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Egypt: "Unknown Assailants" Attack and Plunder Christian Youth

Tuesday, July 3nd, three "unknown assailants" in al-Minya, Egypt, attacked two Coptic Christian youths with knives and robbed them of 1,300 pounds, before fleeing the scene. While this incident may be dismissed as a mere crime inspired by plunder, there...

Muslim Persecution of Christians: May, 2012

Unlike those nations, such as Saudi Arabia, that have eliminated Christianity altogether, Muslim countries with significant Christian minorities saw much persecution during the month of May: in Egypt, Christians were openly discriminated against in law...

Robert Fisk Demonizes Mideast's Persecuted Christians

Robert Fisk, the Middle East correspondent for the U.K.'s widely-read Independent, recently showed why it is that Islamic jihadists and terrorists, including the late Osama bin Laden, strongly recommend his propaganda to Western readers. In a recent...

Egypt: Muslims force Christians out of church during prayer, police advise priest to comply

According to a story in yesterday's Mideast Christian News, Muslims in the village of Basra in Alexandria, Egypt, surrounded the local Coptic church, St. Lyons, during divine liturgy, "demanding that visiting Copts leave the church before the completion...

The Evils of the Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt's longtime banned Muslim Brotherhood—the parent organization of nearly every subsequent Islamist movement, including al-Qaeda—has just won the nation's presidency, in the name of its candidate, Muhammad Morsi. That apathy reigns in the...

Congressman Calls for Hearings on 'Radicalization' of White Christian Women

During a Homeland Security committee hearing last week on the "Radicalization of Muslim-Americans," Texas Congressman Al Green (D) criticized the hearings as biased and unfair to Muslims, suggesting that the only way to justify them is if Congress would...

Kuwaiti Preacher Compares Dead Egyptian Singer, Umm Kalthum, to 'Evil Tree'

Sheikh Mubarak al-Bathali of Kuwait recently objected to the name of the late Egyptian singer, Umm Kalthum (1904-1975), widely regarded as the greatest female singer in Arab music history. He insisted that "Umm Kalthum is the [name of the] daughter of...

First Apostasy Lawsuit Comes to Jordan

The true face of the "Arab Awakening' continues to manifest itself. According to Al Sawt, prosecutors associated with Jordan's Salafi movement have brought a lawsuit to the Sharia Court of Amman—a lawsuit being called "the first of its kind" in modern...

Egypt: Mosque "Prayer Leader" Stabs Nephew to Death

According to Egypt's Al Dostor, earlier this month in Tanta, Egypt, an imam of a mosque—a prayer leader and model of Muslim piety—slaughtered his own nephew with a knife because the latter refused to marry the imam's daughter. Along with the nephew, a...

Egypt: Islamists vs. Copts

As Egypt's presidential elections come to a close, with the Brotherhood claiming presidential victory, the future of Egypt's indigenous Christians, the Copts, looks bleak. Earlier, after the first presidential elections of May 23-24, any number of...