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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 […]

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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

Egypt: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” attacks Christians, forces closure of church

Dec 12, 2018 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“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 […]

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Filed Under: Egypt, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Koum al-Raheb, Minya, Samalout

Egypt: Muslims open fire on bus full of Christians on way to monastery, at least seven murdered

Nov 2, 2018 10:17 am By Robert Spencer

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Minya, Sohag, St. Samuel the Confessor monastery

Egypt: Muslim mob attacks Christian homes, injuring three people

Sep 1, 2018 9:40 am By Robert Spencer

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Minya

Egypt: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” encouraged by police in attack on church

Jul 20, 2018 11:45 am By Robert Spencer

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Islamic antisemitism, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Ezbet Sultan Pasha, Minya, St. Karas the Anchorite Coptic Orthodox Church

Egypt: Christians pelted with rocks, four churches closed as government treats prayer “as a crime”

Nov 1, 2017 9:48 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt Tagged With: Minya

Egypt: Muslim ex-kidnapper admits “they get paid for every Christian girl they bring in”

Sep 24, 2017 12:20 pm By Robert Spencer

“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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Islamic supremacism, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Minya

Survivor of Islamic State massacre says jihadis told Christians to renounce faith, killed them when they refused

Jul 18, 2017 12:17 pm By Robert Spencer

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Minya

Ramadan eve in Egypt: Muslims murder 26 Christians in bus on way to monastery

May 26, 2017 9:01 am By Robert Spencer

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians, Ramadan Tagged With: Minya

Egypt: Muslim throws bomb at entrance of packed church

Dec 7, 2016 9:53 am By Raymond Ibrahim

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 […]

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Filed Under: Egypt, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Minya, Samalout, St. George church

Raymond Ibrahim: Insult after Injury: Egypt’s Muslim-Christian ‘Reconciliation Meetings’

Aug 12, 2016 10:53 pm By Raymond Ibrahim

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Bishop Makarious, Minya

Egypt: Christian’s home burned by Muslims, told to withdraw complaint or “there will be blood”

Aug 7, 2016 8:59 pm By Robert Spencer

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Minya, Susana Khalaf

Egypt: Muslims who stripped and paraded Christian woman were screaming “Allahu akbar”

Jun 1, 2016 5:02 pm By Robert Spencer

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Minya

Raymond Ibrahim: 70-Year-Old Christian Women Stripped and Paraded by Muslims Not First to Suffer This Way

May 28, 2016 10:18 am By Raymond Ibrahim

[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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Minya

Egypt: Muslims strip 70-year-old Christian woman naked, parade her through village

May 26, 2016 11:17 am By Robert Spencer

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Minya

Raymond Ibrahim: The Jihad on Christian Church Tents

May 17, 2016 7:19 am By Raymond Ibrahim

[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 […]

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Filed Under: Egypt, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Minya

Egypt: “Extremists reject having a church in the village”

Feb 11, 2016 8:28 am By Raymond Ibrahim

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, […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Fr. Stephen Shehata, Minya, Samalout

Egypt: Coptic Christian tombs are being turned into “garbage dumps,” laments Christian leader

Feb 6, 2016 8:11 am By Raymond Ibrahim

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 […]

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Filed Under: dhimmitude, Egypt Tagged With: Coptic Catholic church of St. George, Dalga, Fr. Ayoub Yousef, Minya, Upper Egypt

In Egypt, officials incite — and then cite — Muslim violence as reason not to renovate or build churches

Feb 1, 2016 11:47 pm By Raymond Ibrahim

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 […]

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Abu Hannas, Minya, Samalout

Egypt: Christian pastor arrested for preaching Christ to Muslims

Aug 12, 2015 7:23 pm By Raymond Ibrahim

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 […]

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Filed Under: Egypt, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Methat A., Minya

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