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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood says new constitution must be based on Islamic Shariah law

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Washington Post:

CAIRO — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said Wednesday it is committed to enshrining Islamic Shariah law as the main source of a new constitution, seeking to mollify ultraconservative Islamists who accuse the group of not advocating strongly enough for Islamic rule.

Islamic influence in Egypt’s governance is the most inflammatory issue following last year’s ousting of longtime President Hosni Mubarak. Islamists have swept elections since then, and the Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi is the president — but the Brotherhood faces criticism from even more stringent Islamists as much as from liberals.

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No Blinders about Egypt under Muslim Brotherhood

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New English Review:

An Interview with Raymond Stock
by Jerry Gordon and Raymond Stock (November 2012)

In December 2010, after spending two decades in Egypt as an academic and translator of the works of Egyptian Nobel Laureate, the late Naguib Mahfouz, ex-pat Detroit native, Raymond Stock was denied entry and deported by the Mubarak regime. He had apparently crossed the line when in 2009, he authored a Foreign Policy article, “Very, Very Lost in Translation,” about the anti-Semitic rants of former Mubarak cultural minister, Farouk Hosni, who was jockeying to be nominated as head of UNESCO. Stock wrote of Hosni:

To say that Farouk Hosni doesn’t much like Israel is putting it lightly. According to the Anti-Defamation League, he has called it “inhuman,” and “an aggressive, racist, and arrogant culture, based on robbing other people’s rights and the denial of such rights.” He has accused Jews of “infiltrating” world media. And in May 2008, Hosni outdid even himself, telling the Egyptian parliament that he would “burn right in front of you” any Israeli books found in the country’s libraries.

Less surprising but also sadly true is that Hosni’s opinions about Israeli culture are par for the course among Egypt’s intelligentsia, for whom 30 years of official peace with the Jewish state, the longest of any Arab country, have done virtually nothing to moderate its rampant Judeophobia. If anything, the opposite might be true.

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Angry mob bars church goers in Beni Suef

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H/T Jihad Watch:

Daily News Egypt

Over the past year, an increasing number of sectarian-related incidents of violence have taken place

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Two Copts were injured as a result of violence brought about by the predominantly conservative Muslim crowd barring the entrance. (KHALED DESOUKI/ AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES)

Two Copts were injured as a result of violence brought about by the predominantly conservative Muslim crowd barring the entrance. (KHALED DESOUKI/ AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES)

A large mob in the village of Ezbet Marco, in the Beni Suef governorate, gathered around the only Coptic Church in the area on Sunday morning, forbidding Copts from neighbouring villages from entering the church.

According to Ishak Ibrahim, a journalist and researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, two Copts were injured as a result of violence brought about by the predominantly conservative Muslim crowd barring the entrance.

As the church is the only church in the area, it is very hard for Copts in neighbouring villages to pray elsewhere. As the mob maintained their blockade of the church skirmishes occurred, and two Copts identified by Ibrahim as Sobhi Saleh and Ibrahim Sadeq reportedly suffered from fractured arms and feet. Cars were also damaged in the scuffle.

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Al-Qaeda leader calls on Muslims to kidnap Westerners

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France 24

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, pictured in September 2012, has urged Egyptians to restart their revolution to press for Islamic law and called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, the SITE Intelligence Group said Friday.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, pictured in September 2012, has urged Egyptians to restart their revolution to press for Islamic law and called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, the SITE Intelligence Group said Friday

AFP – Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Egyptians to restart their revolution to press for Islamic law and called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, the SITE Intelligence Group said Friday.

In a video released on jihadist forums and translated by the US monitoring service, Zawahiri also lashed out at President Barack Obama, calling him a liar and demanding he admit defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan and North Africa.

Criticizing the new Egyptian government — led by a president drawn from the Muslim Brotherhood — as corrupt, he said a battle is being waged in Egypt between a secular minority and Muslims seeking implementation of Shariah law.

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Morsi mouths ‘Amen’ as Egyptian preacher urges ‘Allah, destroy the Jews’

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Seems to be ‘Islamic-antisemitism-day at Vlad today.

 Times of Israel:

Egyptian TV shows president in fervent prayer as cleric delivers anti-Semitic address

By October 21, 2012, 4:42 pm

President Mohammed Morsi at prayer on October 19 at el-Taneim Mosque in Matrouh governorate (photo credit: MEMRI screenshot)

President Mohammed Morsi at prayer on October 19 at el-Taneim Mosque in Matrouh governorate (photo credit: MEMRI screenshot)

Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi participated in prayers over the weekend in which the preacher urged Allah to “destroy the Jews and their supporters.”

In footage of the service from Matrouh governorate’s el-Tenaim Mosque screened on Egyptian state television on Friday,

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New FJP leader in Egypt calls for Sharia law

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J-Post:

By JPOST.COM STAFF
10/20/2012 02:36

Saad al-Katatny elected head of Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, says goal is to “institute Islamic Sharia law.”

Saad Al-KatatnyPhoto: REUTERS/POOL New

Saad al-Katatny was elected chairman of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, Egyptian media reported Friday. He beat out FJP’s acting leader Essam al- Erian in a vote that took place October 6.

The FJP is Egypt’s largest political party, currently occupying 47 percent of all seats in the country’s lower house of parliament.

Katatny hailed his election as “a first step” towards achieving the goals of the FJP, according to Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper.

In this respect, Katatny was quoted as saying that “The Muslim Brotherhood established the [FJP] to represent the Brotherhood’s political project, which, in the end, will be a wise government that will institute Islamic Shari’a law.”

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FRANCE 24 journalist (sexually) assaulted in Cairo

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Sooner or later we, the Western world, are going to have to have a chat with ourselves about our values, what they mean to us and whether or not we are ready to defend them.

The Western world likes to pretend that men and women are equal in all ways as opposed to equal before the law, which is a rational, not to mention actionable, way to look at reality.

The Muslims of course, have their own version of what women’s rights are and this is evidenced by what you see wherever Islam has the whip hand no matter what Muslims tell you when they are trying to seem liberal for the purpose of rhetorical attack or defense.

Western news agencies continue to send women to cover events at Tahrir Square despite the multiple rapes and various forms of gang-sexual-assault on female reporters because they have to. If they send men instead, then the savages win in a sense. They have forced us to submit to the reality of Islamic views of women despite our insistence that the risk or danger is the same for both, or perhaps more importantly, that women may be able to sue a news organization for discrimination if they are not sent because they are women and at greater risk. At the end of the day, we have some things to sort out on our own before we can start enforcing policies. Women’s groups really should start writing policy in terms of home and abroad rights and responsibilities as well.

The time for dealing with reality is now. Islam and it’s fictions and violence are forcing us to deal with our own fictions. We cannot put up a decent fight till we are aware of them and ready to revise them or fight for them.

Eeyore for Vlad and H/T to Snaphanen.Dk for the story link

From France 24

FRANCE 24 journalist assaulted in Cairo

FRANCE 24 journalist Sonia Dridi filed a police complaint with Egyptian police on Saturday, one day after she was assaulted by a crowd of men while reporting on a demonstration at Cario’s Tahrir Square.

By FRANCE 24 (text)

FRANCE 24 journalist Sonia Dridi filed a police complaint with Egyptian police on Saturday, a day after she was assaulted while reporting on a protest in the capital Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

Dridi had just finished giving a live news report at around 10:30pm on Friday for FRANCE 24’s French language television when a crowd of men teemed around her, shoving and grabbing at her body.

“I was surrounded by my team, so I didn’t feel like I was in any particular danger,” Dridi told FRANCE 24 in a televised interview, saying that the camera crew had attracted a crowd of curious bystanders. “I was able to do my live report but at the end of it the atmosphere was really tense.”

FRANCE 24 journalist Sonia Dridi thanks colleague Ashra Khalil for protecting her

Thanks to @ashrafkhalil for protecting me in #Tahrir last nite. Mob was pretty intense. thanks to him I escaped from the unleashed hands.

— Sonia Dridi (@Sonia_Dridi) Octobre 20, 2012

“The crowd encircled us…It was mostly young men, but not only. They started to touch me and I held onto my colleague, who tried to reassure me and hold my attention so we could get out of the crowd as fast as possible,” Dridi added.

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Muslim Gang Attempts to Kidnap Egyptian Christian Mother, 4 Dead

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By Mary Abdelmassih

AINA:

(AINA) — Ali Hussein, a 35-year-old Muslim gang leader, entered the home of a Coptic Christian family in the village of Abdelmassih in Deir Mawas on at 7 A.M. on Sunday and demanded that Hiyam Zaki Zaher, the 25 year old mother of two children, come live with him. Ali Hussein was accompanied by his two brothers, both ex-convicts. Two weeks before Ali Hussein told the Marzouk family that he would either take the woman or they would have to pay him 1,000,000 Egyptian pounds.

“The family managed to get Hiyam out of the village one day before Ali Hussein came to their house,” said Roshdy Ibrahim, a relative of the Marzouk family. He said that when Hussein went into the home he was met by 24-year-old family member Ephrem, a university graduate, who rejected his demand, upon which Hussein shot him twice, killing him instantly. Roushdy said that Hussein had instructed 120 of his men to wait outside and come in and start shooting if they heard gunfire.

After the shooting of Ephrem the gang broke into the house. They encountered the father, 61 year-old Ibrahim Marzouk, a retired village bank manager, and killed him. They shot everywhere, wounding another three family members on the roof. Although Hussein was also killed under the hail of bullets, it is not clear who shot him.

To terrorize the inhabitants of the village, before the Muslim gang went into the Marzouk home they went to the stables and killed all the animals.

The body of Hussein was removed from the scene to the morgue in Mallawi General Hospital amid tight security as a large number of Salafis and his supporters surrounded the hospital and demanded revenge for the Christian killing of a Muslim man. The Muslims chanted that Hussein is “the beloved of the Prophet.”

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Egypt: Teacher cuts off students’ hair for not wearing hijab

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ANSAMED:

Primary schoolteacher disciplined

17 October, 18:02

(ANSAmed) – CAIRO, OCTOBER 17 – Education officials took disciplinary action against a primary school teacher in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Luxor after she cut off two female students’ hair as a punishment for not wearing hijabs, or Islamic veils, Al-Ahram online newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The teacher, who was reported to authorities by the children’s parents, had previously threatened to cut off the hair of any students who showed up in class with bare heads.

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‘Egypt heading towards Sharia enforcement’

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Russia TV

Published: 13 October, 2012, 05:30

Egyptians government supporters throw stones at opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohamed Morsi during clashes in Tahrir square in Cairo on October 12, 2012 (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)

Egyptians government supporters throw stones at opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohamed Morsi during clashes in Tahrir square in Cairo on October 12, 2012 (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)

As Egypt’s liberal and secular activists erupted with anger accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of trying to take over the country, former US Senate foreign policy analyst James Jatras tells RT that Egypt is on its way to becoming a caliphate.

­“Morsi and the Brotherhood had triumphed much quicker than anybody expected, and no one should doubt what their intentions are: strict enforcement of Sharia and the recreation of the caliphate,” Jatras says.

RT: Friday showed that Egypt is far from calm. What does it tell us about the results of President Morsi’s first 100 days in office?

James Jatras: We are seeing a rapid Islamization of the political structure in Egypt, and nobody should be surprised by this. There was a lot of discussion about the power struggle that would ensue between Morsi and the military, and it seems that Morsi and the Brotherhood had triumphed much quicker than anybody expected. And no one should doubt what their intentions are: strict enforcement of Sharia and the recreation of the caliphate, the Khilafah. So I think this statement about jihad, to recapture Jerusalem, should not come as any surprise to anyone.

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Remember the bible burning imam in Egypt? Get ready for a show trial.

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Remember this guy?

Well get ready for a pointless show trial and feeble attempt to make it look like anyone in the Muslim world cares about anything other than their barbarian selves. In fact, given that this was written in Sept. 26 I would bet that this was about the extent of it already.

From Digital Journal:

Islamic television station owner to face trial for Bible burning

Cairo– Radical Egyptian Islamist Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah, owner of an Islamic television station which uses veiled women as presenters, is to face trial for burning a Bible during protests outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo over the film “Innocence of Muslims.”

Digital Journalreported that Coptic Christians in Egypt filed a complaint against Abdullah, who is also known as Abu Islam in his role as a Muslim cleric. Amidst the devastating Islamic protests that have shaken the world, Abdullah’s bout of Bible burning drew little international attention.

US News reported Abdullah was filmed tearing the Bible before burning it as he promised “Next time I will urinate on it.”

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Speaking of the charges Abdullah said“I had always wished to go to court to explain to the world that there is no such thing as the Bible. Every church in the West has its own holy book.”

The Egyptian law that allows those who insult religion to be prosecuted has primarily been used to prosecute those who insult Islam.

Al-Qaida leader al-Zawahri urges Muslims to fight US over Prophet film

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I guess all that apologizing by Obama really didn’t help. Well I can offer a hint should Mr. Obama desire it.

Even a full on surrender to Islam and conversion won’t stop these events. Because Islam knows when it loses. But it can’t possibly know when it wins. Because when the only guaranteed way into Mohamed’s beer-and-brothel afterlife is dying in the way of jihad, how can you possibly stop fighting?

From Yahoo News:

CAIRO – The leader of Al-Qaida has urged Muslims to wage holy war against the United States and Israel over a film that insulted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Ayman al-Zawahri praised as “honest and zealous” demonstrators who breached the U.S Embassy in Cairo and attackers who stormed the U.S. “embassy” in Benghazi in violence linked to the film. The American ambassador and three others died in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city.

The amateur film “Innocence of Muslims” was made by an Egyptian-born American citizen.

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