by Ralph Sidway, guest contributor (This is an update to my posting here, and Raymond Ibrahim’s recent article.) The re-Islamicization of Turkey continues grinding along, inexorably eclipsing the few remaining signs of Asia Minor’s two millennia of Christian history. The relentless Muslim initiative, to roll back Turkey’s secular stance implemented by Kemal Ataturk nearly a … [Read more...]
Muslim Brotherhood Out, Killing Christians In
Gatestone Institute “In scattered locations across Egypt,” wrote Morning Star News, “mobs of hard-line Muslims enraged over the deposing of the country’s Islamist president [Muhammad Morsi] this week attacked Christian homes, business[es] and church buildings and were suspected in the shooting death of a priest.” None of this should come as a surprise. As I reported … [Read more...]
Revenge: Coptic Church Set Aflame for Morsi
True to their vows, pro-Morsi Muslims are attacking Egypt's Christians for participating in the anti-Morsi protests. The St. George Coptic Christian Church in a village in al-Minya, Egypt, has just been set on fire by "pro-Morsi" forces. Copts are reported to be in a state of "fear and panic." Days earlier, a letter was circulated in al-Minya, which has a very large Coptic … [Read more...]
Copts under the Gun: Religious Freedom in Egypt
National Review Online [Note: the following is an interview that NRO editor Kathryn Lopez conducted with Raymond Ibrahim, first published July 2, 2013 ] As Mohamed Morsi faces the prospect of an imminent military coup, Raymond Ibrahim, the American son of two Egyptian parents and author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians, talks about the situation in … [Read more...]
Egypt: Christians Being Threatened Not to Join Protests
Gatestone Institute Hours before the June 30 protests against Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi and his party, the Muslim Brotherhood, began, the nation’s Christians were, once again, singled out for behaving like citizens who have the right to participate in the protests. In Minya, Upper Egypt, where millions of Christians live, letters addressed to the Copts threatened … [Read more...]