We have seen what the Arab peoples didMany of themTo get rid of dictatorship, widespread in their regimesIn Tunisia, Bouazizi burnt himselfIn Egypt Khaled Said was taken as a symbolof police brutality to its citizensIn Libya demonstrations started peaceful and Gaddafi forces started shootingAnd of course all those presidents said externalforces:Foreign elementsEnemy channels
In the aftermath of the Egyptian revolution Coptic Christian Michel Nabil was arrested for writing a blog titled “The People and the Army Were Never One Hand”, and convicted of insulting the military and disturbing public security.
The article in no way disturbs the peace or incites any anarchy or protest.
Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has never explained or detailed on what basis the article disturbs the peace. The article was a personal expression of opinion about the future of Egypt, the very things that motivated the revolution, namely “freedom and democracy”.
Most alarming is the notion of “insulting the military”, reality been Nabil merely expressed an opinion that SCAF did not like. Crucially, these despots in SCAF are acting in the exact same manner that has caused outrage throughout the “Islamic middle east”. The mass protests and “revolutions” are still occurring, resulting in 10,000’s of deaths including during Ramadan (not very holy!!).
Walls can be used to keep people in and keep people out, as was true of he Berlin Wall erected in 1961 and today of the walls being erected throughout Europe.
These contemporary walls operate under the name of "no go" zones, areas that are off limits to non-Muslims. These zones function as micro-states governed by Sharia Law. In many locations from Malmo to Hamburg, and from Liverpool to Rotterdam, host country authorities have lost effective control over these zones, and often are unable to provide even basic public aid -- such as police and fire assistance and ambulance services -- without permission from the local imam.
On September 11, 2011, a solemn memorial service will take place at Ground Zero on the tenth anniversary of that fateful day when 3,000 innocent Americans were killed by an attack on the United States by radical Islamists. It will remind us that although Osama bin Laden was killed by American Navy Seals, the war against radical Islam continues. Indeed, it has simply entered a new phase, the nature of which will be determined by the outcome of the Arab Spring.
As in memorial services in previous years, the names of the dead will be read by their relatives, who still suffer their losses. And it is important that we should be reminded of that day, which destroyed our delusion that the fall of the Berlin Wall would usher in a new era of world peace and happiness. Instead, we now face, for the indefinite future, a global war declared by radical Islam.
A rising leader in the radical Islamic movement in Egypt that has become a major political player since the demise of Hosni Mubarak's regime says Christian churches may need to be blown up and Christians exterminated to allow the advance of Islamic law, or Shariah.
The comments come from Sheik 'Adel Shehato, a senior leader with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist group. The sheik was jailed in 1991 because of his positions but was released earlier this year in the revolution that removed Mubarak from power.
Egypt: Blow up the Churches, Pay Jiza or kill them & close the pyramids, sphinx...
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Jihadist Adel Shehato
Sheik 'Adel Shehato a senior leader with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, was jailed in 1991 for involvement in terrorist activities. Thanks to the genius of the Einstein’s running the Egyptian military he was released earlier this year without explanation.
Sheik Adel conducted a harrowing interview with the Egyptian daily Roz Al-Yousef on 13 August 2011.
This mentally challenged halfwit quickly rose as a leader in the radical Islamic movement since his release by the military.
During the course of the interview, this warped Islamic radical has yet again confirmed “Islam is an evil backward ideology, a religion of hatred, oppression, intolerance, violence and full of devout animals like himself.”
The independence of South Sudan on 24 July 2011 was a momentous event. After decades of fighting domination by the Arabic speaking and increasingly radically Islamic north, the largely Christian, animist and Black African south achieved liberation. While it would be naïve to assume all is well in the new state, especially since the former rebel movement has not given up human rights abuses as it attempts to become a responsible government, there are some hopeful signs as the state rebuilds a much damaged infrastructure and traumatised population.
CAIRO — Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak, due to go on trial next week for murder, is refusing food in his hospital detention and has become extremely weak, state media reported on Wednesday.
Mubarak, 83, has been detained since April on charges of ordering the killings of anti-regime protesters and corruption. He is under arrest in a Red Sea resort hospital, where he receives treatment for a heart condition.
Earlier this month I participated in Coptic Solidarity’s Second Annual Conference in Washington D.C., titled: “Will Religious and Ethnic Minorities Pay the Price of the ‘Arab Spring’?” Panelists included Middle East specialists, prominent members of the Coptic community, and other minority leaders from the Muslim world, including Kurds, Berbers, and Sudanese animists.
Held at the U.S. Capitol, nine members of Congress made statements and showed their support, including Sue Myrick, Chris Smith, and Frank Wolf. Walid Phares, a Congressional advisor who also participated, asserted that their appearance is encouraging and indicates that at least some members of Congress “are aware about the plight of minorities in general and of Christian communities in the Arab and Muslim world, and are particularly concerned about the Islamist and jihadi threat to these communities.”
Barnabas Fund's International Director Dr Patrick Sookhdeo was on the winning side in a prestigious debate, organised by The Spectator, arguing that Islam is a greater threat to Christianity than is secularism.
Chair Rod Liddle
Proposing Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP Damian Thompson Prof Tariq Ramadan
Opposing The Very Rev’d Patrick Sookhdeo Nick Cohen Douglas Murray
By MARK DONIG JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT Prominent Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali warns “the threat of radical Islam to all of us, particularly Israel and America, is not just a military threat."
WASHINGTON – Prominent Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali has warned that the current Arab uprisings may pose new threats for Islamic extremism to extend its influence not only through overt violence, but also through nonviolent political means.
Baroness Cox: 'If we ignore wrongs, we condone them'
When Baroness Cox takes up a cause, she invariably courts controversy. Her latest – a campaign against sharia law – is no exception. Jerome Taylor meets her
Baroness Cox outside the Houses of Parliament
If there is one thing Baroness Caroline Cox is not afraid of it is whipping up controversy. For almost three decades the Christian peer has sat in the House of Lords campaigning on one obscure issue to another, desperately trying to alert Britain's political elite to some of the world's forgotten conflicts. Nagorno-Karabakh, southern Sudan, Burma, Nigeria: If there is an ignored conflict – particularly one in which Christians are facing persecution – you can bet the 73-year-old will have been there.
January 25, 2011: IN defiance of State Security arsenals and an interior ministry swollen from one hundred thousand men in 1981 to over a million at the beginning of 2011, despite extensive wiretapping and eavesdropping on all forms of electronic and tele- communications and tight state control over much of the media, the January 25 revolution was a well-organised movement from the start. Armed with a steely determination, it succeeded in mustering a mass following that was remarkably united across class, age and sectarian lines.
Attacks on Christians: Can Egypt Deal with Extremist Mobs?
By Abigail Hauslohner / Cairo
In this May 8, 2011, file photo, Egyptians gather near a building belonging to Christians that was set on fire during clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo
Khalil Hamra / AP
On the night of March 8, Yasser Makram was on his way home from work, his pickup truck full of garbage, as he turned up the winding dirt road on the edge of Egypt's capital to approach his home in the crowded Cairo slum known popularly as Garbage City. As he inched around a curve, he saw in his rearview mirror a swarm of people running toward the truck. "I didn't know what was happening," he says. Before he could consider the possibilities, the mob pulled him from the truck. "They demanded to know if I was Christian."
WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report Egypt: Salafis’ Agenda behind Christian Persecution
A recent spate of violence in Egypt, mostly incited by conservative Salafi Muslims after President Hosni Mubarak’s downfall, has left over 24 killed, more than 200 wounded and three churches destroyed. The perception of threat to the Christians is so severe that many of them are reportedly seeking to move out of the country.
Although a few know who the Salafis really are, they have become the talk of the nation
Who exactly are the Salafis? What kinds of them are there? What is their relationship to the government and what is their political future? Some have announced that they plan to establish political parties. How will recent events affect their popularity?
It appears that Salafis come in various shades. They do not rally behind a single leader, such as the Muslim Brotherhood or Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya. Rather, they have a collection of sheikhs, each of which has its own following, and they have their own associations.
(Reuters) - Fed up with having no driver to ferry her to hospital, Shaima Osama decided to take matters into her own hands and drive there herself, an act of defiance in a country where women are banned from sitting behind the wheel.
Egypt's Arab Spring has become a nightmare for the nation's 2,000-year-old Coptic Christian community, now the terror target of choice for Islamist radicals. Christians' "personal security has gotten much worse" since the February ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, says Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute, who monitors the situation of religious minorities in the Muslim world.
While the Muslim Brotherhood gets all the ink, the Salafists go on a rampage.
Judging the likely trajectory of post-Mubarak Egypt requires assessing the depth of public support for Islamism, and usually this has meant assessing the strength and intentions of the Muslim Brotherhood. While the Brotherhood remains central, however, the country is also facing a frequently violent upsurge of Salafist versions of Islam.
Protesters in Qena gather to oppose the seating of a Christian governor, April 22
The groups can overlap, but the Brotherhood tends to stress an Islamic state and political organization, and its members have no prescribed mode of dress, apart from modesty: In this sense they are a modern movement. The Salafists are often distinguishable by full beards for men and full face covering for women, and they stress emulating the piety and practice of the first three generations of Muslims (Salaf means “predecessor” or “forefather”).
The Arab Spring has not been kind to Egypt’s Christian minority. Over the weekend, Muslims apparently incited by Islamist hardliners again terrorized Coptic Christians, in what is now a pattern of attacks against them and their churches. Possibly the Islamists are jockeying for political power in this transitional period, or even trying to immediately effect a religious cleansing similar to the one that has happened in Iraq.
Copts, numbering about 10 million, constitute the largest Christian group and the largest religious minority in the Middle East. Their size will likely prevent an escalating persecution of them from going unnoticed for long in the West.
Some Wary of Black-Listing Egypt for Rights Violations
Human rights activists, clergy believe designation would be counter-productive.
By Wayne King
CAIRO, Egypt, May 5 (Compass Direct News) – Placing Egypt on a U.S. State Department list that penalizes countries for their lack of religious freedom would be a mistake, according to some Egyptian human rights activists and Christian leaders.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued its annual report on April 28, recommending that Egypt be placed on the list of “Countries of Particular Concern,” or CPCs. While many in Egypt agree with the report’s assertion that religious persecution and sectarian violence are serious issues in Egypt, some said the designation would be counterproductive and would give the burgeoning government a black eye before it has a chance to address the issues.
2011 has seen unprecedented uprisings in the Islamic Arab world. The upheaval commenced in Tunisia then moved to Egypt. All the time we admired the brave youth in their quest for democracy. The educated modern youth sought to replicate western style democracy free from the shackles of religious interference. Whilst Egypt raged in the early days of the revolution the uprisings quickly spread to Libya, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, Jordan, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Algeria.
Osama death proves Pakistan sanctuary for terrorists: Govt
India on Monday said that the killing of global terrorist Osama bin Laden "deep inside Pakistan" was a matter of grave concern as it underlines New Delhi's apprehension that terrorists belonging to different organisations find sanctuary in that country. "We take note with grave concern that part of the statement in which President Obama said that the fire fight in which Osama Bin Laden was killed took place in Abbotabad 'deep inside Pakistan'.
On March 5, Muslims attacked, plundered, and set ablaze an ancient Coptic church in Sool, a village near Cairo, Egypt. Afterwards, throngs of Muslims gathered around the scorched building and pounded its walls down with sledge hammers—to cries of "Allahu Akbar!" Adding insult to injury, the attackers played "soccer" with the relic-remains of the church's saints and martyrs and transformed the desecrated church into a mosque (a live example of history, which witnessed countless churches seized and transformed into mosques). As a result of Christian girls being abducted and raped and overall terrorization of the Coptic community, thousands fled the village. (See this letter to Egypt's military leadership signed by twenty congressmen discussing this and similar anecdotes.)
(AINA) -- Between the April 14 appointment of the Christian Major General Emad Mikhail as governor of the southern province of Qena and the Prime Minister's decision on April 25 to suspend his appointment for a three months period, "Egypt lived through the biggest and most dangerous political and sectarian crisis in its modern history. Although no blood was shed and no clashes between Muslims and Christians took place, the 'civil state' was put to a difficult test -- which it failed miserably," wrote journalist Mohamed Hamdy in an article for the daily newspaper Youm7.
Sectarian clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians highlight the recurring question about what role Copts will play in the new Egyptian political system. Can the new generation that waves signs with both cross and crescent in Tahrir Square help reduce the violence?
Will the Muslim Brotherhood seize power in Egypt? This often repeated question, or rather fear, assumes that the Islamist organization does not already wield power yet may be able to hijack the largely secular revolution owing to its superior organization, tight discipline, and ideological single mindedness.[1]
In fact, this situation already exists. For while the Muslim Brotherhood does not formally or organizationally rule Egypt, it has ideologically controlled the country for nearly sixty years since the overthrow of the monarchy by the July 1952 coup d'état (euphemized as the "July Revolution"). The real question, then, is not whether the Muslim Brotherhood will seize power but whether it will continue to hold it, either directly or by proxy. The Free Officers' Islamist-Fascist Streak
US feared British 'sharia banks' would finance terrorist groups
Britain's enthusiastic support for "sharia banking" raised concerns in Washington that the City of London could become a centre of terrorist funding, leaked documents show.
To comply with Islamic law, Sharia banks' financial products do not pay or charge interest, and the banks cannot invest in alcohol, tobacco or gambling firms
It is less than three months after the momentous Egyptian revolution, and it is patently clear democracy will not be the future path of Egypt. Islamists have seized the moment and are determined to dictate the road for transition. Despite the denials from the military, the evidence overwhelmingly proves Field Marshal Tantawi has aided the Islamists in a secret treaty.
Christian-Muslim tension in Egypt: religious freedom must prevail
By Leonard Leo and Elizabeth H. Prodromou
While the world remains focused on how Egypt’s court of public opinion drove an autocrat from power, an Egyptian court of law recently rendered a verdict that is dismaying for those seeking a more democratic future.
A Christian cleric makes a speech as people demonstrate in front of the Egyptian Television building to protest the torching of a church in the village of Sol in Atfeeh, south of Cairo March 7, 2011. (PETER ANDREWS - REUTERS)
Christians flee from coming Shariah law Muslim overthrow of African nations leaves Copts terrified
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The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood says they want to institute Shariah law, while intelligence sources report al-Qaida is now staging attacks in the nation, prompting Egypt's Coptic Christians to believe that they'll soon be driven from their homeland.
International Christian Concern's Aidan Clay says the Copts' attitude has gone from uncertainty to fear. That fear is driving many Coptic Christians to try to leave Egypt.
“Hizb al Ikhwan al Muslimeen” - The party of the Muslim Brothers or
“Jamaat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun” - Society of the MB.
MB is a fundamentalist international organization or organizations originating in Egypt. MB goals are the conversion of Muslim countries into states ruled by Sha'aria (Shariah) law, the re-establishment of the Caliphate and ultimately, world dominion.
Brotherhood Lies, deception and perversion "Taqqiya"
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The official "Fact finding Commission" report into the Egyptian revolution has been released. The findings have been reported on by numerous media outlets.
These reports are all consistent, and confirm the Former interior Minister Habib Adely gave the order to use live ammunition and Mubarak denied any involvement. There is absolutely no mention of Mubarak's Sons in any of these reports.
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, (July 10, 1943 – July 5, 2010, Cairo) was an Egyptian Qur'anic thinker and one of the leading liberal theologians in Islam. He is famous for his project of a humanistic Qur’anic hermeneutics.
Zayd suffered major religious persecution for his views on Qur'an.
In 1995, he was promoted to the rank of full professor, but Islamic controversies about his academic work led to a court decision of apostasy and the denial of the appointment.
Egypt's revolution; Staggering in the right direction
Ex-president Hosni Mubarak and his sons are detained
SEVERAL other would-be revolutions in the Middle East have stalled or descended into civil war. But the biggest so far, in Egypt, is still going strong and also remains mostly peaceful. On April 13th Egyptian police detained the country’s former president, Hosni Mubarak, as well as his two sons. The Mubaraks face a possible trial on charges of corruption and abuse of power, a humiliation unprecedented for a former leader not only in Egypt, but across the wider Arab world.
If you thought wikileaks caused damage to some governments around the world,
they are no comparison to the documents salvaged by protestors when egypt's hated and despised security officers attempted to destroy the evidence.
For all those that read arabic many of the documents are posted on face book and twitter,much to the embarrassment of the egyptian government and a leading Islamic cleric.
Finally, Hosni Mubarak and his sons have been arrested, but the military council must work hard to restore Egyptians' confidence
Egyptian protesters outside the Sharm el Sheikh International Hospital where Hosni Mubarak was admitted. Photograph: Str/EPA
If there is one feature that would best describe the popular uprising in Egypt that turned into a full-fledged revolution it is sheer perseverance. Since the start of protests on 25 January and even after the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February, Egyptians have been demanding that Mubarak and his men be prosecuted and justice be served.
This March 9th, 2011 commemorates the memorial for the departure of Pope Cyril VI, one of the most beloved Popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Egypt, a 20th century aesthetic, a spiritual father for many contemporary Copts, and a saint with well-attested God-given prophecies and miracles. The writer would like to take this opportunity to offer thanks, all honor and glory to the ONE Triune God of all creation, and a tribute to His faithful servant and saint Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria. May Christ the Lord grant us all His peace, grace and blessings through the prayers and intercessions offered on our behalf by Pope Cyril VI and all His saints.
Post Egyptian revolution, the Muslim brotherhood has sought to shield them selves from accusations of criticism by allowing Salafists to take the lead on the streets and push their agenda. Today we read that Salafists are quickly menacing society, making extremists threats and using the tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood of Old.
Copts in Egypt are begging for Egyptian Armed Forces protection today after a Muslim mob of several thousand attacked their church in the village of Soul, about 30 kilometers from Cairo, last night. The Church of St. Mina and St. George was torched, and its clergy are unaccounted for. The fire department and security forces failed to respond to Coptic pleas for help during the arson attack.
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