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Islam's Black Flag Flies over Egypt

The United States embassy of Egypt is under siege. According to Fox News, "Mainly ultraconservative Islamist protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt's capital Tuesday and brought down the flag, replacing it with a black flag with an...

The Tip of the Iceberg of Christian Persecution

Two Christians living in the Islamic world under arrest and awaiting execution—the one charged with apostasy, the other with blasphemy—were just released. According to a September 8 report on CNN, "A Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran for...

Jihadis Threaten to Burn U.S. Embassy in Cairo

Jihadi groups in Egypt, including Islamic Jihad, the Sunni Group, and Al Gamaa Al Islamiyya have issued a statement threatening to burn the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to the ground. According to El Fagr, they are calling for the immediate release of the...

Female Advisor to Egyptian President: Girls Not Circumcised "Lacking in Faith"

Earlier this week, Egypt's Tahrir News conducted an interview with Dr. Amima Kamal, advisor to President Morsi on Women's Affairs, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, and a member of the Constituent Assembly. The discussion...

Egyptian Father Kills Three Daughters with Snakes

A tragic story concerning an Egyptian father who killed his three young daughters with snakes last April was largely missed in the West. According to Emirates24: An Egyptian man killed his three young daughters aged 7, 5 and 3 by letting a poisonous...

The Collective Punishment of Egypt's Christian Copts

Last month saw Egypt's latest large-scale "collective punishment" of Christian Copts. It started when a Christian launderer accidently burned the shirt of a Muslim customer, which led to a brawl between the two Egyptians (first reported here). The next...

Victimization of Egypt's Christians Worse After Revolution

While some are aware that the Christians of war-torn Syria and Iraq are regularly abducted and held for large ransoms by Western-sponsored "freedom fighters," it is largely unknown in the West that the Christians of Egypt—which is not war-torn and has a...

Muslim Clerics: Kill All Who Insult Islam

Recently an Egyptian Muslim posted a YouTube videotape of himself cursing Islam, its holy book, the Koran, tearing the latter to pieces and throwing it in the garbage. Excerpts of what he said follow: There it is, Allah's book, this is the basic...

Crucifixions, Not Fictions

I recently wrote an article based on Arabic reports that Muslim Brotherhood supporters had crucified Morsi's opponents. Because it was picked up by several websites and disseminated far and wide, as usual, Islam's apologists and others claimed "hoax."...

Muslim Persecution of Christians: July, 2012

Several reports appearing in July indicate that Christian minorities all around the Muslim world—especially women and children—are being abducted, tortured, raped, forced to convert to Islam, and/or enslaved. In Egypt, at least 550 such cases have been...