On his Twitter account, Coptic Bishop Raphaeil, who also serves as Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Christian Church, just wrote: Oh how lucky you are, Mary, you who are beloved of Christ. They tore your body because of the Cross. Yet they offered you the greatest service and gave you a name of honor as one who attained the crown of martyrdom. The … [Read more...]
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Attack Church, Four Dead
Update: The complete details of this story appear here Among other forms of "retaliatory terrorism," some 80 Christian churches were attacked in Egypt immediately after the June 30 Revolution, which saw the ousting of Muslim Brotherhood president Morsi. And now that Egypt has sentenced to death hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters for the widespread terror they … [Read more...]
Video: Raymond Ibrahim, Robert Spencer, and Caroline Glick on the Mideast Test
This video is a special edition of The Glazov Gang, filmed live at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s West Coast Retreat at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California, last Saturday. The wide-ranging discussion touched on the Muslim persecution of Christians, the Obama Administration’s willful ignorance regarding the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and the … [Read more...]
Turkey’s Latest Jihad on Christian Armenians
Far from being repentant of the Armenian Genocide, Turkey, under the leadership of Prime Minister Erdogan, is again, like its Ottoman forbear, targeting Armenians; is again causing their death and dislocation. In the early morning hours of March 21, al-Qaeda linked Islamic jihadis crossed into Syrian territory from the Turkish border and launched a jihad on the … [Read more...]
Western Ignorance of the ‘Conditions of Omar’
A jihadi group occupying the Syrian town of Raqqa recently gave Christian minorities living there three choices: 1) convert to Islam, 2) remain Christian but pay tribute and accept third-class subject status, or 3) die by the sword. According to the BBC, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria issued a directive citing the Islamic concept of “dhimma”, [which] requires … [Read more...]