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Egypt: Coptic Christian children kidnapped for profit

Jan 15, 2014 11:10 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Yet another Coptic Christian child was recently kidnapped in Egypt. Thirteen-year-old Cyril Rif”˜at Fayiz was abducted in the Minya district by “unknown persons” who later called the child’s parents demanding one million Egyptian pounds, nearly the equivalent of $150,000 USD. Kidnapping and holding Coptic children captive for large ransoms has become a regular feature of […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians

Syria: Jihadi group bans women from sitting on chairs

Jan 15, 2014 8:07 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Via RaymondIbrahim.com Last week I reported how the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Levant had, among other stipulations, issued a decree “banning” women from sitting on chairs. This information was derived from a Syrian news clip (link in original post). But no reason was given for this seemingly bizarre rule. However, digging around through […]

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Filed Under: women's rights in Islam

Raymond Ibrahim: The Hound of Jihad

Jan 15, 2014 8:04 am By Raymond Ibrahim

The relentlessness of Islamic jihadi enmity for non-Muslims appears to know no bounds””sometimes even pursuing “infidels” beyond the grave. While the West may hear of the more spectacular attacks on non-Muslims””bombed and burned churches and other places of worship, beheaded and slaughtered “infidels,” and wholesale massacres””lesser known is the fact that, far from receiving succor, […]

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Sinai: Jihadis use and abuse women and children in confrontation against military

Jan 10, 2014 9:00 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Egyptian authorities revealed yesterday that various terrorist (jihadi) organizations, particularly in the Sinai region””including the villages of Mahdiya, Ganoub Rifh, Sheikh Zawid, and al-Arish””are keeping the people in a state of terror and threatening to slaughter any that try to flee the region and/or expose them and their identities. Sources also say that the Egyptian […]

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Filed Under: Egypt

Raymond Ibrahim: Armenian Christians Pressured to Convert to Islam

Jan 10, 2014 8:58 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Arabic language websites reported earlier this week that the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant””which, throughout the course of the war against the Assad government has committed any number of atrocities, from decapitating “infidels” to burning churches””has successfully “forced” two Armenian Christian families to convert to Islam. A video accompanies some of these […]

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Filed Under: Syria

Raymond Ibrahim: Invisible Women – the Aftermath of Jihad

Jan 10, 2014 8:55 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Massacres, beheadings, rapes and the rest often take place whenever and wherever Islamic jihadis take over. Lesser known but no less eye-opening, however, is the aftermath of occupation””the everyday “rules” and laws the jihadis enforce once they”re in charge. Consider the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL) recent occupation of Raqqah, a city […]

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Filed Under: Sharia, women's rights in Islam

Syria: Jihadis firebomb new Christ statue and ancient monastery

Dec 15, 2013 10:05 am By Raymond Ibrahim

[via RaymondIbrahim.com, where links appear] Earlier this month, the Islamist-led opposition in Syria broadcast a video clip of a militant threatening the nation’s Christian minority, with a focus on the Cherubim monastery and the large Jesus statue recently erected in the region of Saidnaya in Damascus. In the video, images of militants firing rockets at […]

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Filed Under: Muslim persecution of Christians, Syria

Muslim man amputates hands ‘according to Sharia’

Dec 15, 2013 10:04 am By Raymond Ibrahim

“Infidels,” or non-Muslims, or the wrong kinds of Muslims (Alawites and Shia for example) are often seen as the natural recipients of Islamic violence, or jihad, as prescribed by Islamic law, the Sharia. Few, however, are aware exactly how Sharia can cause individual Muslims to do violence upon themselves. Last week, December 5, Arabic news […]

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Raymond Ibrahim: Three American Teachers Slaughtered for Christian Faith in Muslim World

Dec 15, 2013 10:03 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Ronald Thomas Smith Why was Ronald Thomas Smith II, an American teaching at Benghazi’s International School, shot to death last Thursday in Libya, even as he “was looking forward to his first Christmas in the United States with his wife and toddler son”? Most Western media and analysts dismiss the killing as a random act […]

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Filed Under: Muslim persecution of Christians

Twenty-three million Coptic Christians in Egypt, says authority

Dec 12, 2013 6:10 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Dr. Essam Abdullah, a professor of philosophy at Egypt’s Ain Shams University and a regular political commentator on Arabic media, including Al Jazeera, recently made some startling remarks on a televised program: that there are “more than 23 million Copts in Egypt,” out of a total population of nearly 90 million, with an additional 7 […]

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Raymond Ibrahim: Islamic Jihad on Christian Nuns — A History

Dec 12, 2013 6:03 am By Raymond Ibrahim

The nuns in captivity Yet another phenomenon with a long paper trail in Islamic history has just taken place, even as the Western “mainstream–”little acquainted with true history or reality””dismisses it as an aberration. Asia News has the details: Islamist rebels have kidnapped a group of nuns from the Greek Orthodox monastery of St Thecla […]

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Filed Under: Muslim persecution of Christians

Muslim cleric incites children to “˜slaughter” Christians and Alawites in Syria

Dec 12, 2013 5:06 am By Raymond Ibrahim

[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] A video recently appeared of an Islamic Sunni cleric in Syria inciting Muslim schoolboys, most of whom appear to be between the ages of five-twelve, to hate and kill Christians and others. According to a report in Arabic (scroll down for video), among other things, the sheikh calls on the children to “slaughter […]

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Filed Under: Muslim persecution of Christians, Sharia

New study exposes scandalous fatwas of Brotherhood and Salafis in Egypt

Nov 28, 2013 7:09 am By Raymond Ibrahim

[via RaymondIbrahim.com] As the full ramification of the Muslim Brotherhood’s year in power continues to be exposed, a new study by Al Azhar’s Fatwa Committee dedicated to exploring the fatwas, or Islamic decrees, issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis””the Islamists””was recently published. Al Azhar, in Cairo, is considered by many to be one of the […]

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Filed Under: Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia

“˜Largest massacre of Christians in Syria” ignored in the West

Nov 22, 2013 12:01 pm By Raymond Ibrahim

[Via RaymondIbrahim.com, where all links appear] The worst Christian massacre””complete with mass graves, tortured-to-death women and children, and destroyed churches””recently took place in Syria, at the hands of the U.S.-supported jihadi “rebels”; and the U.S. government and its “mainstream media” mouthpiece are, as usual, silent. The massacre took place in Sadad, an ancient Syriac Orthodox […]

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Filed Under: Muslim persecution of Christians, Syria

Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Blood Superior to Infidel Blood

Nov 21, 2013 6:58 am By Raymond Ibrahim

[via RaymondIbrahim.com] Arguing that Muslim blood is more precious than infidel blood, Muslim clerics in and out of Sudan are outraged because a Sudanese court has condemned a Muslim man to death””simply because he murdered a non-Muslim, the American diplomat John Granville on January 1, 2008. A 2009 report offers context: The court had sentenced […]

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Filed Under: Islamic supremacism

Biblical separation of church and state contradicts Koran, says Salafi leader

Nov 21, 2013 6:53 am By Raymond Ibrahim

The same Islamic cleric who insists that Muslim husbands must hate their non-Muslim wives, recently issued a fatwa arguing that the biblical statement attributed to Jesus”””Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s” (Matt 22:21)””does not, as widely believed by Christians for some two millennia, mean that […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Sharia

Raymond Ibrahim: BBC Minimizes Christian Persecution

Nov 21, 2013 6:51 am By Raymond Ibrahim

While it is no secret that the so-called mainstream media habitually fail to report on the international phenomenon of Christian persecution, few are aware that they sometimes actively work to undermine the efforts of those who do expose it. Consider a new report by the BBC titled “Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every […]

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Filed Under: Muslim persecution of Christians, Useful idiots

Obama accused of “˜crimes against humanity” for being an accessory to the Muslim Brotherhood

Nov 9, 2013 8:53 am By Raymond Ibrahim

[Via RaymondIbrahim.com, where all supporting links appear] According to Egyptian newspaper El Watan, a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint charging U.S. president Barrack Hussein Obama with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. The complaint charges Obama of being an accessory to the Muslim Brotherhood, which incited widespread violence in Egypt […]

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Filed Under: Egypt, United States

Morsi’s Christian-Persecuting Lawyer

Nov 6, 2013 8:55 am By Raymond Ibrahim

At the same time the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to deny its pivotal role in inciting the recent and ongoing spate of attacks on Egyptians in general, Coptic Christians in particular, the organization has just chosen one of the worst inciters of violence against Egypt’s Copts as head attorney for ousted president Muhammad Morsi. For […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim persecution of Christians

Raymond Ibrahim: Exploiting Christian Persecution to Demonize Israel

Nov 6, 2013 7:52 am By Raymond Ibrahim

[Links at RaymondIbrahim.com] What’s worse than the silence of Western Christians concerning the Muslim persecution of their coreligionists in the Islamic world? Answer: Cynically exploiting that persecution for a political agenda””in the case of a recent Daily Beast article, to excoriate the state of Israel and its supporters. Titled “Why Won’t the West Defend Middle […]

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Filed Under: Islamic supremacism, Israel, journalistic bias, Muslim persecution of Christians

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