Category Archives: Egypt

Muslims Surround Church in Upper Egypt, Threaten to Kill Priest

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From AINA News:

(AINA) — Hundreds of Muslims surrounded the church of St George today in the village of Beni Ahmed West, 7 KM south of Minya, vowing to kill its priest Father George Thabet, who was serving the morning mass and was locked in the church with a number of parishioners. Security forces arrived five hours later and escorted Father George in a police car to the Coptic Diocese in Minya. “Father George looked as if he was the criminal, leaving his church in a police car.” said one of the eye-witnesses. The Coptic youth who were attending mass remained inside church to defend it from Muslim attacks.

Eyewitnesses reported the Muslim mob, in their white dresses and long beards, chanted “We will kill the priest, we will kill him and no one will prevent us.” One of their leaders said that they will “…cut him to pieces.” Continue Reading →

Islamic modern educational methods

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It is amazing how one can travel so far in time and so short in ideas. The page from whence this came, claims this is in Egypt.

Youtube removed this video, although in fact it is hardly shocking and disgusting in most ways but certainly should be, yet allows genuine horror from Islamic groups or non-English brutality frequently. It appears they are attempting to crack down on videos which makes Islam look bad or something, not quite sure what is at play here. This video is up all over the place on the net. It is just an Egyptian teacher whacking every kid in his class except one with a ruler. It isn’t that harsh, its wrong but not health threatening or anything. Anyway here it is below.

Clashes between police and Coptic protesters in Minya

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From Al Masry Al Youm:

<p>Coptic protesters blocking Mehwar Road, 7 March, 2011. Copts protest over torching of a church in Atfeeh, Helwan governorate, and hindered traffic. However, armed forces interfered to restore traffic.</p>
Photographed by Mohamed Abdel Wahab

Reuters news agency quoted unconfirmed security sources as saying that three policemen and six Coptic protesters on Wednesday were injured in a clash between the two sides in the southern Egyptian city of Minya.

The agency said the police used batons to beat the protesters, who retaliated against police by throwing stones.

The clashes erupted when the police tried to disperse demonstrators, who blocked a road in protest against the disappearance of two Coptic teenage girls.

The source said the clash took place in front of the Security Directorate, where a thousand Coptic protesters gathered on Tuesday. Hundreds of protesters, who camped out overnight, claimed the girls were abducted by Muslims and forced to convert to Islam.

Report: Egypt Legalizes Muslim Brotherhood

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h/t Richard

Egypt’s long-banned Muslim Brotherhood has been legally recognized as the Freedom and Justice Party, Egypt’s official news agency reported on Tuesday.

The announcement would allow the group to run in parliamentary elections set for September.

The Brotherhood is considered one of Egypt’s best organized blocs following the fall of longtime President Hosni Mubarak in February. It was founded in 1928 but outlawed since 1954.

Read more: Report: Egypt Legalizes Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt: Protesters demand Sharia Law implementation, tourism that respects Islam

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From Al Masry Al Youm

<p>Egyptian flags flutter in Tahrir Square, where tens of thousands of citizens protest on second Friday of Rage, Cairo, May 27,2011, as they demand swift trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, his family, and members in toppled regime.</p>

Photographed by Ibrahim Zayed

Around 300 individuals gathered in Tahrir Square on Friday, chanting “Islamist, Islamist,” and calling for the implementation of Sharia Law in Egypt. Protesters also raised objections regarding tourists who “violate the people’s traditions,” and demanded closer scrutiny of those who receive permission to enter the country for tourism purposes.

The protesters, who held the banner of the “Development and Renaissance Party”, refused a civil state and attacked secularism, arguing that it does not suit the Egyptian people. They stressed that Egypt is a strictly Islamic country. A number of protesters had set up a stage at the same spot that Tahrir revolutionaries used to spread their message. A number of passers-by and street vendors gathered around the group.

The protesters called for tourism that respects cultural norms, saying Gulf tourists visit to violate Egyptian women. Foreign tourists who do not respect the Islamic traditions should also be more strictly regulated, they said.

Translated from the Arabic Edition

 

Former Egyptian Interior Minister Accused of Collusion in Alexandria Church Bombing

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(AINA) — The Egyptian attorney general has reopened the investigation into the bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve, which killed 24 Copts and injured more than 90. On May 25 Coptic Church attorney Joseph Malak presented a petition to the Attorney General to reopen the investigations into the church bombing. The petition accused former Minister of Interior, Habib el-Adly, of criminal responsibility and collusion.

The Attorney General assigned the case to the Supreme State Security Prosecution to question the former Minister of Interior, who is presently in prison on other charges, including ordering the shooting of more than 900 protesters in Tahrir Square on January 28.

“We expect el-Adly to appear for interrogation before prosecution within the next few days,” said Malak in an interview on Egyptian TV. He said that everyone was surprised when in mid April it was reported that all 20 Muslim suspects in the church attack were released and that they had been held as “political detainees.” Continue Reading →

Egypt’s Christians Fear Violence as Changes Embolden Islamists

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The New York Times has noticed. Interesting. The MSM is catching up to the blogosphere it seems. At least in terms of Egypt.Albeit to a limited degree.

Ed Ou for The New York Times
Coptic Christians, many of whom have felt less secure since Egypt’s dictator stepped down, held a sit-in May 19 in Cairo.

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Published: May 30, 2011

CAIRO — The headline screamed from a venerable liberal newspaper: Coptic Christians had abducted a young Muslim and tattooed her with a cross. “Copts kidnap Raghada!”

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Ed Ou for The New York Times

Many Coptic Christians are concerned about persecution or the loss of rights under a predominantly Muslim government.

“They tied me up with ropes, beat me with shoes, shaved my hair,” Raghada Salem Abdel Fattah, 19, declared, “and forced me to read Christian psalms!”

Like many similar stories proliferating here since the revolution, Ms. Abdel Fattah’s kidnapping could not be confirmed. But for members of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, the sensational headline — from a respected publisher, no less — served to validate their fear that the Egyptian revolution had made their country less tolerant and more dangerous for religious minorities. The Arab Spring initially appeared to open a welcoming door to the dwindling number of Christian Arabs who, after years of feeling marginalized, eagerly joined the call for democracy and rule of law. But now many Christians here say they fear that the fall of the police state has allowed long-simmering tensions to explode, potentially threatening the character of Egypt, and the region.

“Will Christians have equal rights and full citizenship or not?” asked Sarkis Naoum, a Christian commentator in Beirut, Lebanon. A surge of sectarian violence in Cairo — 24 dead, more than 200 wounded and three churches in flames since President Hosni Mubarak’s downfall — has turned Christian-Muslim tensions into one of the gravest threats to the revolution’s stability. But it is also a pivotal test of Egypt’s tolerance, pluralism and the rule of law. The revolution has empowered the majority but also opened new questions about the protection of minority rights like freedom of religion or expression as Islamist groups step forward to lay out their agendas and test their political might.

Around the region, Christians are also closely watching events in Syria, where as in Egypt Christians and other minorities received the protection of a secular dictator, Bashar al-Assad, now facing his own popular uprising.

“The Copts are the crucial test case,” said Heba Morayef, a researcher with Human Rights Watch here, adding that facing off against “societal pressures” may in some ways be ever harder than criticizing a dictator. “It is the next big battle.” Continue Reading →

What really happened to Lara Logan?

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Linked here is an article about the brutal sustained gang rape of CBS reporter Lara Logan. I tend to think that what this article claims is likely true. I agree that CBS is complicit in a kind of crime of silence or distortion of the facts. This article makes the claim that CBS shows a double standard when it comes to their own reporter and compares it to the shooting of the US democratic house member some months back and I agree. But CBS could have said something like…

‘Lara Logan is entitled to, and asked that some of the details and horror of this story not be told’

as opposed to telling a story that was untrue by omission.

In any case, this is worth a read.

 

 

The new Egypt tortures protesters, tests womens’ virginity

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More here at CNN 

Related, it appears that Tunisia, where all this “Arab Spring” started, is in great danger of an ‘Islamist’ (the fictionalized notion of a hijacked peaceful Islam) takeover.

Here is an excerpt from Common American Journal:

Tunisia: Birthplace of the Arab Spring fears Islamist insurgence

The uprisings that swept North Africa and the Middle East began in Tunisia. But, as Andrew Gilligan finds out, the country is still searching for its happy ending.

Andrew Gilligan
Telegraph [UK]
28 May 2011

At the Cannes Film Festival this month, Nouri Bouzid, the celebrated director and opponent of Islamist extremism, received the Legion d’Honneur, the highest award France can bestow.

A few weeks before that, in his native Tunisia, came a rather different form of recognition: he was stabbed in the head.

For the rest please click over to the link at the top.

Egyptian Islamo-Nazism and “Omar Amin” Von Leers

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From Andrew Bostom’s website:

May 30th, 2011 by Andrew Bostom |
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“Omar Amin” von Leers: The Nazi Who Found a Haven in Egypt and Embraced a More Potent Ideology to Destroy the Judeo-Christian West—Islamic Jihad

Cross-posted at The American Thinker

Wednesday May 25, 2011 a group of Egyptians, led by founding member Emad Abdel Sattar proclaimed the establishment  of “a contemporary frame of reference” Nazi Party.

Sattar reportedly stated that the party, whose founding deputy is a former military official, would bring together prominent figures from Egyptian society, and vest all powers in a “carefully selected” president.

The Egyptian Leftist publication Al-Masry Al-Youm, at its English website, further  contends the Nazi party operated clandestinely during the Mubarak regime which had prevented party leaders from carrying out their activities in the open. Two Facebook pages which appeared recently under the title of “the Egyptian Nazi Party,” may confirm the party’s public emergence since Mubarak was deposed.

Whether or not the inchoate new Egyptian Nazi Party, operating within a  “modern framework,” becomes a significant political force, Nazism and its ugly resonance with the country’s Muslim masses, has a prolonged, disturbing legacy in Egypt.

Aribert Ferdinand Heim, was a member of Hitler’s Waffen-SS, and a psychopathic “medical doctor” who committed the most heinous atrocities at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps, including: the performance of operations on prisoners without anesthesia; removing organs from healthy inmates, who were then left then to die on the operating table; injecting poison, including gasoline, into the hearts of others; and taking the skull of at least one victim as a “souvenir.”

As revealed in this February 4/5, 2009 New York Times story, Heim, like many Nazi war criminals, lived safely in Egypt, perhaps for up to three decades, following his flight from Europe in 1962. Continue Reading →

STRATFOR: Rafah border crossing with Gaza will be permanently opened

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May 25, 2011 STRATFOR.COM
Egypt’s official news agency says the Rafah border crossing with Gaza will be permanently opened for Palestinians May 28, AP reported May 25. MENA news agency said that Egypt’s new military leaders set the date for the opening of the crossing as part of efforts “to end the status of the Palestinian division and achieve national reconciliation.”

STRATFOR: Ikhwan wants “true sharia” for Egypt

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STRATFOR SITREP

May 22, 2011
In his latest audio message, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri expressed support for the recent wave of Arab revolts, SITE Intelligence Group reported May 22. Though the Egyptian constitution claims to be Shariah, Egypt’s legislation is man-made, and Egyptians should use the opportunity afforded by the revolution to impose true Shariah, Zawahiri said. He also called on Egypt to end its relationship with Israel and to cease closing the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, going so far as to urge Egyptians to “dismantle” the crossing. Regarding Libya, Zawahiri said NATO seeks to replace Moammar Gadhafi with its own “tyrannical” ruler, and he urged protesters in Syria to continue their demonstrations against the regime of President Bashar al Assad.

Egypt: Over 1000 Muslims attempt to block reopening of church

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Read this in the context of the following post. This is normal. The rest of the world fighting back is, sadly, man bites dog.

Eeyore

From Jihad Watch:

They don’t make the rules, they just go on rampages to enforce them: Islamic law forbids the construction of new churches or the repair of existing ones. And closed churches are expected to stay that way. As usual, the headline does its utmost to make the hatred and violence appear to be a reciprocal affair.

This latest mob intended to send the message: What we decide to break, you must not dare to fix. What we close, you will not re-open. “Muslim-Christian clashes erupt over reopening of church in Egyptian capital,” from the Associated Press, May 19 (thanks to Twostellas):

CAIRO — Muslims and Christians pelted each with stones in a Cairo suburb Thursday over the reopening of a church the former regime closed years ago.

For the rest please click over to Jihad Watch:

Coptics gather to protest against Cairo violence

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From The Australian:

MORE than 5000 Coptic Christians are expected to gather in Sydney’s CBD today in protest over the growing violence against the religious sect in Cairo.

Reports from Cairo say Coptic women and girls have been targeted in a recent spate of kidnappings, rapes and forced conversions to Islam, prompting today’s protest in Sydney.

The Australian Coptic community is calling on the Australian government to push for UN recognition of human rights abuses against their people in Egypt.

Father Bassilious Gad, of St Mary & St Mina’s Coptic Cathedral in Sydney’s southwest, said he also wanted to support his Coptic brothers and sisters currently protesting in Maspero, Cairo, who have been situated outside a national television station for more than two weeks.

Father Gad said he was expecting more than 5000 protesters to congregate today in Sydney.

  • Egypt protest turns violent, over 50 injured The Australian, 5 days ago
  • Military trials for Egypt violence Adelaide Now, 8 May 2011
  • Protest against Egypt Christian governor The Australian, 22 Apr 2011
  • Egypt warns of ‘counter-revolution’ Adelaide Now, 10 Mar 2011
  • 13 killed in Egypt sectarian violence The Australian, 9 Mar 2011

    • Originally the Coptic congregation in Melbourne was to gather outside the Melbourne Museum, which is holding the Tutankhamun exhibition, but this was cancelled due to concerns from the museum’s curators.