Jihad Watch The U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, is being accused of some outlandish behavior and remarks. Last week, several Egyptian papers and websites, including Al Dostor, reported that Dia’ al-Din al-Garahi, a human rights lawyer and president of the Justice Center for Freedoms and Media, submitted a complaint to the Attorney General accusing Patterson “of libel … [Read more...]
The Importance of ‘Witnesses’: Newly Translated Georgian Christian Martyrdoms Expose Islamic Jihad Continuity
By Ralph Sidway In the Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions, the lives of saints and the examples of martyrs and confessors are a rich source of theology. These are ones who “completed this life in faith,” and so their “witness” (the literal translation of the Greek word, “martyr”) bears considerable weight in the Church’s memory. In the mind of the Orthodox Church, martyrs … [Read more...]
Video: Christian Girls Gang Raped to Screams of “Allahu Akbar” in Egypt
Earlier this week a video began circulating on Arabic-language websites purportedly showing a crowd of Muslims in Egypt assaulting and raping two Christian women—on a crowded street and in broad daylight. The video opens with Muslim men repeatedly shouting the word “Nasara”—the Koran’s derogatory appellation for “Christians”—as they identify two Coptic women who proceed to … [Read more...]
In Pictures: Savage Islamic Attack on St. Mark Cathedral Allowed by Egyptian Forces
Egypt's Coptic Christians frequently accuse State Security and police of overlooking Muslim attacks on Christians and their places of worship, especially monasteries and churches. The Western mainstream media often ignores these accusations, or mentions them in passing as "unsubstantiated reports." Last weekend's assault on the St. Mark Cathedral -- unprecedented in … [Read more...]
‘Either Europe Will Become Christian Again or It Will Become Muslim’
By Enza Ferreri Only a few days ago one of the best known figures of the Italian counter-jihad, Egyptian-born journalist Magdi Cristiano Allam, a former Muslim who converted to Catholicism, announced that, although he remains Christian, he has left the Catholic Church. In his column in the daily paper Il Giornale he gave several reasons, prominent among which is "Because … [Read more...]