A 70-year-old Christian woman was stripped naked, savagely beat, and paraded in the streets of Egypt to jeers, whistles, and yells of “Allahu Akbar,” after a mob of some 300 armed Muslim men descended on her home.[1] Her crime? Her son is falsely accused of having a romantic relationship with a Muslim woman, which is banned by Islamic law, or Sharia—the same body of … [Read more...]
Egyptian Dhimmitude: Christian Official Lures Child Back to Muslim Grandfather and Orders Her to “Remove the Cross”
FrontPage Magazine Nabila Makram—the only Coptic Christian currently serving as a minister in the Egyptian government—may have unwittingly exposed how she reached that position during a televised interview. In the interview, she told the story of a young Egyptian girl named Kariman. Apparently her Muslim mother divorced her father and fled to Italy with an … [Read more...]
Leading Muslim Cleric Says Persecuted Coptic Christians Are “Criminal, Aggressive, and Oppressive”
Coptic Solidarity Dr. Yassir al-Burhami, Egypt’s premiere Salafi, was once again videotaped inciting hate for and violence against the nation’s Christians, the Copts—including by decrying the notion of giving them their full human and civil rights: “When you cooperate with a criminal, aggressive, oppressive, infidel minority, you attack the rights of the majority … [Read more...]
Blasphemy Convictions Intensify in Sisi’s Egypt
Gatestone Institute Despite Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's many pluralistic words and gestures, which have won him much praise from the nation's Christians and moderates, he appeases the Islamist agenda in one very clear way: by allowing the controversial defamation of religions law, colloquially known as the "blasphemy law," to target Christians and moderates in … [Read more...]
Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt: Politics, Society and Interfaith Encounters
Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt: Politics, Society and Interfaith Encounters, by Henrik Lindberg Hansen I.B. Tauris: London, 2015. 304 pp. $99. Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly Spring 2016 Hansen has made a substantive contribution to our understanding of Egyptian society by focusing on relations between Christians and Muslims. His discussions on a … [Read more...]