just converted to Islam out of fear and strong Copts remained Christians, A native Egyptian Muslim is basically a Copt read history there the same people. An example would be Germany Protestants and Catholics still same people germanic.

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    • Mike 2 says

      Nov 30, 2020 at 9:15 am

      800 million?

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  11. OLD GUY says

    Nov 30, 2020 at 11:00 am

    Just another islamic attack on others based on their false belief in Muhammads writings.
    Islam complains about Islamophobia they are the creators of it, through the violence they do against non islamic people. Islam is being highjacked by a group of criminal leaders who want nothing more than POWER. Just because you kill in the name of Allah doesn’t mean you are right or doing Allah’s work. Maybe Muhammad got it wrong or misinterpreted it based on the time and place he was at that time.

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