Gatestone Institute On July 4th, the day after the Egyptian military liberated the nation of Muslim Brotherhood rule, Christian Copts were immediately scapegoated and targeted. All Islamist leaders—from Brotherhood supreme leader Muhammad Badi, to Egyptian-born al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri, to top Sunni cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi—made it a point to single out Egypt’s … [Read more...]
Vote for Me or Else: Patterns between Egypt and Pakistan
Gatestone Institute In what seems to be a pattern in many Muslim nations of finding new pretexts to justify anti-Christian—and “anti-Other”—behavior, Egypt's Christians and their churches are under attack, ostensibly because Christians joined the June 30 Revolution, which led to the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood. Lesser known is that, even before the revolution back … [Read more...]
Brotherhood, Al Jazeera Threaten Christians to Repudiate Jizya Reports
Following news that the Muslim Brotherhood has revived the practice of collecting tribute from conquered “infidels”—that is, collecting jizya from Egypt’s Coptic Christians in the village of Dalga, first reported on this site—according to a new report published today by the popular Egyptian newspaper Youm7: The Muslim Brotherhood is passing by the homes of the Copts in the … [Read more...]
Christian-Abduction Gangs Form in Egypt
A September 10, 2013 Watan report confirms what I recently wrote—that Egypt's Christian Copts are increasingly being kidnapped and held hostage for ransom, some being killed even after payment is made. In al-Minya province in Upper Egypt, authorities have just identified a “gang made up of five persons that specializes in overseeing operations to kidnap wealthy Copts in … [Read more...]
Muslim Persecution of Christians: June, 2013
Gatestone Institute Spanish The degradation of Christian women living in the Islamic world continued in the month of June. In Syria, after the al-Qaeda linked rebel group conquered Qusair, a city of the governate of Homs, 15-year-old Mariam was kidnapped, repeatedly gang raped according to a fatwa legitimizing the rape of non-Sunni women by any Muslim waging jihad against … [Read more...]