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Egyptians deploy 2000 soldiers to Sanai to thwart potential Islamic terror

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From Al Masri Al Youm

 Egypt’s military deployed to Sinai to defend from potential terror attacks

Flames rise after an explosion near the town of El-Arish, Egypt, 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the border with Israel, July 4, 2011. Unidentified assailants blew up the Egyptian pipeline that carries gas to Israel and Jordan early on Monday, starting a fire and disrupting the flow of the gas, security officials said.

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Egyptian authorities on Friday deployed over 2000 soldiers to the Sinai Peninsula to thwart possible attacks by Islamist militants, security sources said.

“More than 2000 policemen and several military armored vehicles were stationed around security premises in North Sinai’s Arish city,” the sources said.

“The security deployment is for defense purposes only,” said Abdel Wahad Mabrouk, the governor of North Sinai. “We are not chasing anyone in Sinai’s mountains,” Mabrouk added, referring to the peninsula’s caves, which have been traditionally used as special hideouts for Bedouin smugglers and Islamist militants.

On Thursday, the American television station CNN reported that Egyptian authorities were preparing to launch an operation against Al-Qaeda cells that had recently been established in Sinai. Continue Reading →

Muslims Attack Christian Village in Egypt — 1 Murdered, Homes Looted and Torched

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(AINA)

Muslims attacked Christians in the village of Nazlet Faragallah, in the southern Egyptian Minya province, on Sunday evening. The attack continued until the early hours of Monday morning, August 8. One Copt was murdered and homes were looted and torched when Muslims from Nazlet Faragallah together with Muslims from four neighboring villages started their violence at approximately 8 PM, after breaking their Ramadan fast.

According to eyewitnesses, thousands of Muslims entered the village from all sides, firing automatic weapons (mostly in the air), looting and throwing Molotov Cocktails at several homes. “They even destroyed our irrigation pumps,” said one witness.

The first attack was on the house of Father Youanes, pastor of St. George Church, which lies at the head of the village. He was beaten and his home was looted and torched.

Maher Nassif Tobias (50), an employee at the local council, was murdered in his home. He was found by his son. His house was completely looted, including his livestock.

Security forces arrived 4 hours after the attack began and there were too few of them. “They only had batons in their hands, and were unable to control the situation,” said a Coptic village resident. “Our village is surrounded by corn fields. The Muslims came into the village to loot and quickly disappeared in the fields, the police could not follow them. They were coming from all directions at the same time.”

Nazlet Faragallah has 8000 inhabitants, 80% are Copts and 20% Muslims.

The events were preceded on Saturday by an altercation caused by Muslims harassing Christian girls as they came out of a church service in the late afternoon. Stones were hurled by Muslims at the church, breaking five windows. A “reconciliation” meeting took place. Some 200 Copts staged a sit-in in front of St. George’s Church on Sunday afternoon to protest against Muslim attack on the church.

In a statement tonight, the security authorities in Minya said the Muslim attack on Nazlet Faragallah was caused by a group of Copts, headed by Haddar Ishaq, firing at Muslims as they came out of the mosque on Sunday afternoon. Copts in the village denied this claim.

Three Muslims were arrested yesterday and three Copts today. None of the Copts were involved in any incident, and one of them had broken his leg two weeks before. “Security is doing its balancing act again,” said one of the villagers. “They will use these Copts, who were arrested at random, to bargain for their freedom in exchange for village Copts giving up their rights during the ‘reconciliation’ meeting.”

It was reported that Muslim women walked the streets today, warning that after breaking the Ramadan fast the men would come to finish the Christians off, but this did not happen, as security was present in large numbers in the village and preparations were being made for another “reconciliation” meeting to take place on August 9.

By Mary Abdelmassih

BBC: Thousands gather in Tahrir square demanding a sharia state.

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Man, that’s nearly as many people as they can get for a march demanding an Islamic state in London.

From the BBC


Egypt uprising: Islamists lead Tahrir Square rally

The protest is one of the largest since the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak
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Tens of thousands of people have packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square, after the first call by Islamist leaders for nationwide demonstrations since President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February.

Many protesters – dominated by Muslim Brotherhood supporters – are calling for an Islamic state and Sharia law.

Correspondents say the rallies will be a worrying development for secularists.

The Brotherhood is the most organised political force in Egypt, although it was not prominent in the revolution.

Tensions have been running high between Egypt’s Islamist and secular groups, who are at odds over the transition to democracy in the Arab world’s most populated country.

Casualties
Later there were a number of casualties when violence broke out in a separate incident in Sinai.

“We have two bodies of civilians in the morgue now and 12 police conscripts being treated for injuries in hospital,” Hisham Shiha, Egypt’s deputy health minister, told state television.

Around 100 armed men drove around the city of El-Arish, shouting Islamic slogans, and firing into the air, before attacking a police station. Continue Reading →

A day in the life of a Coptic Christian in Egypt

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After the three witnesses gave testimony at the Congressional hearings on persecution of Christians in Egypt by Muslims, there was a question and answer session.

Here is one question and answer which struck me as especially heartbreaking.

“What is life like on a day to day basis for a Coptic Christian now like in Egypt?”
The idea that the speakers from minarets in Egyptian mosques actually blare hate speech against Christians. If it happens there, how long till it’s here?

Witnesses to the US congressional committee on the persecution of Coptic peoples by Muslims in Egypt

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This is amazing. The systemic horrors being perpetrated on an entire people seems like it would actually fit the U.N. definition of ‘Genocide’. Muslim Egyptians stripping Copts of identity, freedoms and even any human dignity.

I took these videos from C-Span and will post one at a time as I get them done. Here is witness #1 below. The rest I will post here, and in new posts, as I complete them. If you want to watch all of this testimony with commentary and so on please click through to C-SPAN here.

1st Coptic conference in Australia

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I must admit, Australia, as it often if not always does, is starting to punch above its weight in the war against Islam and totalitarian leftism. Below, a video from the first Coptic rights conference in Oz. In the post below, a main-stream media video which interviews members of the Q society, a group which has appeared on Vlad before, and are a very interesting group. I hope it spreads throughout the West.

Great darkness in Egypt

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From Ynet

 

Special: Uprising hopes give way to growing Islamism, racism and anti-Israel venom

Eldad Beck

UPPER EGYPT – Maha, an Egyptian merchant in her 40s, doesn’t sleep well at night. Ever since the January 25 revolution, she is experiencing a difficult period. “In the first days of the mass demonstrations against Mubarak, my mother and me couldn’t even sleep because of fear,” said the Christian Copt. “We didn’t know what will happen to us. Ever since then, even though the general security situation in the country has stabilized, our fears were confirmed.”

In recent months we have seen significant escalation in violent clashes between radical Islamists and members of the Copt minority across Egypt. It started with the lethal suicide attack in one of Alexandria’s main churches in the first days of the year, even before the popular protest against Mubarak gained steam. Twenty three worshippers were murdered and some 100 were wounded.

Copt protestor in Egypt (Photo: Reuters)

 

Egyptian opposition sources claimed at the time that the attack was organized by a secret unit established by the former interior minister in order to undermine domestic stability and reinforce the regime’s hold on the country. A few weeks ago, when angry Islamist masses attacked a Cairo church where two Christian women who converted to Islam were apparently held, some charged that loyalists of the outgoing regime were identified among the radical Muslim activists. Ten people were killed in the clash, while security forces stood at the sidelines and observed.

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A leader of Egypt’s secularist and “liberal” party says Holocaust is a lie

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From Amnation.com

 

H/T Bad Faun

James P writes:

 

Subject: Egyptian liberal democracy in action!A Holocaust denier and a 9/11 Truther–who could ask for a more benign political figure in the new, democratic Egypt? Hooray for freedom and democracy!

 

Here’s the article from the Jerusalem Post that James sent:

 

Anne Frank a ‘fake,’ says ‘liberal’ Egyptian leader
By OREN KESSLER
07/06/2011 20:30
A leader of Egypt’s most influential secular party on Wednesday dismissed the Holocaust as a “lie,” the Diary of Anne Frank as a “fake” and the September 11 attacks as “made in the USA.”The comments by the vice chairman of the putatively liberal Wafd Party pour cold water on lingering hopes that post- Mubarak Egypt could serve as an exemplar of a modern, progressive democracy in the Arab world’s most populous state.

“The Holocaust is a lie,” Ahmed Ezz el-Arab told The Washington Times in an interview.

“The Jews under German occupation were 2.4 million. So if they were all exterminated, where does the remaining 3.6 million come from?” Ezz el-Arab said he accepted that the Germans had killed “hundreds of thousands” of Jews, “but gas chambers and skinning them alive and all this? Fanciful stories.”

Ezz el-Arab dismissed The Diary of Anne Frank, which he said he studied as a doctoral student in Sweden, as a forgery.

“I could swear to God it’s a fake,” he said. “The girl was there, but the memoirs are a fake.”

The deputy chairman also questioned the accepted account of the September 11 attacks. Osama bin Laden “could not have the know-how or the ability to do it,” he said, calling the al-Qaida leader “an American agent.” Continue Reading →

Two Christian Girls Disappear From State Care Home in Egypt

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AINA:

(AINA) — Parents and lawyers of Christian teens Nancy Fathy and her cousin Christine Fathy, who allegedly converted to Islam, were shocked to learn the two girls have been taken by security officers from the care home where they were entrusted by the attorney general and held in a undisclosed place without knowledge or consent of the attorney general.

Lawyer Amgad Mourad said he went to the orphanage in Hadayel el_Koba on July 3 with the girls’ parents, but were surprised to learn that Nancy and Christine were taken by security from the orphanage on June 29. “We contacted south Cairo prosecution general, who was surprised and defensive, as we had a meeting yesterday with the General Council for Childhood and Motherhood and we were assured of the presence of Nancy and Christine in the orphanage.”

Today, lawyers with the parents went to south Cairo general prosecutor and were told by him the teens are in a safe place with public security, as they were afraid the parents may go to the orphanage and create problems there, according to Mourad. “Still we were not told where they are staying.”

According to attorney Dr Naguib Gabriel, President of the Egyptian Union Organization of Human Rights, who is also one of the lawyers representing the parents of the Christian girls, the girls were moved to another place because of the threats of violence issued by the unlawful Muslim group calling itself “Alliance for the Support of New Female Muslims.” Continue Reading →

Calm returns to Egypt Minya after clashes

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By Ashraf Sadek –

The Egyptian Gazette
Sunday, July 3, 2011 03:01:19 PM

CAIRO – A cautious calm has returned to a small town in the Upper Egyptian Governorate of Minya following a day of clashes between Muslims and Copts over harassment of women that left seven people injured, police officials said.

 

Samallout Central Hospital stated it had treated seven people for gunshot wounds. But there were no reports of fatalities.
A clash broke out after a Muslim microbus driver harassed a young Christian woman, the officials said, adding that a number of shops were burned to the ground during the unrest.
Police arrested a score of people and increased security in the town near Minya City for fear of further violence, the officials said. Continue Reading →

EGYPT: THOUSANDS IN TAHRIR SQUARE, DEMANDING TRIALS

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(ANSAmed) – CAIRO, JULY 1 – Thousands of protesters, 10,000 according to some websites, have gathered in Tahrir Square to mark the “Friday of punishment and of martyrs”, a protest organised by young Egyptian revolutionaries and by the 6 April movement to demand trials against those who ordered the violent crackdown during the revolution of January and February and to show support for the families of around 800 “martyrs” killed over the period.

It has been a calm day in Cairo’s central square, after the violent incidents that took place in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A crowd of protesters gathered outside the Council of Ministers but did not attempt to break police lines, while another march attempted to reach the Interior Ministry, but was stopped by security forces. “The people want the death sentence for the murderer”, protesters cried, in reference to the former Interior Minister, Habib El Adly, while others called on the Prime Minister, Essam Sharaf, to “Come to the square”, the very place where he claimed upon taking office that he had received the legitimacy of the people. A number of relatives of young people killed during the anti-Mubarak uprising appeared on stage during the day.

A number of tents, many of them hastily improvised, have been set up in the centre of the square, in an echo of the January 25 revolution, while groups of protesters said that they were intending to spend the night there. (ANSAmed).

 

 

Egyptian Muslims Torch 8 Christian Homes on Rumor of Church Construction

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A mob of nearly 200 Muslims torched eight Christian homes on Saturday morning in the Upper Egyptian village of Awlad Khalaf. The attack was initiated by a rumor that a house which is being built by Wahib Halim Attia will be turned into a church. Two Christians and one Muslim were injured, no fatalities were reported.

Wahib Halim Attia obtained a license to build a house in the village on a 95 square meter plot. The house grew to an area of 350 square meters but was still on agricultural land that he owns. This gave rise to the rumor that he intended to build a church instead. Continue Reading →