Articles from Sep 3, 2013

Egypt: Church Vandal Caught in the Act

During the recent spate of attacks on Christian churches in Egypt, nearly 100 churches, monasteries, and other Christian institutions were destroyed — all in the name of the Muslim Brotherhood. Other churches, however, were "lucky" in that they were "only" vandalized with graffiti.

To the right is one of the rarer instances when a pro-Brotherhood vandal got caught in the act. After placing a picture of ousted Brotherhood president Morsi on the side of St. Fatima, a Chaldean Catholic church in Heliopolis, Egypt, the man was stopped mid-sentence writing "Islamic" on the church door.

Based on other graffiti that was spread on other churches around the same time, he may have been planning to write something like “Islamic, oh you slaves of the cross” (as was spray painted on another church in Heliopolis) or “Islamic, despite Tawadros the Dog” (reference to the Coptic pope, as was painted on the walls of an Asyut church).

At any rate, note how the vandal himself appears "righteously" outraged, even as those preventing him appear passive and apologetic — as if to suggest he is right, after all, to desecrate the church, since those "dhimmi" Christians dared overstep their rights by protesting against Morsi on the June 30 Revolution, but that he should be the "better man" and let it go.

Raymond Ibrahim

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'Over Our Bodies': Syrians Prefer Death to U.S. Sponsored Al-Qaeda Rule

While U.S. president Barrack Hussein Obama prepares to wage war on behalf of the al-Qaeda led "rebels" fighting the secular Syrian government, increasing numbers of regular indigenous Syrians — including women and children — are preparing to lay down their lives to create a human shield with their own bodies to defend their nation against U.S.-sponsored terrorism and jihad. They know that, whatever Assad's shortcomings are, he is preferable to Islamist rule — a lesson nearby Egyptians learned the hard way. Watch the video:

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Egyptian Media Portray Obama as Satan

Popular and widely read Egyptian newspaper Al Wafd published the above picture today portraying U.S. President Barrack Hussein Obama as Satan himself. The unflattering picture has been making the rounds on Facebook in the Middle East and, according to Al Wafd, is representative of the hatred growing numbers of people in the region have for the American president, thanks to his staunch and unwavering support for Islamists and jihadiis — whether in Nigeria, Libya, Egypt, or Syria — even as they terrorize, murder, rape, and burn down Christian churches, that is, even as they engage in diabolical activities.

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Ousting of Tunisian Islamist Government on Horizon?

'"For Tunisia's Sake – Rebel!"

If Egypt's "Arab Spring" followed Tunisia's, Tunisia's ousting of ruling Islamists may be following Egypt's. According to Muhammad bi'l Nour, the founder of Tunisia's "Tamarod," or rebellion movement — named after the organization that led the June 30 Revolution against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt — already 1.7 million Tunisians, nearly 20% of the nation, have in just a few weeks signed onto the organization calling for the ouster of the Islamist-led government of Tunisia.

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Growing Numbers of Egyptians Reject U.S. Aid

As the U.S. continues threatening to cut aid off from Egypt in response to the popular June 30 revolution that saw the Obama administration's Muslim Brotherhood allies ousted, growing numbers of Egyptians are calling on Egypt to refuse to accept any aid from the U.S. Yesterday evening an organization calling itself "No Aid" (from the U.S.) stood in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo holding signs saying that, to date, they already have over 400,000 Egyptian signatures calling for a halt of U.S. aid. Other, more familiar signs they held — such as "U.S. stop supporting terrorism" — indicated why No Aid is calling for a halt to U.S. aid: the price for such aid, as U.S. leaders like John McCain have made abundantly clear, is that the Muslim Brotherhood and its jihadi allies and affiliates — the terrorists — return to power and politics in Egypt.

Raymond Ibrahim

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Defiant Morsi Screams in Trial: 'I Am Legitimate President!'

According to sources present at the initial trials of Muhammad Morsi, the former Egyptian president is behaving "very tensely," and refusing to answer any question concerning the charges against him, which include treason against Egypt, and inciting terrorism against Egyptian citizens.

A judicial source told Al Watan that "During one interrogation session, Morsi began screaming with extreme agitation, repeating one phrase — 'I am the legitimate president!' — three times, followed by saying, 'I'm not going to respond to anything, I am your president!'"

To Morsi's accomplices — which, according to mainstream Egyptian opinion include the Obama administration — his refusal to talk must be a relief, even as one wonders how long he can persist this way.

Raymond Ibrahim

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