St Mark’s Cathedral is the “seat of Egypt’s Orthodox Christian church and home to the office of its spiritual leader, Pope Tawadros II.” Muslim Brotherhood operatives have long hated Pope Tawadros and the Coptic Christians, blaming them for the toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in 2013, and considering them kuffar harbi, infidels at war […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Christian village on rumor of church opening, block road so fire trucks can’t enter
“Fanatic Muslims in the village of al-Naghameesh in Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, attacked the Copts in the village todayele Friday 25 November, on rumour that they were opening a church. A guesthouse owned by Ihab Tamer, a Coptic doctor, was burned, the façades of 10 Coptic-owned houses were damaged, and a house and […]
Egypt: Muslim police torture and murder Christian in police station
Egyptian Christians live precarious lives, at the mercy of Muslim authorities who are often eager to brutalize them, in line with their Islamic supremacist assumptions and world view — and when they do, the Christians have no recourse. “Police crime shocks, angers Egyptians,” by Nader Shukry and Rehab Gamal, Watani International, November 19, 2016 (thanks […]
Egypt: Christian children kicked out of school for refusing to wear hijab, recite Qur’an
The world “human rights community” will take little notice of this, if any. And why should they? After all, no “Islamophobia” is being committed. “Christian children KICKED OUT of school for refusing to wear hijab or recite Koran,” by Alix Culbertson, Express, November 6, 2016: CHRISTIAN children are being deprived of their education and being […]
Egypt: Salafis angered by ‘welcome’ for Coptic Christian pope
The Salafis of Egypt—those Muslims who strive to live according to the literal example of prophet Muhammad and his companions—are angry. But it’s not because groups like ISIS are “hijacking” their religion and committing atrocities in its name. Rather it’s because a sign by Egypt’s premiere Salafi party, the “Salafi Call,” appeared welcoming Coptic Christian […]
Why Egypt’s Muslims Are Bitter Towards Coptic Christians
An analysis of this story. At a time when Coptic Christians are suffering abuses “every two or three days” in Egypt, a Muslim woman in America has made a video calling for more Muslim hostility against the Christian minority, in this case, in the guise of an economic boycott. In a video, Ayat Oraby—a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer who has nearly […]
New York-based Egyptian Muslim activist calls for boycott of Copts: “The crescent must be on top of the cross”
Ayat Oraby lives in New York. What does Bill de Blasio think will be the result of the importation of large numbers of Muslims who think the way she does? Does he think that most Muslims disagree with the idea that “the crescent must be on top of the cross”? He is in for a […]
Egypt: “Christians are original inhabitants of the nation,” says Coptic bishop
Coptic Christian Bishop Daniel met with the Swiss Minister of exterior at the St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church, during the minister’s recent visit. The bishop said that, formally, the Church enjoys good relations with the state and Al Azhar, which represents Islam in Egypt, but less formally, on […]
Egyptian Christian teens sentenced for “defaming Islam” flee to Switzerland
What will they do when Switzerland becomes another Egypt? Where will they flee then? As the free world commits suicide, where will free people go? “Coptic Teenagers Sentenced in Egypt for ‘Defaming Islam’ in Video Flee to Switzerland,” Morning Star News, September 3, 2016: Sentenced to prison in Egypt for allegedly insulting Islam in a […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Meet Ahmed al-Tayeb, the “Most Influential Muslim in the World”
There’s nothing like knowing Arabic—that is, being privy to the Muslim world’s internal conversations on a daily basis—to disabuse oneself of the supposed differences between so-called “moderate” and “radical” Muslims. Consider the case of Egypt’s Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb. Hardly one to be dismissed as a fanatic who is ignorant of the true tenets of Islam, […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Insult after Injury: Egypt’s Muslim-Christian ‘Reconciliation Meetings’
We often hear about Egypt’s Christians being attacked by Muslim mobs. What we rarely hear about is what happens afterwards. Are the culprits imprisoned? Are the victims compensated? Do authorities take measures to help prevent such attacks from happening again? While the acquainted reader may correctly assume no, the anatomy of what always takes place […]
Egypt: Christian’s home burned by Muslims, told to withdraw complaint or “there will be blood”
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Christian girl recalls horror when Islamist radicals attacked and burned their home in Egypt,” by Hazel Torres, Christian Today, August 6, 2016: Imagine the horror that gripped members of a Coptic Christian family in Egypt when they saw a mob of angry Muslim radicals attacking and burning their home in […]
Coptic bishop: Egypt’s Christians attacked ‘every two or three days’
After the latest round of attacks on Egypt’s Christian minority—which saw at least one Copt stabbed to death and many Christian homes and a church burned—Coptic Bishop Makarious of al-Minya, the region where many of the attacks on Christians take place, was interviewed on television. Although Church authorities in Egypt are regularly diplomatic and sensitive […]
Video: Robert Spencer on the Muslim Brotherhood’s persecution of Christians
In this new video, I explain why a prominent Coptic Christian organization supports the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
Muslim mob of 5,000 screaming “Egypt is Islamic” attacks Christians for building church
Where is Franciscan Action Network spokesman Jason L. Miller on this? Too busy writing trumped-up stories about “Islamophobia” to examine actual religious persecution? Of course, in this case the perpetrators are Muslims, so if he were to speak out too strenuously about this, he would end up in dutch with the U.S. Conference of Catholic […]
Ramadan in Egypt: Muslims kill Christian priest with hail of bullets outside church
Did Fr. Raphael provoke them in some way? Did he draw Muhammad? Did he opine that Islam was not a religion of peace? Or could his murder simply have been provoked by who he was, as an Infidel, a Christian priest? Why are Church leaders in the West so uniformly silent about the Muslim persecution […]
Egypt: Muslim mob loots, torches Christian homes over rumors of church construction
“The subject peoples … are forbidden to build new churches.” (Reliance of the Traveller, o11.5). Islamic law also forbids Christians to repair existing churches. “Muslim Mob in Egypt Attacks Christian Homes after Rumors of Church Construction,” International Christian Concern, June 20, 2016 (thanks to Maurice): 06/20/2016 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern […]
Egypt: Muslims who stripped and paraded Christian woman were screaming “Allahu akbar”
They were screaming “Allahu akbar” because as far as they were concerned, they were performing a pious action. The intention was to humiliate not just this 70-year-old woman, but the Christians in general, in accord with Qur’anic imperatives regarding the People of the Book: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the […]
Raymond Ibrahim: 70-Year-Old Christian Women Stripped and Paraded by Muslims Not First to Suffer This Way
[Detailed updates on this story] A 70-year-old Christian woman was stripped naked, savagely beat, and paraded in the streets of Egypt to jeers, whistles, and yells of “Allahu Akbar,” after a mob of some 300 armed Muslim men descended on her home.[1] Her crime? Her son is falsely accused of having a romantic relationship with […]
Egypt: Muslims strip 70-year-old Christian woman naked, parade her through village
Her crime? There were “rumors about a romantic relationship between her son and a Muslim girl.” In Islamic law, Muslim women are forbidden to marry Christian men, although Muslim men may marry Christian women. The idea is that the non-Muslim community must perpetually be kept in a state of decline. A Coptic source inside Egypt […]