What’s ours is ours; and what’s yours is ours, as well. This is one of the primary messages coming from Muslims following the recent decision to transform the Hagia Sophia museum—which was originally built, and for a millennium functioned, as a Christian cathedral—into a trophy mosque again. For starters, consider the recent and deliberate display of the symbols of conquest … [Read more...]
A Sword Over the Nile: New Book Exposes 14 Centuries of Christian Persecution
February 2015 was the first time many in the West heard of the Copts, Egypt’s indigenous, Christian inhabitants. Then, the Islamic State published what subsequently went viral—a gory video of their jihadi members savagely carving off the heads of 20 Copts and one Ghanaian by the shores of Libya because they refused to renounce Christ for Islam. Little known, however, is … [Read more...]
A Dubious Conversion to Islam: Missing Coptic Woman Reappears and Remains “Servant of Christ”
Coptic Solidarity A Coptic Christian wife and mother who disappeared for nearly three months—supposedly because she had willingly converted to Islam and no longer wanted any connection to her “infidel” husband and three young daughters—has finally been returned to her family. Ranya ‘Abd al-Masih, 39, a high school teacher of English in al-Minofiya, just north of Cairo, … [Read more...]
A Response to “Dead Wrong: The Anti-Muslim Myth”
An especially stark example of how Leftists thrive on distorting history—a tactic pivotal to their very being—recently appeared. In a video titled “Dead Wrong: The Anti-Muslim Myth,” Johan Norberg, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who holds an MA in “the History of Ideas” from the University of Stockholm, begins as follows: The Nativist right likes to tell the story of … [Read more...]
“Burned Alive”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2020
Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of June 2020: The Slaughter of Christians Nigeria: The jihad on Christians continued unabated in the West Africa nation. In what police described as a “brutal assault,” suspected Muslims raped and slaughtered Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old Christian girl who was … [Read more...]