Extend this out over fourteen hundred years, and you see how the “Islamic world” was created. “Harassment and Persecution Faced by Egyptian Christians,” International Christian Concern, December 18, 2023: 12/18/2023 Egypt (International Christian Concern) — In a harrowing tale of religious persecution, Amina* endured harassment and threats in Beni Suef Governorate last year after moving […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Christian’s home over rumors that Christians were building an unlicensed church
Islamic law forbids the construction of new churches. Christians are “forbidden to ring church bells or display crosses, recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays, and are forbidden to build new churches” – Reliance of the Traveller o.11.5 (6,7) “Updates on the Persecuted Church – October 17, […]
Egypt: Christians, particularly women, face ongoing pressures to convert to Islam
According to Islamic law, Muslim man can marry a Christian woman without her having to convert to Islam, but her conversion is still desired, as it reinforces the growth of the Islamic community at the expense of the non-Muslim community, which is a core Islamic imperative (cf. Qur’an 8:39). “Pressured Conversions Bring Shame and Stigma […]
Egypt: Muslim authorities deny Coptic Christian couple custody in adoption case
The Christian family is being denied custody because every child is born Muslim. “Abu Huraira, narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Every child is born with a true faith (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone) but his parents convert him to Judaism or to Christianity or to Magainism, as an animal delivers a perfect […]
Egypt: Four-year-old child taken from adoptive Christian family because every child is born Muslim
“Abu Huraira, narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Every child is born with a true faith (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone) but his parents convert him to Judaism or to Christianity or to Magainism, as an animal delivers a perfect baby animal. Do you find it mutilated?’ Then Abu Huraira recited the holy […]
Egypt: Muslims murder two Coptic Christians in Sinai
The Islamic State (ISIS) has been active in Sinai for quite some time. The Egyptian government either will not or cannot do anything about it. Salama Moussa Waheeb and his son Hany were murdered because they were Christians. As this does not fit any media narrative, you’ll only hear about it here. “Two Copts shot […]
Egypt: Muslim screaming ‘there is no god but Allah’ stabs two Christians for selling beer
Sharia apologists in the West routinely insist that Sharia only applies to Muslims, and that non-Muslims therefore need not be concerned about it. They are, of course, lying. “In an urgent and exclusive video, the owner of a beer warehouse and his son were attacked in Al-Omraniyah,” translated from “بالفيديو عاجل وحصري ذبح صاحب مستودع […]
Egypt: ‘Extremist’ Muslim tries to kill Christian woman by cutting her neck with a sickle
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “An attempt to slaughter a Coptic in the village of Sharona in Minya,” translated from “محاولة ذبح قبطية في قرية شارونة بالمنيا,” Coptic Solidarity, June 15, 2022: A Coptic woman called Mona Wafdi Marzouk, 35, in the village of Sharona, Maghagha district, Minya governorate, was […]
Egypt: Muslim ‘extremist’ attacks Christian with meat cleaver, killing him
Egyptian authorities claim that the perpetrator was mentally ill, but the victim’s family rejects this. He was a jihadi. “Cyril Majali succumbed to his injuries after being attacked with a machete in Akhmim by an extremist,” translated from “وفاة كيرلس مجلى متأثرًا بإصابته بعد الاعتداء عليه بساطور بأخميم على يد متطرف,” by Nader Shukry, Wataninet, […]
Egypt: Christian is shot 22 times, family says Islamic jihadis are responsible
Christians in Egypt and many other Muslim countries live with the knowledge that this sort of thing could happen at any time. “Young Coptic Christian Shot 22 Times,” International Christian Concern, April 29, 2022: 04/29/2022 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that four unidentified masked men shot down a young […]