Earlier this month, a 15-year-old Coptic Christian girl disappeared off the streets of Cairo, Egypt; her mobile phone was turned off at the same time. Randa Fathallah Faleh was returning home alone, after helping another female member of her family move. Her family instantly reported her disappearance to police and even urged the Minister of the Interior to investigate.
A few days later, around August 10, online Arabic websites reported that the underage girl had happily been returned family—which turned out to be false. In fact, Randa’s father and uncle were at and pestering the police station the same day this false rumor began. A family friend responded by posting on social media the following message: “People, Randa has not been returned. Please stop promoting false rumors. Randa must be returned! Please copy and paste.”
Randa likely now joins countless Coptic Christian girls that have over the years been abducted, sexually abused, and forced to convert to Islam and marry their kidnappers. If she were to be “found” and returned to her family, no legal action will, per precedent, ever be taken against the abductors, even though Egyptian law is extremely harsh in such matters (up to 25 years imprisonment for abducting a minor female). But such is the reality of Egypt’s justice system when it comes to Copts.
This phenomenon is well discussed in a September 10, 2020 report by Coptic Solidary (CS). Fifteen-pages long and titled “‘Jihad of the Womb’: Trafficking of Coptic Women & Girls in Egypt,” it documents “the widespread practice of abduction and trafficking” and estimates that there have been “about 500 cases within the last decade, where elements of coercion were used that amount to trafficking,” according to the UN’s own definitions, particularly per its “Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children.”
According to the CS report:
The capture and disappearance of Coptic women and minor girls is a bane of the Coptic community in Egypt, yet little has been done to address this scourge by the Egyptian or foreign governments, NGOs, or international bodies. According to a priest in the Minya Governorate, at least 15 girls go missing every year in his area alone. His own daughter was nearly kidnapped had he not been able to intervene in time.
The report offers 13 separate case studies. Victims range from teenage girls, to newly-wed and pregnant young women, to married women with children. Most of the 500 disappeared in one of two ways: either they were publicly kidnapped, often by being forced into a car while traveling to school, church, or work; or—and this is especially true for teenage girls—they were lured into relationships with young Muslim men who promised them the world, until, that is, it was too late.
Why so many officials help in the abduction and forced conversion of Christian girls and women—or at the very least look the other way—“can be traced back to the second article of the Egyptian Constitution.” Its states that “Islam is the religion of the State and Arabic is its official language. The principles of Islamic Sharia are the main source of legislation.”
Although the entire CS report is worth reading to understand the totality of this phenomenon—which is plagues several other Muslim nations, most notoriously Pakistan—perhaps its most salient paragraph follows:
The rampant trafficking of Coptic women and girls is a direct violation of their most basic rights to safety, freedom of movement, and freedom of conscience and belief. The crimes committed against these women must be urgently addressed by the Egyptian government, ending impunity for kidnappers, their accomplices, and police who refuse to perform their duties. Women who disappear and are never recovered must live an unimaginable nightmare. The large majority of these women are never reunited with their families or friends because police response in Egypt is dismissive and corrupt. There are countless families who report that police have either been complicit in the kidnapping or at the very least bribed into silence. If there is any hope for Coptic women in Egypt to have a merely ‘primitive’ level of equality, these incidents of trafficking must cease, and the perpetrators must be held accountable by the judiciary.
Please pray this child will not be trafficked. Very sad.
It would seem that it is just as dangerous for Coptic Christian females to be seen on the streets in Egypt as it was for Jews during Nazi Germany.
Evil in one form or the other is on the rise in just about every country. It should not be surprising, as nations have not obeyed 2 Chronicles 7:14. We are now living with the resulting chaos, murder and mayhem.
The betrayal by the no-longer-mighty America of Afghanistan and the subsequent take-over of the Taliban and their cohorts, will now give all the other Islamic terrorist groups brutalising Christians up and down Africa and other places, more bravado to increase their reign of terror.
We can only pray that the Lord will not tarry.
I think the comparison to the NAZIs is something I may begin using to get people thinking Ms T. Crossed my mind in the last few days. Good you mentioned it.
We wouldn’t allow a NAZI table with leaflets in many colleges as we do with our friends teaching wide eyed students about the ‘religion of peace’.
Hopefully plant a seed of Truth with the thought.
Stay well
Thank you so much for denouncing the persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt and for enlightening us about the horrors of the Islamic conquests through history as well.
I’ve shared this and many of your other posts in alternative social webs.
nice going jo, spread the word.
There is a good synopsis- 23 points itemised of “The project” a Swiss discovery in 2001 of the plan for Muslim takeover to establish a global caliphate by radical Islam. This is on page 75 of Brigitte Gabriel’s book, “They must be stopped”.
In EVERY country Islam is pro-active, will NOT assimilate, and as in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Malaysia, Iraq, Turkey reach saturation point. From the Circassians in Russia to Afghanistan, virtually none of the original inhabitants exist with their religion taking over by a political ideology, and Egypt as part of North Africa is a prime example of this happening.
The ONLY TWO solutions are to export troublemakers permanently from pro-democratic countries and for ALL democracies to act to increase their birthrate to AT LEAST EQUAL to the muslim birthrate.
spot on H, the Pols and Hungarians, or Hungarians for sure, have instituted family friendly policies successfully.
agree with all else you mentioned.
Thanks to our foolish bail-out in Afghanistan, Islamists got the message: It is okay to steal females wherever they find them, at a time of Allah’s choosing.
and “steal”, ECN, is the initial step of all that is about to happen to the women and girls… it is an ongoing world wide tragedy the corrupt Western press does not report on.
It’s all rubbish.. why are you publish such a rubbish.
It’s not true by all the meaning of word “NOT TRUE”.
Why you did not mention any about the Muslim girls as well, why you did not mention the kidnaped girls and women at Europe, USA or Far East?
Else more, why did not you mentioned about kidnaped children all over the world for human trafficking and as we all know its plenty.
In this case, did the kidnaper ask him self what if this child Cristian, Jewish or Muslim.
Mr. Raymond. it seems to me and obvious that you are not in Egypt right now.
These days in Egypt more unlike any time the Christians “Catholic Or Orthodox” Muslim “Sunni or Shia”, have all wright EQUAL just under the Egyptian Nationality.
We all children of God, and as we all say in Egypt:
Religion for God and Nation for all.
I recommend to visit Egypt soon to figure what you miss.
REGARDS FROM EGYPT
Dina Kazem? Will you return to this website to find out the response to your rant? Your writings are consistent with all brain-washed bigots who simply churn out the propaganda of their mosques and leaders. Anyone reading your response will notice that you do not state a single supported instance to back up your claims. Everyone who studies Islam to a reasonable degree knows that your quote: ‘Religion for God and Nation for all’ – only applies to Muslims in all the countries (with very few exceptions) that they control. Have you never heard of these lying doctrines introduced by Muhammad: taqiyya (or taqiyyah, literally ‘prudence, fear’) is a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice in the face of persecution. A related term is kitman (literally ‘action of covering, dissimulation’) which has a more specific meaning of dissimulation by silence or omission. And then there is the doctrine of tawriya which allows Muslims to lie in virtually all circumstances provided that the lie is articulated in a way that is technically true! You will find many examples of Islamic methods of lying while dissembling (masking, feigning, pretending) in an article that will soon appear on our website (thechristianexpositor.org) – Almighty God of the Bible willing!