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 […]
Egypt: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” attacks Christians, forces closure of church
“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 […]
Egypt: Muslims open fire on bus full of Christians on way to monastery, at least seven murdered
Christians in Egypt have endured discrimination, harassment, and sometimes open persecution for fourteen centuries. When Arab armies invaded Egypt, it was 99% Christian, but over the centuries, the institutionalized second-class status of dhimmitude that the Muslim rulers imposed upon the Christian population reduced the Christians to a small minority in their native land. This kind […]
Egypt: Muslim mob attacks Christian homes, injuring three people
The persecution of Christians in Egypt is ongoing. But the United Nations and other alleged global enforcers of human rights are too busy issuing condemnations of Israel and hunting for incidents of “Islamophobia” to take any significant notice. “Coptic diocese says group attacked Christian homes in Egypt,” Daily Journal, September 1, 2018: CAIRO — A […]
Egypt: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” encouraged by police in attack on church
Islamic law is clear: “The subject peoples … are forbidden to build new churches.” (Reliance of the Traveller, o11.5). That’s why these Muslims riot at the prospect of a new church being built, and why the police aid the rioters instead of the victims. The police agree with the rioters. “Egypt: Mob attack encouraged by […]
Egypt: Christians pelted with rocks, four churches closed as government treats prayer “as a crime”
According to the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of Minya, in describing the worsening state of persecution against the Copts in Egypt: What happened within two weeks, hasn’t happen over years; churches are closed, the Coptic Christians are being attacked and their property destroyed, and there is no deterrent The walls have been closing in for the […]
Egypt: Muslim ex-kidnapper admits “they get paid for every Christian girl they bring in”
“If all goes to plan, the girls are also forced into marriage with a strict Muslim. Their husbands don’t love them, they just marry her to make her a Muslim. She will be hit and humiliated. And if she tries to escape, or convert back to her original religion, she will be killed.” Will the […]
Survivor of Islamic State massacre says jihadis told Christians to renounce faith, killed them when they refused
After every murder, they screamed “Allahu akbar.” Not that this has anything to do with Islam. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you […]
Ramadan eve in Egypt: Muslims murder 26 Christians in bus on way to monastery
Ramadan begins today. It is the month of jihad, the month when Muslims strive to please Allah more fervently. And so because murdering Infidels who are considered to be at war with Allah is a pious act, there is generally more bloodshed during Ramadan than during the rest of the year. “26 killed, 26 injured […]
Egypt: Muslim throws bomb at entrance of packed church
A man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers say could’ve been a repeat of the Two Saints Church attack in Alexandria, 2011, which left 23 dead, and 100 injured. The bomb was dismantled before exploding. The attack occurred during the late hours of Saturday, November […]
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 […]
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 […]
Raymond Ibrahim: The Jihad on Christian Church Tents
[Originally published by Gatestone Institute] A Christian church in Egypt was recently torched to the ground. According to a statement by the Coptic Christian diocese in Minya, Upper Egypt: “The Virgin Mary Church in Ismailiyah, which is about four miles north of Minya, was exposed to an attack by some extremists who set fire to and completely […]
Egypt: “Extremists reject having a church in the village”
Several Coptic Christian leaders and priests recently discussed the closures of their churches. For example, Fr. Stephen Shehata, undersecretary of the diocese of Samalout, Minya, explained how three of the diocese’s churches were shut down because they did not have the required licenses. When the diocese recently attempted to build a church in Abu Hannas, […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian tombs are being turned into “garbage dumps,” laments Christian leader
As often happens to Christian cemeteries in Muslim nations — whether at the hands of “ISIS” or the hands of “angry youth” — “the tombs of the Copts [Egypt’s indigenous Christians] are being turned into garbage dumps.” This was the urgent and recent message from Fr. Ayoub Yousef, who heads the Coptic Catholic church of […]
In Egypt, officials incite — and then cite — Muslim violence as reason not to renovate or build churches
Security forces in Upper Egypt recently arrested 10 Coptic Christians for trying to build a wall around a piece of vacant land in order to expand their current church into the territory or possibly even build a church. A church already exists in the village of Abu Hannas in Samalout, Minya; but, according to Father […]
Egypt: Christian pastor arrested for preaching Christ to Muslims
A Christian pastor was arrested in Egypt on the charge of preaching Christ to Muslims. On August 10, Arabic media reported that Islam Dayf, chief prosecutor in al-Minya governorate, ordered the imprisonment of Methat A., 37, who serves as a pastor of a church in the area. He is charged with preaching the Gospel and […]