by Ivana Kvesic
Christian Post
Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate competing against Ahmed Shafiq in a runoff election to become Egypt’s first elected president in 60 years, has allegedly said that the Coptic Christian population should “convert, pay tribute, or leave” the predominantly Muslim country.
The Egyptian news website El Bashayer quoted the presidential candidate as allegedly telling a journalist in the context of a private meeting that he will “achieve the Islamic conquest of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians convert to Islam, or else pay the ‘jizya’ (Islamic tax),” according to an article by Raymond Ibrahim of the Gatestone Institute, a nonprofit policy organization.
The conversation reportedly took place at the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party.
“We will not allow Ahmed Shafiq or anyone else to impede our second Islamic conquest of Egypt,” Morsi allegedly told the journalist. “They (Christians) need to know that conquest is coming, and Egypt will be Islamic, and that they must pay ‘jizya’ or emigrate.”
It remains unclear if Morsi actually made the comments, but recent reports illustrate the presidential candidate as attempting to silence critics concerned that human rights and religious freedom in Egypt would be put in jeopardy should he be elected to the presidency….
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