American Egyptian Coptic Christians to organize a peaceful demonstration, on July 16, 2008, in front of the White House, to protest violent attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt

 

Written by Coptic organizations in the United States

Coptic Organizations in America along with activists from Egypt, the Middle East, Europe and the United states, will conduct a peaceful demonstration in front of the White House on Wednesday July 16, 2008, from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm.

The purpose is to convey, to world's opinion and international human rights organizations, the systematic and continuous persecution, murders, discrimination, marginalization, and the organized (by the security police, and muslim organizations) kidnapping of Coptic girls inflicted on Coptic Christians of Egypt by the Egyptian government and Muslim “extremists,” which in many cases represent the whole "moderate" population of a village or a town, following recent killings and attacks on Christian homes, businesses and institutions.

We will expose the persecution of the Coptic Christians of Egypt, including unprovoked attacks against Coptic families, churches, monasteries, homes and businesses. During the past few weeks, news agencies worldwide reported attacks against the Copts in towns and cities of Zaitoun, Alexandria, Abu Fana, Dafash, El Menia, Luxor, and Fayoum. The situation became so bad to the extent that attempts were made to force Coptic monks to denounce their faith under torture and death threats.

Dear Brothers and Sisters

Come join us in condemning the oppression and ethnic cleansing inflicted on the Coptic Christians of Egypt.

 

Many of our brethren pay the ultimate price which is their lives for their faith and freedom of religion, and we only ask you to sacrifice just a few hours of your time to declare your support of your oppressed brothers and sisters in Egypt by deed not just talk.

 

In addition to violent attacks by Muslim extremists, the Copts of Egypt suffer from discriminatory laws and practices imposed on them by the Egyptian government. These practices include restrictions on church building, under representation in Parliament (less than 1%), and discrimination in jobs and promotions. Most high ranking jobs in Egypt are out of reach for Copts. [These are issues that are too numerous to mention here and will be the subject of a book that will be published in America soon by Coptic organizations and American researchers.]

 

We call on the American and International Media, human rights

organizations, churches and Christian organizations and all freedom loving people to join our demonstration to send a message to the Egyptian government to stop persecuting the Copts and take responsibility in providing adequate protection for them.

 

Use the gift that God gave you and be an honest witness to what happens in Egypt. God, who gave you freedom in America, gave you also the responsibility to defend the right of your people in Egypt for freedom and security.

 

We invite our Ethiopian and Sudanese brothers and sisters in the Washington DC area to take part in this demonstration to defend the persecuted Coptic Church. [Ethiopian and Sudanese Christians belong to the same Coptic Church.]

 

Those who live in the Washington DC area may go directly to the location of the demonstration. Those who don’t have transportation may gather at St. Mark Coptic Church in Virginia at 10:00A.M., Wednesday July 16, 2008. Those who are coming from other States may go directly to the location of the demonstration.  Those who are coming from New Jersey and New York may use buses provided by the American Coptic Association in New Jersey.

 

We will be joined in Washington D.C. by several Congressmen and Senators, including Congressman Frank Wolf who introduced House Resolution 1303, condemning the Egyptian government’s human rights violations, and several TV stations will cover the demonstration.    

For more information, please contact:

 

Mounir Bishay, Los Angeles (310) 641- 3387

Jacob Keryakos, New Jersey (732) 414- 9451

Fayez Khella, New Jersey (201) 424- 0278

Dr. Dawoud, New Jersey (201) 424- 1001

Atef Jacoub, Washington DC (703) 863- 7069

Selim Naguib, Montreal (514) 485- 4550

Atef Macar, Chicago (630) 878- 1333

 

The use of the buses from the different locations is offered for ALL who want to join our demonstration, Copts and non Copts. Please feel welcomed to call the Coptic organization representative nearest you for the locations and schedules of the buses. 

 

A reminder for those who are not aware of history: Copts are the native people of Egypt, the descendants of the Ancient Egyptians. Egypt was majority Copts, beside a large and thriving Jewish community. The Jews were driven out of Egypt by the mid fifties after confiscating all their properties, and since then the successive muslim governments of Egypt are working according to plan, "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people."

 

It's Egyptian muslims that spread the ideology of jihad through Al Azhar missionary sheiks worldwide and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Saudis were the financiers. It's no coincidence that Mohammad Atta, the leader of the 911 (glorious ghazwa) massacre, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, serving life in America for the 1993 WTC bombing, Sheik El Qaradawi, and Zawahri (the brain), just to name few illustrious ones are all Egyptians.  

We are certain that the (near) future will prove to everyone that the Copts fight against islamic terror in their own country is not separate from the war on terror in America. For islam, we’re in the same boat.     

 

Coptic Christians in Egypt Under Assault

7/11/2008

Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

"The Copts of Egypt are the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. They number about 18% of Egypt's population of 80 million."

 

WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Christian Newswire reports that there will be a rally to show solidarity with Coptic Christians in Egypt who face increasing persecution:

"Rally in Support of Coptic Christians in Egypt
American Egyptian Coptic Christians to organize a peaceful demonstration, on July 16, 2008, in front of the White House, to protest violent attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt."


Contact: Mounir Bishay, 310-641-3387

"Coptic Organizations in America along with activists from Egypt, the Middle East, Europe and the United states, will conduct a peaceful demonstration in front of the White House on Wednesday July 16, 2008, from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm."

"The purpose is to convey, to world's opinion and international human rights organizations, recent incidents of persecution, discrimination and marginalization inflicted on Coptic Christians of Egypt by the Egyptian government and Muslim extremists."

"The Copts of Egypt are the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. They number about 18% of Egypt's population of 80 million. Not a month passes by without their churches, homes and businesses being attacked."

"According to a study made by Ibn Khaldoun Research Center in Cairo (headed by Dr. Saad El Deen Ibrahim, a muslim) over 240 major attacks against the Copts took place during the period from 1972- 2003." [ Emphasis between coma added.]

"Magdy Khalil, a writer and researcher, estimates that as a result of these attacks more than 4000 Copts were killed or injured." [And not one muslim criminal was convicted for any crime committed against Christian Copts based on the Sharia law, "No muslim should be punished for killing a kafir."]  

"This, in addition to damages to Coptic properties that could exceed hundreds of millions of dollars, during the last three decades alone. Hundreds of Coptic girls are abducted and forced to embrace Islam while security forces act as accomplices and helpers of the criminals."

"During the last few weeks, the extremists attacked a jewelry store owned by Copts killing four Copts. The extremists also attacked Abu Fana Coptic monastery injuring many monks and kidnapping three."

"The abducted monks were tortured, while they were ordered to announce abandoning their Christian faith and embracing Islam. In Fayoum , Muslim extremists attacked homes and businesses owned by Coptic Christians."

"A Coptic Christian man was killed by Muslims in the town of Dafash, governorate of Minia, in the southern part of Egypt, and a 17 year old youngman was slaughtered in Luxor beside the injured,  and destructions of homes and businesses." [And the ongoing Mohammad's famous legacy of kidnapping, raping, and forced islamization of Coptic girls. Known since the time of the pedophile prophet as, "Spreading islam through the vagina."]

  

Future demonstrations, July 23rd in New York and Rome, Italy

 

The association Voice of the Copts would like to inform you that on July 23, 2008 at 12:00 noon next to the United Nation building in New York City, intend to have a peaceful protest against the criminal acts occurred in Egypt against Copts (Christians of Egypt) and other religious minorities.
After gathering and protesting we plan to move towards the Egyptian council to bring our protest to the Egyptian authority.
The same action will take place at the same time in Rome Italy, next to the Egyptian Embassy in Rome.

Herewith, Voice of the Copts is inviting all of whom believe and fight for human rights to join us in our peaceful but firm request that we want to bring to the whole world in order to protect innocent people oppressed and discriminated only because their faith is different than the majority. We also protest against the carelessness of the Egyptian government to protect archeologist and ancient Coptic Monasteries and Churches.

 

Pictures of the demonstration in Athens, Greece (to view full set of pictures here)

 

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Pictures of the demonstration in Vienna, Austria (to view full set of pictures here)

 

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Demonstration in Sidney, Australia (to view full set of pictures here)

 

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To view Ottawa, Canada demonstration here 

To view the Netherlands demonstration here 

To view Paris, France demonstration here

 

Words are not enough to express our deepest thanks to all non Copts in every European country, Ottawa Canada, California US, and Sidney Australia who felt that our fight against the jihadists’ terror is one and the same, and joined us in a beautiful show of solidarity. We also thank all members of parliaments and government officials who addressed the crowds on behalf of their governments, and raised the fully documented persecution of the Copts of Egypt with their respective governments and parliaments with our demands. We can’t forget to express our thanks to all the media and particularly the TV stations that covered every demonstration.

The last two weeks we were practically on the road with different Coptic organizations in the US and Canada, and Never before have I witnessed such enormous efforts, unity, activism, and synchronization among Copts in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia with a sincere desire to expose to the Western world, which is also our world, what many still ignore to their own detriment.

We lived with islam for 1400 years, and the history and legacy of 1400 years can’t lie. I can put it in a more familiar formula: what you see (the islam that Copts are exposing to the world) is what you’ll get.

Last but not least, the whole Egyptian media, the hyenas of the regime, are mounting the most vicious attack. Accusing the Copts of the Diaspora, particularly the US Copts, with the whole list of the too familiar accusations, used and recycled for the last fifty years, starting by being the biggest renegades for not realizing that the Copts of Egypt are the luckiest minority in the world since the light of islam shined with its love and tolerance on Egypt. And we’re only denying this to mount a vicious defamation campaign against the good reputation of Egypt and ruin the brotherly 1400 years of peaceful cohabitation between Copts and muslims. Ending with the all time classic of being used in a Zionist-American imperialistic antagonistic capitalistic conspirationistic anti-islamistic schemetistic operation to destabilize Egypt according to a hidden Zionist-American plan.

Their aim, as usual, is to blackmail the Coptic Church authorities into denying any mistreatment or injustice, and denounce any external interference. But that too is a very old game that all Western governments are fully aware of. The problem with perpetual liars and deceivers is they think that the rest of the world is like them, with water melons on top of their shoulders instead of brains. 

These facts have been posted almost a year ago, July 5, 2007, by Patrick Poole. Except for the increasing number of attacks on the Christian minorities in Muslims dominated countries, more loss of lives and properties, what is stated is more relevant now than ever before. It complements what we’ve been reporting on lately, and it deserves to be widely spread. It is definitely a must read, (thanks to Louis).

 

Islam’s Global War against Christianity
By Patrick Poole

 

From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder that are so widespread and systematic that it can rightfully be called the new Holocaust. This time, however, the perpetrators of this Holocaust aren’t wearing swastikas, but kufi skull caps and hijabs.

 

Some of the oldest Christian communities in the world are subject to relentless attack and teeter on the brink of extinction at the hands of the “Religion of Peace”: Palestinian Christians in Gaza and the West Bank; Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in Iraq; Coptic Christians in Egypt; Evangelical and Orthodox Christians in Eastern Ethiopia and Eritrea; Armenian Orthodox Christians in Turkey; and Maronite Christians in Lebanon.

 

Several of these communities date back to the beginning decades of Christianity and all have weathered wave after wave of Islamic persecution for centuries and more, but in the very near future some will simply cease to exist. In our lifetime, the only trace of their past existence will be in footnotes in history books (and probably only Western history books at that).

 

Meanwhile, we in the West hear much from radical Islam’s apologists how the US is engaged in a war against Islam citing of our military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are lectured on the inviolability of the Muslim ummah and justifications of defensive jihad.

 

But an extensive search this past weekend of the websites of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim American Society, the Muslim Student Association, the Fiqh Council of North America, and the Muslim Public Affairs Committee - the most visible institutional representatives of Islam in America - found not a single mention or reference of the religious persecution of Christians by their Islamic co-religionists, thereby making them tacit co-conspirators in the Final Solution to the Christian problem in the Muslim world.

 

The global war on Christianity by Islam is so massive in size and scope that it is virtually impossible to describe without trivializing it. Inspired by Muslim Brotherhood ideology and fueled by billions of Wahhabi petrodollars, the religious cleansing of Christians from the Muslim world is continuing at a break-neck pace, as the following recent examples demonstrate.

 

Iraq: In the current issue of the American Spectator, Doug Bandow observes that centuries of dhimmitude have left Christians in the war-torn country without any means of self-defense. Washington policymakers have refused to lend assistance for fear of showing partiality, despite the murder of hundreds of Iraqi Christians, the kidnapping and torture of Christian clerics, the repeated bombings of Christian churches, the torching of Christian businesses, and the flight of close to half of the entire Iraqi Christian population since April 2003. Those who remain have been subject to the imposition of shari’a by the Shi’ite Mahdi Army and Sunni militias (al-Qaeda doesn’t bother with such niceties, preferring to murder them immediately instead), including the recent published threat in Mosul of killing one member of every Christian family in that city for Christian women not wearing the hijab and continuing to attend school. (Be sure to remember that the next time an Islamist apologist claims that the hijab is a symbol of women’s liberation.)

 

Egypt: Journalist Magdi Khalil chronicles in a new report (”Another Black Friday for the Coptic Christians of Egypt”)  the campaign of violence directed against Christian Copts almost weekly immediately following Friday afternoon Muslim prayers. Inspired by Islamist imams preaching religious hatred in mosques all over the country and protected by government officials willing to look the other way, rampaging mobs of Muslims set upon Christians churches, businesses and individuals, from Alexandria to cities all the way up the Nile. Coptic holy days are also favorite times for Muslim violence, which the Egyptian media likes to describe as “sectarian strife” - as if it were actually a two-sided affair.

 

Gaza: Ethel Fenig recently noted here at American Thinker (”More Gaza Multiculturalism”)  the systematic destruction of churches and desecration of Christian religious objects by Jihadia Salafiya following the HAMAS takeover of the Gaza Strip from their Fatah rivals and the imposition of Islamic rule. The head of Jihadia Salafiya told reporter Aaron Klein that any suspected Christian missionary activity in the area will be “dealt with harshly”. (Ynet News)


Saudi Arabia: According to the Arab News, a Sri Lankan Christian man barely escaped with his life in late May when he was found working in the city of Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, which is officially barred to non-Muslims. In December, an Indian man had been sentenced to death for accidentally entering the city, but was spared after the Indian embassy made an urgent appeal to the Saudi Supreme Court.

Pakistan: In Islamabad, Younis Masih was sentenced last month to death under the country’s frequently invoked blasphemy laws, which were also used against six Christian women suspended from a nursing school after they were accused of desecrating a Quran. And as protests against Salman Rushdie’s knighthood raged, a Muslim mob armed with guns, axes and sticks attacked Christians worshipping in a Salvation Army church in Bismillahlpur Kanthan. (Associated Press; United Press International; Mission News Network)

 

Bangladesh: Almost a dozen Christian converts in the Nilphamari district were beaten last week by Muslim villagers wielding bricks and clubs, and threatened with death if they did not leave town immediately. Local hospitals subsequently refused them treatment. Christians in the area have also been prevented from using the only potable water well in the area after a pronouncement by religious authorities at the mosque in Durbachari. This came after 42 former Muslims were baptized as Christians in the local river on June 12. (Compass News Direct)

 

Malaysia: Government authorities demolished a church building on June 4th in Orang Asli settlement in Gua Musang in Ulu Kelantan, despite prior government approval of the project. The church was built on donated property after the entire village had converted to Christianity just a few months ago. Also in late May, the Malaysian high court ruled that Muslims who convert to Christianity must appeal to the religious shari’a courts to officially be deregistered as Muslims and reregistered as a Christians. (Journal Chretien; Associated Press)

 

Indonesia: Agence France Presse reported last month on an attack by the Islamic Anti-Apostate Movement, who stormed a church service in a Protestant church in the West Java town of Soreang. The AFP report notes that more than 30 churches have been forced to close in West Java and dozens more throughout the country in recent years due to Muslim violence, churches which were among the few spared during the outbreak of hostilities during 1997-1998, where hundreds of Christian churches were burned to the ground and never rebuilt.

 

Turkey: The Christian community is still reeling from the torture and ritual slaughter of three Protestants at a Christian publishing house in Malatya in April by an armed Islamist gang, which was preceded by the murder last year of Catholic priest Andrea Santoro in Trabzon and the assassination of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul in January. An additional six men allegedly associated with the same Muslim gang were arrested on May 30th for plotting an attack on a Christian pastor in Diyarbakir. (Lebanon Daily Star; ADKNI)

 

Cyprus: The Cyprus Mail reports that during a meeting last month in Rome the Archbishop of the Cypriot Greek Orthodox Church pleaded with the Vatican Secretary of State for the Pope’s assistance to pressure Turkish authorities in restoring and repairing Christian sites and churches in areas occupied since the invasion of the island nation by Turkey in July 1974 and the ethnic cleansing of 160,000 Greek Christian Cypriots.

 

Lebanon: More than 60,000 Christians have left the country since last summer’s war between Hezbollah and Israel, fearing the rise of both Sunni and Shi’ite extremism and terrorist activity. The Sunday Telegraph recently revealed the results of a poll finding that at least half of Lebanon’s Maronite community were considering leaving the country. More than 100,000 have already submitted visa applications at foreign embassies.

 

Algeria: In what is considered one of the more “moderate” Muslim regimes, Al-Quds Al-Arabi announced that the Algerian government has just issued regulations requiring advance permission for non-Muslim public events, following a 2006 law aimed at limiting Christian evangelism in the Kabylia region and the Sahara. (MEMRI )

 

Morocco: In the country that The Economist magazine in 2005 anointed “the best Arab democracy”, all Moroccans are considered Muslims at birth and face three years in prison if they attempt to convert. They are also prohibited from entering any of the few churches permitted to operate for the foreign inhabitants of the country. Moroccan Christians must operate covertly for fear of imprisonment by the government and attacks by Islamists. They cannot bury their dead in Christian cemeteries, and they must be married by Islamic authorities or face charges of adultery. Late last year, a 64 year-old German tourist, Sadek Noshi Yassa, was sentenced to six months in jail and fined for missionary activity. (Journal Chretien)

 

Nigeria: Police in Gombe arrested sixteen suspects after a Muslim mob stoned, stripped, beat, and finally stabbed to death a Christian teacher, Christiana Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, after she caught a student cheating on an exam in March. Her body was then burned beyond recognition by the mob who falsely accused her of desecrating a Quran. The suspects were released last month without any charges being filed, prompting Christian leaders to accuse government authorities of a cover-up and raising concerns about additional attacks. (Christian Today)

 

Eritrea: Just a few weeks ago, the Islamic government installed a new Orthodox Patriarch after they removed the previous Patriarch and placed him under house arrest for no stated reason. Compass News Direct reported in February the death of Magos Solomon Semere, a Christian who had been imprisoned in a military jail for four and a half years for illegal Christian worship, the third Christian to die in government custody since October. Authorities have also cracked down on unapproved churches, jailing at least two thousand Protestants and members of the Medhane Alem Orthodox renewal movement since the beginning of the year and publicly burning confiscated Bibles. (Christian Post; Compass News Direct ; Journal Chretien)

 

It is not an exaggeration to say that I could extend this brief list ad infinitum with additional Islamic countries and news items from just the past few weeks’ worth of incidents of violence, discrimination, intimidation and murder targeting Christians in the Muslim world. In many instances, the government and religious authorities in these Muslim countries work hand-in-hand in their campaign of religious persecution.

 

A scene in the Academy Award-winning movie Schindler’s List gives us some insight into what is happening all across the Muslim world with respect to Christianity. As the SS Commandant Amon Göth and his Nazi Stormtroopers prepare to liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland, Göth (played in the movie by Ralph Fiennes) gives his men a peptalk:

 

For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. Think about that. By this evening, those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened. Today is history.

 

This scene is being repeated in the Friday sermons in mosques and on Islamic satellite TV all over the world, only this time it is the Christians in addition to the Jews who are targets. Great efforts are being made to make the two-thousand year history of Christianity in North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia a blasphemous rumor. Soon students in Turkey will be taught that the Hagia Sophia, the greatest architectural structure in the Muslim world, wasn’t built by the Christian Emperor Justinian in the Sixth Century, but by the Sultan Mehmed II a thousand years later after the Ottomans seized the Byzantine capital. That Christians lived at all in the Muslim world, let alone that much of the territory occupied by Muslims used to be Christian lands before the Islamic Wars of Conquest, will be nothing but a rumor by the end of this century punishable according to the precepts of shari’a.

 

President Bush announced last week that he will be sending a special envoy to the 57-member Organization of Islamic Countries. Hopefully, the systematic persecution of Christians and other religious minorities will be the first and primary item in the new envoy’s portfolio, with the 2007 annual report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and the State Department’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, which name virtually every single country in the OIC for its human rights abuses and religious cleansing, as evidence for our country’s concern.

 

The fact remains that not a single Christian or Jew lives in peace in the Muslim world, and if it is truly our nation’s foreign policy to spread democracy around the world, this issue is the perfect topic for us to press. Back at home, raising Islam’s global war on Christianity should be the immediate response to the seemingly endless media grievance machine of radical Islam’s Western apologists. Until they begin to address the new Holocaust perpetrated in the name of Islam, their complaints and denials are nothing but bald hypocrisy.

 

Patrick Poole is an occasional contributor to American Thinker. He maintains a blog, Existential Space.

We encourage all Anti-Jihadist sites, and individuals to promote this resolution. Its success will be another step forward in our war on Islamic terror.

 

The U.S. Congress and the Leadership council for Human Rights condemn Mubarak, the godfather of Egypt that parades himself as the champion, for the Palestinian rights and war on terror while denying 15 million Copts of their basic rights, and expose him for what he really is. [A true muslim. This is the best qualification we should use, that should say it all, to address these creatures.]

 

The beauty is, they will understand what we mean by that when you slap them with it in the face, don’t forget the smile, but they won’t be able to accuse you of anything.

 

Actually I’m looking forward for the day when muslims and Islamic organizations like CAIR and company start suing us for calling them, true muslim followers of mohammad, knowing how much they’re proud of that infamous name that many of them carry. To give them a double dose of, “Feel the pride.”

 

When it gets to their bones, and we reach the point of being accused as islamophobic and spreading hate speech, for calling them true muslim followers of mohammad, that will be the day when they’ll bring down the house of islam with their own hands on their heads. And that will be the day when you’ll see scores of muslims wearing crosses and stars of David and calling themselves Mike and Emily instead of mohammad and eisha.

 

I particularly advise the radio shows, and television talk show hosts exposing islam to use this strategy. Can you imagine a headline like, “CAIR officials sue Michael Savage for calling them, true muslim followers of mohammad?”

 

We debate muslims every day, and we know the effect. Many muslims became ex-muslims when it made them regain conscience and forced them to connect with the deeds of mohammad and islam.

 

It is also a double formula. For muslims claiming to be against terrorism, against beating women, against killing kafirs and apostate, calling for peaceful co-existence between all people, equal rights for women and minorities, against the “marriage” of baby girls, against anti Semitism and defaming other religions, etc, etc, we congratulate them for not being true muslims and having a much higher morality than mohammad. But we ask them from where they got all this beautiful teaching, since it’s not in the Koran, and contradicts mohammad’s deeds, unless they can give us the references to correct our lack of knowledge.

 

Besides, telling a muslim that he’s a true muslim follower of mohammad is perfectly, “Politically correct.” But it will give political correctness a new dimension that will serve our purpose.

 

LCHR Applauds Egypt Human Rights Resolution, Urges Support   

 

Written by LCHR   

Wednesday, 27 June 2008

Washington, D.C. – The Leadership Council for Human Rights strongly supports H. Res. 1303, calling on the Egyptian Government to respect human rights and freedoms of religion and expression in Egypt.  LCHR expresses its appreciation to Congressional Human Rights Caucus Co-Chair Frank Wolf for introducing this important resolution, which details Egypt's human rights abuses against religious minorities, journalists and bloggers, democracy proponents, and civil society development organizations.  The resolution also urges the President and the Secretary of State to prioritize human rights and religious freedom in meetings with Egyptian officials.

LCHR applauds Rep. Wolf for his consistent leadership on the human rights situation in Egypt.  Tragically, many Egyptians have been unable to claim and enjoy their rights because of widespread repression.  Religious minorities like the Copts and Baha'is are subject to discrimination at every level, and political opponents of the ruling regime, including Ayman Nour, have been targeted and jailed.  Egypt's President, Hosni Mubarak, has promised democratic reforms time and again.  These promises have gone unfulfilled.

 

Please call and encourage your Member of Congress to co-sponsor H. Res. 1303.  Your support is vital for the success of the resolution, which if passed will send President Mubarak a clear message that Egypt must respect human rights.  Current co-sponsors include Reps. Burton, Smith, Franks, Fossella, Kirk, McCotter, Schakowsky, Souder, Davis, Pitts, Waters, Pence, McGovern, and Goode.

 

Proposed letter

 

Date:

 

The Honorable XXXXX
(Address)

 

RE:      Request to Co-Sponsor Resolution H.Res.1303
 

Dear Congressman XXXXX,

 

I/ We, as members of your district, are writing this letter to kindly ask for your assistance in supporting the aforementioned resolution that admonishes the Egyptian government’s egregious violations of human rights and religious freedoms.  This resolution also requests that Egypt ends all forms of harassment and fully implement protection of religious minorities. 

 

We, as Coptic Christians and Americans of Egyptian descent, are extremely concerned with the plight of all Christians in the Middle East, and especially with our Coptic brothers and sisters in Egypt.  The Copts of Egypt are the last sizable Christian population left in the Middle East, and are also Egypt’s largest religious minority group.

 

Egypt’s violations of human rights and religious freedoms have been on the Congressional agenda for some time.  However, violations of human rights in Egypt have continued to worsen significantly; and this severe decline and lack of improvement by the Egyptian government prompted:

1.   Two European Union Parliament resolutions (one on Nov. 15th, 2007 and one on Jan. 18th, 2008) that condemn Egypt’s violations of human rights and religious freedoms

2.  This new proposed US resolution, which will prove to the world that the Americans will always defend democracy and human rights throughout the world; showing our support for helping those who are helpless.

 

We are writing to respectfully request that you join in co-sponsoring this resolution.  Your knowledge and expertise would be a great addition to this resolution.

 

The lead sponsor of this resolution is Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia.  On Friday April 18th, Mr. Wolf’s office sent out a “Dear Colleague” email asking for support of this resolution and it includes the contact information for Elizabeth Hoffman in Congressman Wolf’s office.

 

We sincerely thank you for your time and attention to this important matter.

 

Sincerely,

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No one on earth knows Islam and muslims better than the Copts. Will the West get the message and wake up? 

All the reports we posted about muslims' terror attacks,  and the persecution of Arab governments of the native Christian minorities, were not aimed to plead with Western governments for the sake of the Copts or the Christians of the Middle East, these governments can't even control the muslim populations in their own countries, but to expose to the Western public the amount of hate, rage, and viciousness ordinary muslim "moderates," are capable of, which is limitless, for the cause of allah. All this hate and viciousness exist already in the West with well organized, well financed cells, more motivated, more creative, more indoctrinated, more recruiting and in much more better position than prior to 911. They even hold their own motivational gatherings, seminars, and became bolder and more immune than ever before.   

Did Western populations became the hostage of islam or collateral damage for the special interests and the Arab lobby?       

We made sure at all times that every US administration, the Congress, and all Western governments  were fully informed and documented by all Coptic organizations, human rights organizations, and their Embassies of the quasi official ethnic cleansing going on against all native Middle Eastern Christians. But in their equation, their special interests with the muslim world and particularly the oil lobby, made their defense for universal human rights, and freedom of religion principles, just empty words, even disregarding an all out islamic radicalization, in Egypt and across the muslim world that ultimately feeds islamic terrorism in the West. 

  

Los Angeles Times 

In the midst of continuing sectarian tensions between Muslims and Coptic Christians in Egypt [Read: continuing muslims attacks] the Coptic Diaspora has recently called for demonstrations in the U.S. and European cities. [There will be demonstrations also in Canada and Australia.]

Hundreds of Coptic migrants took to the streets in the Netherlands, France and the U.S., raising banners reading "Save Christians in Egypt," "Stop Islamic Terrorism" and "Help! Christians of Egypt are under attack."

The protests follow an eruption of violence between Muslims and Copts [Read: eruption of muslims violent attacks against the peaceful Copts] in several parts of Egypt. Last month a land dispute involving a Coptic monastery left one Muslim man killed [This muslim never set foot in the monastery, and neither his body, nor any autopsy report were ever produced] in the southern province of Menya. Four Copts, including two monks, were injured. The clash [Again, read: the muslim terrorists thugs attack. The monks never clashed with the thug’s attackers] arose after the monastery began building a wall around neighboring farming land, saying it belonged to the church. Days earlier in Cairo, four Copts were shot dead in a jewelry shop by two gunmen who fled without stealing anything. [Egypt is a police state, if the four slaughtered were muslims, the police would've got the perpetrators in less than 24 hours.] 

Egypt is predominantly Sunni Muslim; the Coptic minority is believed to constitute almost 10% of a population of 78 million. [Copts in Egypt numbers no less than 18% (14-15 millions), by the Coptic Church estimate. Since the military coup d’état (military putsch), in 1952, all consecutive governments refused to do any census, to marginalize the Copts who are represented by 0.88% in the Egyptian parliament, one government Minister, and 0% in everything else including the media, sport teams, and even in show business.] An estimated 2 million Copts live in the Diaspora.

 [Read: 2 million that were forced to leave. Dr. Magdy Yacoub, the most prominent and world renowned heart surgeon in the world, based in London, Britain, and knighted by the Queen, was told bluntly, after graduating, 1st of his class from medical school in Egypt: "don't expect to have a future in the university as a teacher, there is no room for a Christian donkey here, we don't want you here." This is the, "Academic," language the distinguished medical school professors used, if that tells you something. 

The same thing could be said about a great number of the most prominent Coptic doctors in the Cleveland Clinic and all over the Western world, just to name two examples. Dr., Professor, Sir Magdi Yacoub, and the prominent Coptic doctors of the Cleveland Clinic paid back those muslim Egyptians that called them Coptic donkeys and threw them out, in a very special way. 

For more than 25 years, Dr.Yacoub takes his whole medical team; twice a year to Egypt, giving up his holidays, to give life by providing free heart surgery for poor children that otherwise would have no chance of surviving. That's beside the lectures he gives, to the top Egyptian medical professors. He established and developed heart surgery departments in several medical schools, lobbied international organizations and Western governments to provide all the medical equipments necessary for these departments, provided scholarships and internships to a score of Egyptian doctors to train under his guidance in Britain, all for free.

Anwar Sadat, one of the biggest oppressors of the Copts during his presidency, and responsible for two infamous Copt massacres, declared publicly in the Egyptian parliament, "I am a muslim president of a muslim country, ” when he was shot, immediately his wife called the Egyptian Embassy in London to prepare a private plane to transport Dr. Yacoub in emergency to Cairo. But the God of the Copts was faster in treating him and took him to where mohammad, his buddy, was, before Dr. Yacoub boarded the plane.

Imagine for a second, if president Bush declared solemnly and publicly in a speech  televised nationally from the US Congress, "I am a Christian president for a Christian country." What you think would happen? I'll leave that to you.  

Dr. Yacoub, "The Coptic donkey," is more famous in Egypt than the president, Hosni Mubarak. He is regarded as a virtual deity, revered, almost God-like.

The same story, from beginning to end, could be told about Dr. Fawzy G. Estafanous, chairman, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He is another world renowned, "Coptic Donkey," that his contribution to the Cleveland Clinic, for the last forty years, made it what it is today. To be treated by him, all the kings and presidents (the gang) of the Arab world, made the Clinic their medical Mecca, and trust their lives into the hands of Dr. Estafanous rather than their allah and mohammad's recipe of camel urine.

He also paid back those muslim Egyptians that forced him out, by denying him an assistant professor position, in the same manner as Dr.Yacoub. He was instrumental in advancing medical studies all over the Arab world, establishing advanced research center, giving the opportunity to scores of Egyptian and arab doctors to be trained in the Clinic under his, and other Copt doctors, guidance. Treated scores of poor Egyptians with his team, all free.

The contribution of the Copts to Egypt was not limited to the medical field with these two examples from many others.

Dr.Adel Sedra was refused a teacher assistant position at the faculty of engineering, Cairo University to pursue graduate studies for being another, 'Coptic donkey." He too paid back, by opening the door, and providing scholarships to scores of Egyptian muslim engineers in the most prestigious world class engineering faculties of Toronto and Waterloo Universities for which he's the Dean, and helped establish the most advanced technology research centers in many Egyptian universities.

Hundreds of stories could be told, but we'll stop here and ask a question: did all this changed the hearts and minds of Egyptian muslims towards the Copts? to answer this I'll ask you another question that will help you get the answer. Did the opportunities and the open arms hospitality extended by Britain changed the minds and hearts of the suicide "Doctor," bombers? Did it changed the hearts and minds of Abu Hamza el Masri, Abu Qatada, and scores of other muslims when Britain granted them asylum to save them from hanging at the end of a rope in their own countries, and provided them, and their extended families, security, housing, and a comfortable life, all compliment from the British tax payer? did it changed the hearts and minds of Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh and mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing when America let him in to save him from the hands of the Egyptian government, or El Amoudi, or Sami El Erian that was given generously the opportunity to live the American dream?

There is another measurement we can use to gauge the muslims equation. On who's hearts and minds, Western countries spent and will keep spending (from your pocket) trillions of dollars to try, with no guarantee, to keep you safe? Who's "hearts and minds," are draining all the resources of all the Intelligence agencies of the Western world, that has to monitor those hearts and minds, especially their worship places, round the clock? 

Add to this the hundreds of millions of dollars Western governments dump (also from your pocket) on what they call (please don't laugh) the battle of hearts and minds.

A muslim that takes mohammad as a role model, and call him, "The most honorable of all prophets," can't have neither hearts nor minds. This is not an opinion; this is the doctrine of islam. Once a muslim discover the existence of a heart and mind, he is not a muslim any more, and islam would consider him a heretic deserving death for committing the unforgivable sin for not using the heart and mind of mohammad, the most famous mass murderer in history (it's all by the admission of their sources, nothing from me), and they're proud about it. That's the only heart and mind any muslim is allowed to use.

Do you know of any major world religion that has its places of worship, its spiritual leaders, and its "devout" followers under constant surveillance in every Western country, other than the, "Religion of peace?"

When President Bush and other Western officials give us the, "Islam religion of peace," salvo, they should finish the sentence, "Islam is a religion of peace, under constant surveillance." That explains why they never laughed when saying it, it kept me wondering for a while. Thank God for never saying that Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Confuciunism, and ... are religions of peace. They would've been sued, by the followers of these religions, for hate speech and slandering.

It's worth noting that the professors of the medical and engineering faculties that benefitted, and still benefitting greatly from the Copts mentioned above, are known to be the most hateful against Coptic students, and the most fundamentalists. It's not a coincidence that Zawahri is a doctor, and Ben Laden is an engineer.]   

Since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak came to power in 1981, the Coptic Church has sought to project an image of religious co-existence and has not turned to inflammatory discourse on sectarian violence. Yet the response to the recent bloodshed suggests that the church is about to change its style. This month the Coptic Holy Senate issued a relatively strongly worded statement calling on Mubarak to put an end to armed attacks against Copts and ensure their safety.

[We never got any reply from Mubarak, nor he ever uttered a word about the safety concern of 15 million, supposedly, Egyptian citizens. But he doesn't stop parading himself like a super model all over the Middle East and Europe (he hasn't been invited in the US since 2004, Bush can't stand him no more.), as the defender of the Palestinian rights, but he sees no problem for the Copts with no rights. As a side note, him and his family stole about 40 billion in the last 27 years, while his people stand in line and kill themselves for a loaf of bread. These are the thugs they call presidents and kings, defenders of the great religion of truth, so what you expect out of their people.]  

The church, which refrains from publicly criticizing the regime, has often distanced itself from the demands made by its followers overseas. This week violence broke out between Copts and Muslims over a rumor of the kidnapping of a Muslim woman and her son in Fayoum province, about 80 miles south of Cairo. One Muslim reportedly died of a heart attack and four Copts were injured in the clashes.

The tension comes at a crucial moment for the Coptic Orthodox Church as the frail Pope Shenouda III is away for medical treatment in the U.S. at the Cleveland Clinic.

— Noha El-Hennawy in Cairo

Photo: Copts demonstrating in the Netherlands. Credit: the Coptic website Coptreal

 

Next demonstration schedules

We welcome all who want to join us in our common fight against islamic terrorism 

Sidney Australia: Saturday, July 5, 2008. Rallying point at the Museum Station at 11 AM.

Ottawa Canada: Saturday, July 5, 2008 

Buses will be provided free from Montreal and Toronto, we will return in the afternoon, same day.

Rallying point for Montreal residents: Fairview Shopping Center (Sears)

6815 RTE Transcanadienne (ST- Jean & HWY 40), Pointe Claire, QC, H9R 5J1

The Coptic Association organizers for the Greater Toronto area will announce the rallying point as soon it is available.

For those joining us in Ottawa, we will be rallying front of the Parliament building from 12 to 2 PM, with several MP joining us. Then we will walk to the Egyptian Embassy, we will be front of the Embassy from 3 PM, and we’ll leave for the return trip from the Embassy site at 4 PM.

For more information, call:

Dr. Naguib Selim, head of the Canadian Coptic association, phone #  514 485 4550

Mr. Victor Shahid (For the Toronto and Mississauga area), phone # 416 937 5734

Dr. Nabih Abdel Malek (for the Ottawa area), phone #613 745 5851     

We will post the schedules for demonstrations in the US as soon it is available.

 

We are proud of all the people, who joined the demonstration in Paris, France (Copts and non Copts), and the organizers of the French Coptic Assossiation who made it a great success and provided us with these pictures.

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Also proud of the Dutch Coptic association, and all the people who took part in the demonstration in Holland and sent us those pictures

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Good job folks, God bless you.

 

Know thy Muslim

The persecution of Christians and the demolishing of Churches continue in the countries of the religion of peace

In the case of this Church, the islamic authorities claim that the Church officials refused to acquire a certificate of occupancy before commencing building.

The stupid question that any mentally retarded could ask is: why the Church officials would refuse to acquire this certificate?

This is the most classic conspiracy that all islamic governments use to demolish Churches, since they are the responsible authorities that refuse the deliverance of these certificates to Churches.

That's exactly what the Church officials said, "Officials of the church have for over ten years applied for the Certificate of the Occupancy, but were not granted by the state government."

It takes at least 25 years in Egypt for Christians to obtain this certificate, that's in case all the conditions are fulfilled, and the Church construction is approved, which is extremely rare.

Examples of the conditions to be fulfilled are:

1- That the new Church site shouldn't be in a range of 100 meters (63 yards) from a mosque. [But if the miracle happens, and the Church is built, right away muslims surround it with mosques to be a constant intimidation for the Christians, and to blast the sound of their loudspeakers when they celebrate the Mass 

2- The Church site shouldn't be visible from a passing train route, or a main trafficed road. For muslim passengers sensibilities, not to be offended by the site of the Church and the cross. 

3- The Church site shouldn't be in the vicinity of muslim's homes, apartments, or businesses.

This is why muslims, consider you unclean. And don’t get me wrong or deceive yourselves with thoughts like,” These muslims in these countries are really retarded.” I’m not talking about muslims in what you think is a remote LaLa Land of Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, or any remote Islamic country you can think of.

The muslims I’m talking about are the ones in your neighborhood, your city, your country. They’re the same, they pray exactly the same prayers to curse you and plead with allah to bring on you all what their devoutly religious imagination can think of, 17 times a day. Remember, they came from there. They drank from the same source, and brought with them the same “very” holy books.

And while they were there, before they came and became your neighbors, did they act differently? The answer to this question is very simple; were they praying the same prayers, going to the same mosques, reading and reciting from the same “very” holy books? Now you can ask this very simple question to every muslim, and you’ll see how easy it is to find out, and be your own judge.

The other complimentary question to ask them is this: since they came from their countries, and enjoyed their full freedom of religion, which in their case, it’s more accurate to say freedom of cursing and freedom to spread their venom, did they ever protested through their multiple fifth column organizations to demand that the Christian native minorities in their countries of origins enjoy the same rights they’re enjoying in the kafirs countries?   Another very easy question to ask.

It’s their brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers that are trying “devoutly,” to finish the job. For a Mohammad’s follower, a non muslim is a job that has to be finished, with special care for Jews and Christians.

Something else you should know, they hate the Christian minorities (there is practically no Jews left in muslims dominated countries) in their countries of origins because they consider them part of the Western culture, for sharing the same religion, regardless of the fact that these Christians are the original owners of the country. In other words, they hate them, terrorize them, kill them, and consider that leaving them alive is simply offensive because they identify them with you, and they see you in them, How can their book lie when it says that you are, “Unclean.”  

Nigeria: Why We Demolished Catholic Church - Kano Govt

Leadership (Abuja)

23 June, 2008

Mansur Sani Malam
Kano

Kano State government has explained that the structures of the Christ the King Catholic Church, were demolished by the Kano State Urban Planning Development Agency (KANUPDA) because the Church officials refused to acquire Certificate of Occupancy before commencing building.

Explaining this to news men during a press briefing, managing director of KANUPDA, Dayyabu Zubairu Gano, said the temporary structure of the church at Na'ibawa in Kumbotso local government was removed, after serving them a notice four months ago, advising them to prove its legitimacy or remove it within time.

He added that at a meeting of various stakeholders on March 5, 2008, involving the issue, part of the resolution was that KANUPDA must ensure the demolishing of the structure in accordance with the provision of the law.

Dayyabu Gano explained that the agency wrote a letter on March 27, 2008 calling the attention of the owners of the church, to recall the resolutions of the meeting and the previous notice in order to make arrangement to clear their structures, or else the authority according to him, will have no alternative than to take final action.

He stated that a seven day notice was also given to the church officials, before they sent a letter on the March 31, 2008, pleading on the issue at stake afterwhich the authority of KANUPDA advised them further as appropriate. He added that the removal exercise was not carried out earlier, due to the pleading made by the church officials.

The MD said adequate information and notice was already served to the Church that it is illegal for them to erect the structures, because there is no evidence of issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy to them.

A source from the church alleged that officials of the church have for over ten years applied for the Certificate of the Occupancy, but were not granted by the state government.

These are just few examples of the love and tolerance muslims in the West congest your ears with, whenever they open their mouth to spit in your face the lies and deceptions they were programed with since they were born. These examples are not only specific to Egypt, but that's the standard used by every islamic country with a native Christian minority.  

The legal foundation for the Egyptian state's control of church property is the Ottoman Hamayoni decree of 1856, which was amplified by the Interior Ministry in 1934. Notwithstanding changes of regime since the mid-19th century, the Hamayoni decree remains a valid part of Egypt's civil law. It was issued during the rule of the Ottoman Viceroy Said when Egypt was developing its civil law to provide a more modern complement to traditional Islamic law. It is based on the discriminatory tradition of the Khyber treaty and the regulations of Omar. The Hamayoni decree requires Christian congregations to submit petitions for any form of building, repair or renovation of church buildings to the head of state. Any such work depends on his approval. Great bureaucratic hurdles must be overcome to build a church or even to replace a pane of glass or repair a toilet. The church must satisfy the Ministry of Interior, on behalf of the President, that the building is not less than 100 meters from a mosque or is not in a predominately Muslim neighborhood, that local businesses and residents do not object and that there is no other place for local Christians to worship. The state uses these regulations as a weapon against the church. By means of the decree the state can and routinely does obstruct church life by refusing or delaying permission for the building and repair of churches. Militant Muslims have been known to set up makeshift mosques near the sites of planned churches or beside churches in need of repair, thereby giving the government a legal pretext for preventing construction or repair.

Permission from the President alone does not always pave the way for the erection of a new building or the repair of an existing one. Approval is also required from the local authorities and the State Security Bureau, which is empowered to judge whether work on a church building constitutes a threat to the security of the state. The State Security Bureau often works outside the law in obstructing the construction and repair of Christian churches.

The Islamic state grants fewer building permits to the Coptic Orthodox Church, which it views as a greater potential threat, than to other churches. Permission to build churches in new urban developments is normally refused, thus leaving Christians living in such areas far from a church. Successful applications typically take ten to thirty years before the necessary Presidential approval comes. In the decade between January 1981 and December 1990 the Coptic Orthodox Church received only ten permits to build new churches and 26 permits for repair work. Other Christian Churches received 44 building and repair permits during the same period. Many applications are rejected or remain unanswered. In the first half of 1991 the Coptic Orthodox Church received two permits after submitting six applications. One was for the building of an office, the other was for the repair of a toilet. Private mosques may be built and maintained without government permission.

Reported Cases:

Applications for the building of Coptic Orthodox Churches are still pending in the following locations:

1) Al-Tabaya district of Alexandria, application submitted in 1961.
2) Mamoura district of Alexandria, application submitted in 1967.
3) Ameria district of Alexandria, application submitted in 1971.
4) Al-Qosiya, application submitted in 1974.
5) Nasr near Sohag, application submitted in 1977.

Permission to repair the following Coptic Orthodox Churches has been denied:

1) St. Abadeer's, Asyout.
2) St. Peter's, Kina.
3) St. Bishoy's Abo-Teeg.
4) St. Hydra's Monastery, Aswan

The following Coptic Orthodox Churches have been closed by the government for failing to comply with building regulations:

1) St. George's, Mahomoudia near Dairut.
2) St. John's, Minya.
3) Former Greek Orthodox Church, Rass Al-Barr.
4) Church by Bishop's residence, Malawi.
5) The Coptic Orthodox Church, Khanka.
6) St. Michael's, Sohag.
7) St. George's, Awlad-Touq Sharq.
8) The Coptic Orthodox Church, Badr (demolished)

Jarja

Presidential Decree 273 of 1988 granted the St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church in the town of Jarja in Sohag Province permission to repair its fence. Despite this the security police have prevented the commencement of repair work.

Alzanqur

The Coptic Orthodox congregation in Alzanqur (Jaraja District, Sohag Province) was granted permission on the basis of Presidential Decree 51 of 1988 to build the Church of St. Mary the Virgin according to its architect's plans. Despite President Mubarak permission, the State Security Bureau has prevented commencement of the building. Having submitted all the legal documents, the local bishop wrote to the head of the State Security Bureau on April 7, 1990, asking for permission to start construction. This letter and other petitions from the congregation have remained unanswered.

Mayiet Bara

The decree issued by President Mubarak on April 21, 1991 permitting the repair of a church toilet in Mayiet Bara reads as follows:

"Considering the Constitution and Law no. 15 of 1927 which regulates the religious places, the appointment of the religious leaders and the questions related to the religions allowed by the State;

Considering Royal Decree no. 30, 1928 for the licensing of the establishment of the Church of the Coptic Orthodox denomination which is Mayiet in the Qusan District of Manufiya Province; It is decreed as follows:

Article One: The Coptic Orthodox Church is licensed to renew its toilet which belongs to the Church of Mayiet Bara of the Coptic Orthodox denomination of the Qusna District of Manufiya Province.

Article Two: This decree is to be published in the official daily newspaper and is to be effective from the date of its publication.

Issued at the President's Office on 6th Shawal 1411 which is April 21, 1991."                

Ibrahim Pasha and Manqateen

On Saturday, February 16, 1991 the Coptic Orthodox of Ibrahim Pasha and Manqateen gathered to consecrate a makeshift place of worship to serve the two small villages without the permission of the authorities. On the following day armed police arrived in 17 vehicles, entered the simple church during worship and brutally beat the priest and deacons, kicking them in the head and tearing their clothes. The police then systematically destroyed everything in the church, ripping up Bibles, and smashing icons. They also ransacked the annex and the living quarters of the priest. The police returned the next day and confiscated the following items: 22 doors, ten windows, 1 electric generator, 1 PA system, 2 wardrobes, 10 blankets, 4 wooden benches, and 5 gas cylinders.

The destroyed church was built after the 6,000 Coptic Orthodox worshippers of the two villages had waited 13 years for official permission to build their church. During this time they had nowhere nearby to meet for worship and Christian education. They had to travel long distances for a church wedding, baptism or burial service. None of their many applications for official permission to build a church were answered. Today the church and the living quarters of the priest stand completely destroyed. Shortly before the police attack the State Security Bureau called the Bishop of Minya, ordering him to close the new church on the grounds that Christian worship there was not only illegal, but an anti-state activity.

Al-Qasriya

The Anba Makar Coptic Orthodox Church in the village of Al-Qasriya in Sohag Province was built in 1950. At the end of 1983 one of the main wooden beams supporting the ceiling collapsed, rendering the church unsafe for use. The leaders of the congregation made arrangements for the immediate reinforcement of the ceiling. Officers of the State Security Bureau closed the church in January 1984, stating that the repair had not been authorized. After the congregation had tried repeatedly to gain authorization for the repair for over a year, the Bishop of Jaraja wrote to the Interior Minister in 1985, seeking both an explanation of the action of the security police and authorization for the reopening of the church. The Interior Minister has not yet responded to the bishop's letter and the Coptic Orthodox community of Al-Qasriya remain locked out of their church.

Bahjura

The Coptic Orthodox congregation in the village of Bahjura in the district of Naja'a Hamadi in Qena Province received Presidential Decree no. 1930 of 1974, granting permission for the building of a church. Two years later as construction was nearing its end the authorities intervened and prevented its completion. The faithful worshipped throughout the hot summers and bitterly cold winters in a church without doors and windows. From time to time the authorities vandalize parts of the surrounding yard. Repeated petitions to President Mubarak and other high ranking officials have had no positive effect.     

Al-Talihat

In 1967 the Egyptian authorities responded positively to an application submitted in 1958 by the Coptic Orthodox congregation of Al-Talihat, Jihina District, Sohag Province, for permission to build a new church. Construction work began immediately. When the walls reached the height of one and a half meters the police prevented further construction work. The leaders of the 3,000 Orthodox Christians of Al-Talihat have tried energetically, but without success to get permission for resuming construction.

Alexandria

About 3,000 Coptic Orthodox live in the Al-Tabaiya district of Alexandria and the surrounding region. In 1961 they applied for permission to build a church. Though permission was not forthcoming the congregation obtained a small house where it worshipped and met for other purposes. However the upper floor of the house was dangerously weak and in need for urgent repair. The congregation received permission for the repair work, but shortly after it commenced the police intervened to prevent the completion of the job. The police successfully obstructed the repair work until the building permit expired. The priest was then intimidated into signing an undertaking that the house would not be used for worship or any other kind of religious meeting.

The members of St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church in the Cleopatra District of Alexandria received presidential permission to renovate their church building in 1979. However, the local authorities continue to prevent the repairs from being carried out.

Asyout

Four hundred square meters of property belonging to the First Evangelical Church of Asyout was confiscated by Muslim fundamentalists, who built there a center for the propagation of Islam, a clinic and a Qur'an school. Fearing reprisals from the militant Muslims, the authorities failed to intervene on behalf of the church. When the pastor called on the authorities to stop the unlawful confiscation he was told to be thankful that the whole of the church had not been expropriated. However the church's application of 1974 for the construction of new toilet facilities was recently approved by the Interior Ministry.

Ayad

The Coptic Orthodox congregation in Ayad in the province of Giza received presidential permission in 1973 for the building of a church. Nevertheless, the local authorities have refused to give their assent to the construction.

Beni Muhammad

Nineteen Christian residents of Beni Muhammad in Asyout Province were arrested by agents of the State Security Bureau and imprisoned in 1990 for having allegedly tried to build a church. The detainees ranged in age from 13 to 75. Two months later they were released for want of evidence.

Cairo

In 1982 militant Muslims confiscated 1080 square meters of undeveloped land in the E'an Shammas District of Cairo belonging to two Christian brothers, Muhandees and Fouad Ramzy. On this land the large El Tawhid Mosque was constructed. The owners received no compensation for their loss.

Illegally storing copies of the koran is a crime in China

China forcing mosques to publicize Beijing games

Yes, illegally storing copies of the koran is a crime in China, and ultimately it will be in the West. It's not a dream, it's not a prophecy, it is just in the logic of events that we see unfolding, and I'll explain why in an analysis I'm working on to be posted very shortly.

As we said in a previous posting, here, China doesn't play games with Islam, that's why it is respected and feared by the Islamic world.

If this would've happened in a Western country, it would've been a world catastrophe by now. With the islamic blackmail machine roaring with outrage all over the world, burning embassies, calling for the death of America and the Western country where the destruction took place. Threatening the interests of the responsible country, boycotting its products. Slaughtering Christian minorities, rallying in the streets of every Western country, hostile declarations coming out of every islamic government with all their mosque minarets blasting the call of jihad against the sons of apes and pigs. Complaints, tons of condemnations and emergency meetings in what has become the islamic countries favorite club and mouth piece, the United Nations, and only God knows where it would end.

But with China, I doubt that any of this would happen. Muslims are the first to know who's blackmailable and who's not, and they know that China doesn't play games with islam.

The day will come when the West will have no other alternative but to treat islam same as China does, then it will be a different story, and none of that will happen either. Muslims know how to respect a big stick.

 

China destroys mosque for not backing Olympics

BEIJING (Reuters)

June 23, 2008

Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.

The mosque was in Kalpin county near Aksu city in Xinjiang's rugged southwest, the World Uyghur Congress said.

"China is forcing mosques in East Turkistan to publicize the Beijing Olympics to get the Uighur people to support the Games (but) this has been resisted by the Uighurs," World Uyghur Congress spokesman Dilxat Raxit said in an emailed statement.

Beijing says al-Qaeda is working with militants in Xinjiang to use terror to establish an independent state called East Turkistan.

Oil-rich Xinjiang is home to 8 million Turkic-speaking Uighurs, many of whom resent the growing economic and cultural influence of the Han Chinese.

Dilxat Raxit added that the mosque, which had been renovated in 1998, was accused of illegally renovating the structure, carrying out illegal religious activities and illegally storing copies of the Muslim holy book the Quran.

"All the Qurans in the mosque have been seized by the government and dozens of people detained," he said. "The detained Uighurs have been tortured."

The Olympic torch relay passed through Xinjiang last week under tight security, with all but carefully vetted residents banned from watching on the streets and tight controls over foreign media covering the event.

High terror alert shouldn't be considered as, "Special occasions," but religious business as usual, as long as the koran will be considered a religious book.

Britain raises UAE terror alert to "high"

DUBAI (Agencies)

Monday, 16 June 2008

Britain has warned its nationals traveling to the United Arab Emirates of a "high threat from terrorism", raising its alert for the Gulf Arab trade hub that is home to large community of British expatriates.

"We believe terrorists may be planning to carry out attacks in the UAE," the British foreign office website wrote.

"Attacks could be indiscriminate and could happen at any time, including in places frequented by expatriates and foreign travelers such as residential compounds, military, oil, transport and aviation interests."

The British Embassy in Dubai declined to specify what had prompted the change, saying that threat alerts were continually being reviewed based on a variety of information.

The previous level referred to a "general threat from terrorism".

"It has gone up a level to high... but most threat levels go up and down," Simon Goldsmith, spokesman for the British Embassy in Dubai, told Reuters.

The embassy said that over one million British visitors traveled to the UAE in 2006, and that more than 100,000 British nationals are resident there, the largest Western community in the country.

More than 80 percent of the population of 5.6 million in the fast-developing UAE are foreigners, according to figures for 2006 published in February this year.

 

US warns of terror attacks in the UAE and throughout the Middle East

WASHINGTON (AFP)

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

U.S. missions in the United Arab Emirates on Monday cautioned their citizens living there about the potential for attacks in the UAE and throughout the Middle East, as the summer season approaches.

Americans were reminded of "the general security situation" in the region before the "summer travel and holiday season, including plans for 4th of July celebrations around the UAE," according to a copy of an official U.S. message.

The embassy in Abu Dhabi and consulate in Dubai "wish to advise Americans that potential exists for terrorists to plan and carry out violent actions in the region, including the UAE," according to the message obtained by AFP.

"And for this reason Americans should maintain a high level of personal security awareness at all times, particularly in public places," according to a copy of the message sent to AFP by a State Department official.

The message follows a warning Monday from the British embassy in the UAE which said "there is a high threat from terrorism. We believe terrorists may be planning to carry out attacks in the UAE."

A State Department spokesman, Gonzalo Gallegos, told reporters in Washington earlier that the U.S. government was aware of the travel warning to British citizens in the UAE and was preparing to update its own advice.

"We're monitoring the situation in-country in order to keep American citizen travelers (informed) of the most current safety and security information," Gallegos said.

The latest advice updates a worldwide U.S. caution given on January 17 about the continuing threat of "terrorist actions and violence against Americans and interests throughout the world."

Europeans saw religious and national identities as a threat to democracy. Now, with Islam, their democracy is at stake.

A realistic diagnosys by Natan Sharansky in The WSJ, (thanks to Louis)  

June 16, 2008

Democracies Can't Compromise on Core Values

As the American president embarked on his farewell tour of Europe last week, Der Spiegel, echoing the sentiments of a number of leading newspapers on the Continent, pronounced "Europe happy to see the back of Bush." Virtually everyone seems to believe that George W. Bush's tenure has undermined trans-Atlantic ties.

There is also a palpable sense in Europe that America will move closer to Europe in the years ahead, especially if Barack Obama wins the presidential election.

But while Mr. Bush is widely seen by Europeans as a religious cowboy with a Manichean view on the world, Europe's growing rift with America predates the current occupant of the White House. When a French foreign minister, Hubert Védrine, declared that his country "cannot accept a politically unipolar world, nor a culturally uniform world, nor the unilateralism of a single hyper power," President Clinton was in the seventh year of his presidency and Mr. Bush was still governor of Texas.

The trans-Atlantic rift is not the function of one president, but the product of deep ideological forces that for generations have worked to shape the divergent views of Americans and Europeans. Foremost among these are different attitudes toward identity in general, and the relationship between identity and democracy in particular.

To Europeans, identity and democracy are locked in a zero-sum struggle. Strong identities, especially religious or national identities, are seen as a threat to democratic life. This is what Dominique Moisi, a special adviser at the French Institute of International Relations, meant when he said in 2006 that "the combination of religion and nationalism in America is frightening. We feel betrayed by God and by nationalism, which is why we are building the European Union as a barrier to religious warfare."

This attitude can be traced back to the French Revolution, when the forces fighting under a universal banner of "liberty, equality and fraternity" were pitted against the Church.

In contrast, the America to which pilgrims flocked in search of religious freedom, and whose revolution amounted to an assertion of national identity, has been able to reconcile identity and freedom in a way no country has been able to match. That acute observer, Alexis de Tocqueville, long ago noted the "intimate union of the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty" that was pervasive in America and made it so different than his native France.

The idea that strong identities are an inherent threat to democracy and peace became further entrenched in Europe in the wake of World War II. Exponents of what I call postidentity theories – postnationalism, postmodernism and multiculturalism – argued that only by shedding the particular identities that divide us could we build a peaceful world. Supranational institutions such as the EU, the International Court of Justice and the United Nations were supposed to help overcome the prejudices of the past and forge a harmonious world based on universal values and human rights.

While these ideas have penetrated academia and elite thinking in the U.S., they remain at odds with the views of most Americans, who see no inherent contradiction between maintaining strong identities and the demands of democratic life. On the contrary, the right to express one's identity is seen as fundamental. Exercising such a right is regarded as acting in the best American tradition.

The controversy over whether Muslims should be able to wear a veil in public schools underscores the profound difference in attitudes between America and Europe. In Europe, large majorities support a law banning the veil in public schools. In the U.S., students wear the veil in public schools or state colleges largely without controversy.

At the same time severe limits are placed on the harmless expression of identity in the public square, some European governments refuse to insist that Muslim minorities abide by basic democratic norms. They turn a blind eye toward underage marriage, genital mutilation and honor killings.

The reality is that Muslim identity has grown stronger, has become more fundamentalist, and is increasingly contemptuous of a vapid "European" identity that has little vitality. All this may help explain why studies consistently show that efforts to integrate Muslims into society are much less effective in Europe than in America, where identity is much stronger.

Regardless of who wins in November, the attitudes of Americans toward the role of identity in democratic life are unlikely to change much. Relative to Europe, Americans will surely remain deeply patriotic and much more committed to their faiths.

Europeans, meanwhile, may move closer to the Americans in their views. The recent shift to the right in Europe – from the victory of conservative leaders like Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Silvio Berlusconi to the surprise defeat of the leftist mayor of London, Ken Livingston – might partially reflect a belated awareness there that a unique heritage is under assault by a growing Muslim fundamentalism.

The logic of the struggle against this fundamentalist threat will inevitably demand the reassertion of the European national and religious identities that are now threatened.

Europeans are now saying goodbye to Mr. Bush, and hoping for the election of an American president who they believe shares their sophisticated postnational, postmodern and multicultural attitudes. But don't be surprised if, in the years ahead, European leaders, in order to protect freedom and democracy at home, start sounding more and more like the straight-shooting cowboy from abroad they now love to hate.

Mr. Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident, is chairman of the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He is the author, most recently, of "Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy" (PublicAffairs).

Would this be the Arabgate of Obama

From Memri (thanks to Louis who sent it)

"All The People In The Arab And Islamic World And In Africa Applauded This Man [Obama]... [And] May Have Even Been Involved In Legitimate Contribution Campaigns"

Mu'ammar Al-Qaddafi: "It has been proven that there is no democracy in [the U.S.]. Rather, it is a dictatorship no different than the dictatorships of Hitler, Napoleon, Mussolini, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, and the rest of the tyrants.
  
"In the days of crazy Reagan, the American president issued a presidential order to launch a war against Libya, for example, a presidential order to besiege Libya, a presidential order to boycott Libya, and so on. Is this a democracy or a dictatorship?
  
[...]
  
"There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama.
  
"All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency."
 
   
"Our African Kenyan Brother [Obama]... Made Statements [About Jerusalem] That Shocked All His Supporters In The Arab World, In Africa, And In The Islamic World"

"But we were taken by surprise when our African Kenyan brother [Obama], who is an American national, made statements that shocked all his supporters in the Arab world, in Africa, and in the Islamic world.
  
"We hope that this is merely an elections 'clearance sale,' as they say in Egypt – in other words, merely an elections lie. As you know, this is the farce of elections – a person lies and lies to people, just so that they will vote for him, and afterwards, when they say to him, 'You promised this and that,' he says: 'No, this was just elections propaganda.' This is the farce of democracy for you. He says: 'This was propaganda, and you thought I was being serious. I was fooling you to get your votes.'
  
"Allah willing, it will turn out that this was merely elections propaganda. Obama said he would turn Jerusalem into the eternal capital of the Israelis. This indicates that our brother Obama is ignorant of international politics, and is not familiar with the Middle East conflict." [...]
 
   
"We Thought He Would Say: 'If I Win, I Will Monitor The Dimona Nuclear Plant" Like Kennedy, For Whose Assassination Ben Gurion Gave Green Light

"We thought he would say: 'I have decided that if I win, I will monitor the Dimona nuclear plant, and the other WMDs in Israeli's possession.' We expected him to make such a decision. He undoubtedly had this in mind. When he talked about Iran and its nuclear program, he undoubtedly had Dimona in mind.
  
"But when he was thinking about Dimona, he undoubtedly had the fate of former president Kennedy on his mind as well. Kennedy decided to monitor the Dimona nuclear plant. He insisted on doing so, in order to determine whether or not it produces nuclear weapons. The Israelis refused, but he insisted.
  
"This crisis was resolved with the resignation of Ben-Gurion. He resigned so he would not have to agree to the monitoring of the Dimona plant, and he gave the green light for the killing of Kennedy.
  
"Kennedy was killed because he insisted on the monitoring of the Dimona plant. This image was undoubtedly on Obama's mind. He undoubtedly wanted to talk about this, but decided not to."[...]
 
   
"We Expected Him To Say: 'I Will Implement The One-State Solution'... This Is The 'Change' That The Peoples Applaud..."

"We expected him to say: 'If I win, I will implement the one-state solution – the "Isratine" which appears in Qaddafi's White Book.' This idea constitutes the final, deep-rooted, and historic solution. It is impossible to establish two midget-states in this area. What kind of country is only 15 km deep? The so-called Israel is only 15 km deep. What kind of a country is this?
  
"There are five million Palestinians there. We expected Obama to say: 'I've decided to return millions of Palestinian refugees to the land of Palestine, from which they were expelled in 1948 and 1967.' This is the 'change' that the peoples applaud, the change that the American people – and the black people in America – want.
  
"We expected him to say: 'I will strive for the independence and unity of the Kurdish nation. This nation must take its place under the sun in the Middle East.' The Kurdish nation is torn apart, tormented, and persecuted, and is colonized by everyone. He should have supported it, instead of supporting the collaborators, while sacrificing the future of the Kurdish nation. This is 'change.'" [...]
 
   
"The Black Man Suffers From An Inferiority Complex... Such A Feeling Would Make Him [Obama] Act Whiter Than the White, And Go To An Extreme In His Persecution And Degradation Of The Blacks"

"The thing we fear most is that the black man suffers from an inferiority complex. This is dangerous. If our brother Obama feels that because he is black he doesn't have the right to rule America, this would be a disaster, because such a feeling would make him act whiter than the white, and go to an extreme in his persecution and degradation of the blacks.
  
[...]
  
"We say to him: Brother, the whites and blacks in America are equal. They are all immigrants. America belongs neither to the whites nor to the blacks. America belongs to its original inhabitants, the Indians. Both the whites and the blacks immigrated to America, and so they are equal, and Obama has the right to hold his head high, and say: 'I am a partner in America. This is my land as much as it is yours. If it is not my land, it is not yours either. It is the land of the Indians. You are immigrants, and so are we.'"[...]

    
"We Are Still Hoping That This Black Man Will Take Pride In His African And Islamic Identity"

"We are still hoping that this black man will take pride in his African and Islamic identity, and in his faith, and that [he will know] that he has rights in America, and that he will change America from evil to good, and that America will establish relations that will serve it well with other peoples, especially the Arabs."

The other face of Mubarak, the supposedly Western ally in the war on terror

This is an admission from a liberal Muslim writer witnessing for the truth, of the terror campaign waged against the Copts of Egypt, the native peaceful people of the country, by none other than the Mubarak regime and his security apparatus.

This is the peace of Islam that native Christians are getting, not only in Egypt, but in all   countries that were taken over by muslims. If this wouldn't serve as an alarm for Western populations, then they deserve what muslims have in store for them.

It took less than 25 years for muslims to become the majority in what was the last Christian majority country in the Mideast till the 80's, Lebanon. Their mistake - the Lebanese - was to open their country for other muslim arabs. It cost them more than 100 thousand Christian killed and an exodus of the majority of Christians. If this also is not an eye opener for Western populations, then muslims will open them for you, and force you to see the reality, with the added cost and consequences.

From Memri, thanks to Louis and H.Meawad

Ahmad Al-Aswani, an Egyptian writer, writes extensively on political topics from a critical and reformist perspective. In the following essay, posted June 7, 2008 on the liberal website Aafaq.org,(1) he focuses on the escalating series of physical attacks on members of the Coptic minority in Egypt.
  
The following are excerpts from the article:
   
         
"What Is Happening to Our Coptic Brothers... Is No Longer a Matter of Sporadic Incidents"

"I hope that I have not exaggerated in using the word '[open] season' for what is happening in Egypt to our Coptic brothers, but it is the closest description to what is happening. It is no longer a matter of sporadic incidents, but an uninterrupted series of events.
  
"Today, you read of the incident in Zeitoun, and tomorrow of the one in Alexandria,(2) and after that of the one in Deir Abu-Fana in Minya,(3) and thus of the diverse incidents, ranging from killing without reason to armed robbery, kidnapping of monks, torching of houses and cars, and waylaying and kidnapping of girls.
  
"As usual, all then repudiate and condemn, accompanied by official and media denial of any sectarian or terrorist motive. And if that isn't appropriate, the standard excuse [is trotted out]: the criminal was mentally disturbed and did not mean to do what he did.
  
"This is what has happened in individual incidents... such as the Zeitoun incident a few days ago, or the Alexandria incident two years ago.(4) If we observe closely, we find that these criminals then disappear, and are not brought [to trial in] any court, and no one hears about them afterward."


"Mass Incidents... Follow a Friday Sermon Inciting [Worshipers] to Burn the Homes of the Village's Copts"

"[In] mass incidents, such as marches after Friday prayers – which follow a Friday sermon inciting [worshipers] to burn the homes of the villages Copts, on the pretext that these 'infidels' seek to turn one such home into a church that will pollute the pure village – the [allegations that sparked the incident] are later proven untrue. [This proof, however, comes] after houses, shops, and cars have been burned, [and] after police and government officials arrive to make sure that the burning is complete.
  
"Then the media, as usual, accuses rumormongers of being behind the regrettable events, saying that they must be agents of Israel or America.
  
"Of course, the usual Coptic notables deny any suspicion of sectarianism, and affirm national unity, and the sheikh and the priest embrace.
  
"The matter is concluded with no investigation and no trial for anyone – as if nothing had happened. [All then] wait for the opening of the next season, and for the recurrence of the same events, the same responses, and a promise that parliament's new unified law for houses of worship will solve all problems – in the knowledge that this law does not yet exist."
 
   
"Prominent Copts Voluntarily Deny Any Suspicion that Sectarianism Is Fueling Recent Events"

"[Thus] continues the cycle of sad events in Egypt, without end – and one saddening thing is that some prominent Copts voluntarily deny any suspicion that sectarianism is fueling recent events [even] before the truth becomes known. I do not know whether they are aware that their words both increase the suffering and will fail to end this series [of incidents].
  
"[Instead,] why don't they use their media presence to defend their people, the Copts, and to urge the enactment of laws to prohibit what is happening, and to purge the educational system and media of the explosive mines of sedition, discrimination, and incitement?"


"An Attempt to Terrorize the Copts... and Force Them... To Either Emigrate... or Convert"

"What is happening is an attempt to terrorize Egypt's Copts, and to force them either to emigrate from the homeland once and for all, or to convert to Islam to protect themselves and their families [from harm] and to protect their property from the confiscation mentioned by many Islamic publications.
  
"It causes me regret, and as an Egyptian it makes my heart bleed, to see this farce endlessly repeated, and to see the same prominent individuals say the same words – and [then to see] the matter forgotten a short time later.
  
"Frankly, I blame the Coptic leadership in Egypt, headed by His Eminence Pope [Shenouda III] himself, because it has reached the point where lives and property are taken with impunity, and clearly with the authorities' collusion – with no fear of effective response, and with the confidence of all that, as always, the matter will end with beard-kissing and forgetting.
  
"Although I fully believe that the majority of Egypt's Muslims side with their Coptic brothers and against these incidents, [I must point out that] in light of the incitement, and in light of the seditious clerics on the religious [television] channels, things have changed, with the suspect collusion of the government.
  
"Perhaps the most recent farce is the June 5 report in [the Egyptian government daily] Al-Ahram... accusing Copts residing abroad of being behind the Zeitoun incident, [and of] forming an armed Coptic organization to instigate civil strife in Egypt.
  
"Can you imagine such far-out nonsense? I implore you: For God's sake, oh Egypt!"

Endnotes:
(1) http://www.aafaq.org/masahas.aspx?id_mas=1905.
(2) On May 28, 2008, four Coptic Christians – a jeweler and three of his employees – were shot dead by masked men in their shop in the Zeitoun district of Cairo. The next day, two men armed with machine guns robbed a Coptic jeweler in Alexandria of 150,000 Egyptian pounds  (see http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/28/50596.html).
(3) On May 31, 2008, men armed with automatic weapons attacked the Abu-Fana monastery in the Minya governorate, about 210 km south of Cairo. Four monks were wounded, and another three were kidnapped, beaten, threatened with death for refusing to convert to Islam, and later released. Previously, in January 2008, armed men had attacked the monastery and destroyed eight cells inhabited by solitary monks, beating one, and also destroyed Bibles and religious objects (see http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E77B0CA4-4D9A-4DF8-8375-59694E2A6522.htm and http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/900/eg6.htm).
(4) On April 14, 2006, a man carried out a knife attack on worshippers in three different Coptic churches; one victim died of his wounds (see http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=22014 and http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/14/news/egypt.php).

See also our previous detailed report for the last attack on Coptic monks in their monastery, here.

As If he doesn't know what's happening to the Copts of Egypt, the Coptic Church authority made public an official statement addressed to Mubarak, to stop the killing of the Copts and the attacks on their properties and their holy places, after the last attack on the oldest monastery in the world and the monks living in it, detailed in a previous posting, here.  

Never has the Copts endured harsher persecution during the last hundred years, as what they endured, and still enduring under the rule of Mubarak, the one presenting himself as a Western ally in the war on terror, while his security police never ceased, and is the instigator of the worst terror campaign against the Copts during the last 25 years. 

This public statement was also meant for the Western world to take notice of Mubarak's government sponsored ethnic cleansing against the Copts, who represent, contrary to the government lie, 20 percent of the population. 

 

 Egypt Copts ask president for protection from Muslims

CAIRO (AFP) Monday, 16 June 2008

Egypt's Coptic church has used unusually strong language to call on President Hosni Mubarak to guarantee Christians' safety after a violent attack on a monastery in which four Copts were injured.

The Coptic Ecclesiastical Council called on Mubarak to prevent "more armed attacks on monks" and "insults to the cross," said a statement carried by Egypt's press on Sunday.

The move follows a land dispute involving a historic monastery which turned violent on May 31, leading to the death of a Muslim man who was reportedly attacking the monastery.

Four Copts, including two monks, were injured in the attack on the Abu Fana Monastery near the southern city of Minya.

Officials have sought to play down the incident, saying it was a personal rather than sectarian issue.

The clashes broke out when the monastery began building a wall around neighboring property after receiving final approval earlier this year.

Egypt's Copts -- the largest Christian community in the Middle East complain of systematic discrimination and harassment.

Tensions often run high between Egypt's Muslim and Christian communities in an increasingly religious society dominated by Sunni Muslims.

Depressing news from the Mideast that will undeniably result into more radicalization and terror 

Westerners may think that arab populations are having it so good, with the barrel of oil reaching $140. The reality is far from that. Never the picture has been so bleak, whether for their buying power, increasing unemployment, or increase of poverty level. One of the most critical issues is, rising the marriage age for girls, due to the skyrocketing apartment rents that are out of reach for many young couples. 

This is happening in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries where many foreign, companies, contractors, and workers are leaving for not being able to cope with the cost increases, for the rest of the arab countries, the situation is not only bleak, it's totally unpredictable.

This is not to be looked at as simply economics. This provides the best conditions for young desperate people to fall in the net of terrorist organizations waving their deceiving slogan, "Islam is the solution."

The problem is not that the arab worker is inherently deficient in comparison to the Korean, Chinese, Indian, or any other economically advanced third world country. The problem is islam. They're proud to produce prayers instead of bread (forget about the butter), and their allah is not paying. Now they're reduced to pray for a bread loaf, in long bread lines. I hope it will strengthen their faith.

The reluctance to work for an arab muslim have its root in islam, The prophet of islam said, "My earnings are under the shadow of my sword." and the Jeziah was meant to be the bread and butter for muslims, to live on extorting and robbing other people, which they try to justify it by all sorts of religious craps. Actually islam is also the religion of robbing, stealing and extortion. Mohammad meant for muslims to live as the parasites sucking the blood of the body they live on. He never told them, "My earning is under my shovel working the land."

That's the bare truth of their culture, if we can call this a culture, which they're trying desperately to promote by pouring millions of dollars in advertizing campaigns to make the ignorant Westerner swallow. But even if they spend billions instead of millions, it will always be no more than a bacteria culture, that turns any environment where it exist, to a rotten culture.

Islam is causing their economical catastrophe, and their economical catastrophe will cause more islam and terror that will not spare the West other unpredictable consequences. According to statistics, 70 percent of the arab populations are under the age of 35, the most easily radicalized and explosive segment of any population whenever it reaches a dead end. And when you think that their hate and death cult indoctrination starts from kindergarten, as soon they can talk and hear, then you'll realize what's the reality we'll be dealing with. That's where the arab world is right now.

Depressing News from the Middle East

MIDDLE EAST TIMES

 June 13, 2008

The Middle East is accustomed to depressing news. Usually it comes with the sounds of bombs and artillery or with the crack of an assassin's bullet. But the worst news of the week came in almost silently, in the bleak numbers of accountants' reports.

How could this be, in a region where the oil price is soaring unbelievably high, gushing floods of dollars (devalued, but still dollars) into government budgets and investment funds?

There are three answers to that. The first is what economists now call the Dutch disease, after what happened to the Netherlands in the 1960s and 1970s when the bonanza of North Sea gas not only spawned inflation and wage rises but began to shrink the underlying real economy. The Dutch disease, which is now stalking Russia, has not really hit the Arab oil-exporting economies because they had so little underlying real economy to start with.

The second answer is so much of the labor force is imported, from American engineers to British teachers, German doctors to Pakistani and Indian laborers. The education, training and motivation of the home-grown workforce have been a constant and depressing disappointment.

There are exceptions: some first-class Arab managers and strategic planners, financial entrepreneurs and dealmakers. But in terms of building a real economy that makes things that people want to buy, from cars to processed foods, microchips to pipelines, textiles to furniture, the Gulf States have a very long way to go.

The third answer is implicit in the figures that spell out this week's bad news. It comes in the form of a report from the Conference Group and the Gulf Investment Corporation and it says that since this decade started seven years ago productivity has fallen in the Gulf States.

That means that the average employee is creating less wealth now than he did in the year 2000, a period when United States productivity was growing at a steady 2.6 percent a year. Compounded, that means that the average American worker is producing almost 20 percent more now per dollar of pay and investment than he was in 2000. In China, where productivity has been growing at 7 percent to 20 percent a year, the average Chinese worker is producing more than twice as much, and India about 50 percent more.

In the Gulf States, by dismal contrast, productivity outside the oil sector has fallen by 0.2 percent.

"Currently, much of the oil and gas revenues are being spent on low-productivity construction and real estate, which give only a superficial impression of affluence," the report says.

Ironically, the countries that did best in the productivity ranks were those like Bahrain and Oman, with relatively less dependence on the energy sector. They live in the real world. If and when oil prices fall again, they will have something to fall back on. The Gulf States won't.

China's detaining thousands of muslims in the Xinjiang region

It is worth noting that no muslim country is complaining or accusing Chinese to be islamophobes. Not a word, no riots or burning Chines embassies, or the Chinese flag or boycotting the imports of their prayers rugs between other things. Not even the Organization of Islamic Conference bringing the matter to the United Nations. Nothing, on the contrary, complete silence, or rather keeping their mouth shut. The reason is simple, they know that China don't play games with islam.

This is what we always say, Islam is like a coil spring, you have to keep your foot on it, otherwise it'll jump in your face. No need to say more.

 

China clamps down on Muslims for Olympic relay

Kashgar, CHINA (AFP)

Sunday, 15 June 2008

China has tightened controls on Muslims in its remote west ahead of the Olympic torch's arrival next week to thwart any actions aimed at disrupting the relay, residents and exiles said.

The measures include detaining thousands in the Xinjiang region and forcing Muslim religious officials to undergo "political education" on "protecting" the Olympics, said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Germany-based World Uighur Congress.

With the Beijing Olympic torch expected in Xinjiang on its nationwide tour, authorities have also confiscated the passports of some Muslims, Uighurs told AFP.

"They are afraid people might travel abroad and join some sort of plot against the Olympics," said a college-educated Uighur woman in her twenties, whose passport was taken by police here earlier this year.

Beijing says it faces a separatist Muslim terror threat in Xinjiang, a vast region of deserts and stunning mountain ranges which is home to more than eight million Uighurs, a Central Asian people who have long chafed under Chinese control.

In recent months China has said several Xinjiang-based terror plots have been smashed, including some specifically aimed at the August 8-24 Olympics.

Uighurs dismiss such claims as political cover for what they call decades of repression and policies aimed at extinguishing their culture.

Beijing Olympic organizers recently said the sensitive Xinjiang torch leg would take place June 17-19, a week earlier than planned. But officials would not disclose up-to-date plans amid confusion surrounding sensitive relay legs following violent unrest in Tibet in March.

Activity in Kashgar, an oasis city on the ancient Silk Road, appeared normal at the weekend, with Muslim men quietly streaming in and out of the Id Kah mosque. There was no obvious police presence.

Several Uighurs told AFP they welcomed the torch and disputed suggestions anyone would try to disrupt it.

"The Olympic torch has never been to our city. We are very proud," said a Kashgar taxi driver named Yusup.

The crackdown triggered an attack with rocks and petrol bombs by Uighurs on a police station in the town of Sangong in late May, Raxit said previously.

Local police confirmed the attack when contacted by AFP, but refused further comment.

When the West learn from China, that's when Westerners will get their countries back.

The time when Islam will be peaceful is when Islam will be no more

When muslims are confronted with the violent history of islam's barbaric raids on the peaceful countries of the Mideast, Spain, and Europe, they're quick to point to Indonesia and ask, did islam spread by violence there?

Well, yes it did. How could it be possible that a cult based on violence, be spread peacefully? It's against the logic and doctrine of islam itself. As they say, "The most beautiful woman can't give more than what she has."

The most obvious example that islam can't be spread peacefully, is mohammad himself. He tried to spread islam peacefully for thirteen years between his own people, and only succeeded in attracting 72 people, that included his family and the family of his 6 years old, "bride," Eisha. That's when he realized that the sword and cutting heads is the way to go. 

It's always good to remind muslims that the man who raised mohammad, and was like a father to him, Abdel Mutalib, never believed muhammad, even at the last moments before his death, he refused muhammad's pleading with him to accept islam.

When muslims boast that no muslim leaves islam, remind them of the famous, "Apostasy war." When muhammad died, most of the muslims in Arabia rejected islam. Abu bakr, Eisha's father and first Caliph, waged against them ferocious wars to subjugate them by force and bring them back to islam in chains.

These are just elementary historical facts, from the islamic history books, to give the Western readers basic answers to muslims deceptive questions, or claims.       

This article also exposes the hidden reality, only for those who don't know, of the support by the islamic governments and their political parties for the muslim terrorists, which are called, "Radicals," in the West. And we showed that clearly in our previous posting exposing the ethnic cleansing of the Copts of Egypt, and the silent holocaust of all Christians in every muslims dominated country. 

 

Clash between fundamentalism and modernism

Opinion News - Saturday, June 14, 2008

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta

"Awas, ada orang Islam!" (Watch out, Muslims are coming!) is now a joke among activists after the brutal attack by members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) on participants of a peaceful rally organized by the National Alliance for the Freedom of Faith and Religion (AKKBB).

Some probably view the joke as blasphemy against the religion of the Prophet Muhammad but others might see a lesson behind it.

Traditional ulemas would quickly deny that Islam teaches violence, but progressive scholars directly condemn the attack and would admit the brutality has its roots in the religion's teachings.

It's probably not exaggerating to say that Sunday's rallies around the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta were representative of a continuing battle between fundamentalists and supporters of civil society.

The FPI claimed their attack was provoked by newspaper advertisements by the AKKBB which, among other things, supported Ahmadiyah, a sect considered heretical by the Indonesian Ulema Council.

A national conservative newspaper (thank God, it's only one) even wrote, "Ahmadiyah is the problem", and blamed the government for not banning the religious sect.

The FPI, who joined another rally organizing a sharia-supporting group and protesting the fuel prices hike in front of the Presidential Palace, decided that beating infidels who commemorate the secular state ideology of Pancasila was more important.

In a soccer game, the FPI is probably similar to Zinedine Zidane, the French player who headbutted Italian defender Marco Materazzi for verbally offending him in the 2006 World Cup.

Religious violence is actually not new in Indonesia despite the claim that Islam arrived here in peace, brought by Indian Gujarat traders and propagated by preachers known as Wali Songo.

A newly reprinted book with the subtitle, Teror Agama Islam Mazhab Hambali Di Tanah Batak (Islam's Hambali School of Terror in Batak Land), by Mangaradja Onggang Parlindungan, described how puritans forced their beliefs and killed the locals in the 1800s.

Fundamentalism here has its roots in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, says Muslim scholar Azyumardi Azra in his book, The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia.

The current radical organizations are also led by ulemas (they called themselves habib) who have relations -- cultural and probably financial -- to the Middle East.

It's true the FPI is small -- and maybe frightful -- but some may view the fundamentalist group is part of a larger group, including political parties which are still hiding their eternal dream to change the country into an Islamic state.

Supporters of the AKKBB, many of them Muslims, view these groups as a threat to a pluralistic Indonesia, the idea of which has begun to dim in the hearts of its citizens, including its leaders.

Similar reasons could be used to understand why the police are also afraid to take actions against radicals who recently destroyed mosques and properties of Ahmadiyah members.

But certain officials might still think radical groups can be used to lessen their burden to maintain security.

We still remember the civilian militia groups (pamswakarsa) that were actually established to fight pro-reform activists in 1998. A military commander and a police chief reportedly helped establish the groups.

Like Soeharto who tried to attract Muslims due to the weakening support from the military near the end of his power, certain elements in the government might seek support from the FPI and other fundamentalist groups to maintain their power even while sacrificing the country's unity.

These power-greedy opportunists do not care about any ideology as long as they can be elected in the general elections next year.

They visited and showed sympathy to a radical leader, whose followers tortured AKKBB activists at the rally.

But with the support of diverse elements of civil society, including mass media, the incident could be used to strengthen our commitment to democracy, a political system which does not tolerate violence.

Let's make the Monas tragedy a stepping stone toward a more democratic country that protects diversity in term of cultures, and faiths, including differences within a religion.

If we fail to learn from the tragedy, we will witness more violence which could lead to the breakup of the country. We would see uniformity, instead of diversity.

If we ignored the incident, we will watch more and more goateed people in Pakistani attire carry sticks and beat others who considered heretical.

And the joke, Awas, ada orang Islam, is no longer a joke. The joke teller would probably be considered defaming his religion.

The writer is a journalist at The Jakarta Post. He can be reached at  junaidi@thejakartapost.com  

This is one of the greatest news: the genius minds that created the greatest technological and scientific revolution, will never stop to amaze us.  

It looks like Rescue is on the way. The day the water-for-fuel technology is fully successful and commercialized should be celebrated as another Independence Day beside July 4th. 
 
I wonder how the Arabs are celebrating this. It's definitely bad for their global terror financing business.
 
 
Water-fuel car unveiled in Japan 

Reuters, Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri reports. Thanks for H.Meawad for sending it.

 

Jun. 13 - Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water.

The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car's tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it.

SOUNDBITE: Kiyoshi Hirasawa, CEO, Genepax.

Look it yourself and send it to your Arab friends to share the good news

http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561

Their hands are full of blood, no people escaped bloodshed wherever Muslims existed

Anyone knowledgeable with islamic history, knows that the Jewish Holocaust didn't start in Germany by Hitler, but by Mohammad, 1400 years ago, to steal their property, abduct their women for sex slavery, and sell their children as slaves. The result was the extermination of the substantial and prosperous Jewish communities in Arabia.  

Rise of Radical Islam Predates WWII

By CLAUDE SALHANI (Editor, Middle East Times)

June 10, 2008

The rise of radical Islam predates Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terror franchise, the Taliban, the maverick Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or even the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed, modern-day political fanaticism within Islam and the misuse of the pulpit to propagate hatred of other religions, particularly Judaism, can easily be traced back to the early 1920s, in British-mandated Palestine – just a few years before the establishment of the Brotherhood in Egypt.

In a just-released book titled, "Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam," Middle East scholars David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann, describe the harrowing account of Haj Amin al-Husseini, a radical and virulent Palestinian imam, whom the British appointed grand mufti of Jerusalem – the highest Muslim religious authority in the land and which made him one of the most eminent leaders in the Middle East at that time.

"An appointment the British would live to regret, seeing it was not long before he turned on them, too," the authors write.

Husseini wielded a lot of power and influence back in the 1920s and was instrumental in negotiating a pact between Islamic radicals and German Nazi officials. According to the two authors of "Icon of Evil" the mufti of Jerusalem was a longtime admirer of National Socialism and a personal friend of Heinrich Himmler as well as of Adolf Eichmann – two of Adolf Hitler's closest collaborators.

As such, Husseini championed in favor of the final solution – the extermination of all Jews. The grand mufti of Jerusalem encouraged Muslims to join the Waffen SS, a unit that was responsible for the slaughter of 90 percent of Bosnia's Jews.

The authors describe Husseini as charismatic and passionate, demonstrably successful in his recruitment efforts.

"In his sermon at Sarajevo's largest mosque, he brought his audience to tears. To further the recruitment efforts, he wrote a book titled, "Islam and the Jews," which was distributed to Bosnian Muslim SS units during the war, as part of his efforts to incite the murder of Bosnian Jews.

To Himmler's delight, Husseini was eminently successful in these efforts: with his encouragement and incitement, the Bosnian Muslim Waffen-SS company that he recruited, the notorious "Handschar troops," slaughtered 90 percent – 12,600 – of Bosnia's 14,000 Jews.

Early on Husseini incited anti-British riots and supported raids against Jewish settlements. His anti-British and anti-Jewish rhetoric led in fact to the very first intifada in Palestine, as Husseini organized and instigated revolts against Jews living in Jerusalem in 1920, 1929 and 1936. Those eventually led to the Great Arab Revolt of 1937.

With the collapse of the Third Reich Husseini was forced to escape to Egypt and from there to Germany where Hitler, perhaps because of the Mufti's blonde hair and blue eyes, named him "honorary Aryan."

At the end of World War II the maverick mufti managed to escape leaving behind charges of war crimes, as he made his way to Egypt. It was in Egypt, according to the two authors, that Husseini turned to a new generation of Palestinian revolutionaries. Among the younger crop of revolutionaries was a young man, a cousin of the mufti, named Yasser Arafat.

Sixty years after the Holocaust, the legacy left behind by the former mufti of Jerusalem still lives on. Where he left off, others have taken the relay. In the 1920s it was Haj Amin al-Husseini who was ranked at the forefront of anti-Semitism. Today the baton of hate has been relayed to others.

To his supporters, write Dalin and Rothmann, Husseini was a hero of epic proportion: "He was the George Washington of the radical Islamic world. Much like Ataturk in Turkey and Nehru in India, the mufti had won great acclaim in his early years as a charismatic national leader who many foreign leaders believed would lead his people into statehood."

However, a very different, and according to the authors, more accurate view of Husseini was put forward by Edgar Ansel Mowrer, a Pulitzer prize-winning foreign correspondent and nationally syndicated columnist: "as a murderer, this man ranks with the great killers of history."

Of all the harm Husseini may have caused to the Jews in Palestine, in Bosnia and elsewhere, it was perhaps his statement of wanting "to throw the Jews into the sea" that cost him and the Palestinian cause the greatest damage. As the French saying goes, "plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose."

Bangladesh: A moderate voice in Islam is in danger

Islamic governments invest substantially in public relation campaigns in the West to bleach islam and convince us of their efforts to combat radical islam. But they're eliminating systematically any moderate muslim voices for daring to criticize the spreading radicalization of islam in every muslims dominated country. This is the proof that moderate muslims, when they exist, won't save us from the real islam which is promoted and supported by all means by, none other, than the islamic governments themselves.   

 

Amitabh Tripathi, from Weekly Blitz

Yesterday I received an email from my friend in Bangladesh named Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. He has been known to western world in last few years but still unfamiliar with Indian subcontinent, particularly in India. I first came to know about him in January this year when correspondence with one American Jew and human right activist and now my good friend Dr. Richard L Benkin started in January 2008. Not several people are aware of the strong bond of relation between Shoaib Choudhury and Dr Richard Benkin but both loves to be call each other brother.

Since January 2008, I started taking some interest in this issue and tried to go in the detail of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. It is not much of importance who is Shoaib Choudhury but thing of paramount importance is his fight against Islamism and radical Islam. He is a man with courage who is paying price for opposing radical Islam and exposing the threat of Islamist terrorism to Muslim world as well as the whole world.

On 11th of June I received his email that appellate division has dismissed his special leave petition it means he has to face the trial of treason charge which according to him and others who know Shoaib Choudhury well are false as an instrument to crush the dissent voice among Islamic world. Shoaib Choudhury is also an editor of a weekly newspaper published from Dhaka www.weeklyblitz.net. He is the first Muslim in history of Bangladesh who openly advocated for the diplomatic relationship between Dhaka and Tel Aviv and opposed Islamist terrorism exposing nexus between radical Islamist political parties and terrorist groups Al-Qaida and HUJI. His advocacy for Israel put him before danger and he was branded as an agent of Israel as Dr Richard Benkin his link between Israel and Bangladesh. He has been tortured by government agencies of Bangladesh on various occasions and two years back he was able to come out of jail only because of efforts of Dr Richard Benkin and some congress men in America. But sword is still hanging on his head which was visible when notorious armed force of Bangladesh RAB abducted him on gun point on March 18 2008 and insulted him in abusive language. It was again efforts of Dr Richard Benkin and some congress men in American congress which insured his safe release but his police protection has also been withdrawn in March. Government of Bangladesh has charged him with treason and sedition and if those charges proved he would be given death penalty. On 11th June when I received email form Salah Uddin I got my eyes wet imaging the horrific anti climax of his struggle. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is not fighting for himself only his fight belong to all of us who are worried for the safe and free world as well as safe future for our next generation.

We have bitter experience of our neighbor countries with lack of democracy and respect for dissent voice. We have Pakistan and now Bangladesh which have fallen in the hands of Islamist forces and radical Islamist political parties in the grab of pseudo democracy not only protecting these forces but also nourishing them. In this critical phase if one moderate voice within Islamism has emerged we should protect and preserve it. Salah Uddin is a victim of Islamism as we have earlier Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin, Ayaan Hirshi Ali, Wafa Sultan, and Ali Sina in this category. Salah Uddin is a man who is ray of hope in this fight against Islamist terrorism and world can not afford to loose these kinds of warriors who are challenging the hegemony of Islamism within Islam.

From last four issues of his weekly magazine weeklyblitz.net he is writing a series of articles on Islamist terrorism with wide and deep information's of base of Al-Qaida and other terrorist networks in several parts of the world. For last few years Islamist terrorism has taken a new shift and south Asia has emerged as new hub of terrorism with Pakistan and Bangladesh as new gravity centre. Since 911 every major terrorist incident which happened across the world whether it is Europe or other parts of the world has role of Pakistan based terrorist groups as well as Bangladesh. Terrorism has grown to such proportion as it has gone out of hand and new strategy needed to tackle it properly. This new strategy is based on alliance against terrorism. This alliance could become reality once all terror affected civilizations and moderate voice among Islamic world come close together. In this new era of information it has become very easy to search our allies and be in touch with them. Dr Richard Benkin and Salah Uddin are discovery of this new technology for me. Need of the hour is to rally behind Salah Uddin in his critical phase to boost his morale. Salah Uddin is not fighting only for his survival his success or defeat is going to decide our fate also as whether we would be able to preserve a moderate voice among Islam and pave the way for democratization of Islamic society in south Asia or not. We can defend him by our will power and academic efforts also. We should flood the embassy of Bangladesh in our country with petitions registering protest against immoral and autocratic stand of that country with predetermined trial of an innocent fighter against Islamism only to appease Islamist lobby.

What a paradox with South Asia on the one hand a terrorist who was responsible for attack on Indian parliament and who been executed to death penalty from lower court to Supreme court of India is pleading for clemency and due to Muslim appeasement Indian Government headed by Congress and Left are trying hard to delay the execution of Mohammad Afzal and on the other hand government of Bangladesh is trying hard to execute a moderate voice in Islam to appease Islamists in their own country. This contrast with similarity reflects the moral bankruptcy of South Asian countries and their submission to Islamist terrorism and Muslim appeasement.

Amitabh Tripathi is the editor of Daily Lokmanch - India

Exclusive detailed report from Sons of Apes and Pigs

The whole truth about the butchery and desolation in the oldest Monastery in the world, Deir Abu Fana, in Egypt

The details of the Egyptian government conspiracy, on all levels, in their continuous efforts of oppression and ethnic cleansing of Christian Copts and Christianity in Egypt.

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Mubarak turned Egypt to a major islamic terrorists breeding country, starting by his security police, to please and cash from his Saudi masters and extort the West.

The ethnic cleansing of Christians in Egypt and in every muslims dominated country is the unmistakable sign of a coming Islamic upheaval in the West.

The diabolical double game of deception played by the Islamic world and performed,  according to mohammad’s famous doctrine, “ War is deception,” by the king of Saudi Arabia and Ali Gomaa, the Mufti of Egypt to anesthetize the Western world with peaceful words of interfaith dialogue, while pursuing the “cast in stone” dictum, confirmed twice in the Koran 2:193 and 8:39, “And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and all religion be to Allah (the whole world converted to islam.)

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The dissemination of disinformation and lies by the major Western press agencies is a flagrant complicity with the Islamic world, that caused already in the Western world the slaughtering of thousands, destructions, and still misleading the Western public which will lead to more slaughtering and desolation, and ultimately to a conflagration with unpredictable consequences. 

The first hand account of the Abu Fana Monastery events

Since last Saturday, at 5 pm Egypt local time, we at –  Coptic News Organization - were in direct, nonstop contact over the phone with the monks in Abu Fana Monastery, 190 miles south of Cairo, monitoring the events, minutes after the indescribable barbaric  criminal attack by more than 60  muslims, round the clock, nonstop. We were over the phone, hearing the massive automatic weapons gun fire that you can have a glimpse of it in the video clip, which none of the so called major news agencies did.

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The thugs, the followers of the butcher of nations, the laughing killer (this is one of muhammad’s famous name) attacked the peaceful, harmless, and unarmed monks in their desert Monastery of Abu Fana that existed 300 years before the curse of islam reached Egypt, and again spread their butchery and desolation for the second time this year. We reported the last attack in January 13, 2008, and a similar incident took place in Minya in October, resulting in 20 people receiving injuries. In total, this is the eighteenth attack in the last four years by the same neighboring muslim gang lead by a well known ex-police informer, and not one of these muslim thugs were ever arrested or prosecuted.

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John 16:2:
“A time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.”        

Matthew 24

 "And many false prophets will appear and deceive many people."

Matthew 7:15
[ A Tree and Its Fruit ] "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

Results of the attack: 

- One church was set on fire; another one was destroyed to the ground, Bibles, crosses, Icons, holy utensils of the Altars were desecrated, spit at, thrown to the ground, stepped and urinated on.

- Four of the monks were shot and wounded. One was beaten with iron bars.

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(Father Bakhom ,Father Saweris , Father Veni , Father Micheal , And a fifth monk )

- Three monks and a Christian that was visiting the Monastery (Father Maximous, Father Yoanas, Father Andrawes, and the brother of Father Mina who was visiting the monastery at the time of the attack) were kidnapped. The three monks were freed from the hands of the muslim attackers and brought to the monastery the next day by the police, after thousands of angry Copts gathered at the diocese of El Minya, being aware of the extreme gravity of the kidnapping of symbols of the church, and the catastrophe it could cause in Egypt, and internationally due to the immediate reactions, and monitoring from all the Coptic organizations in the Western world. The condition of the three monks was extremely critical, they were barely alive, not able to walk or stand on their feet after they suffered indescribable torture for refusing to say the shahada ( Islamic profession of faith) and to spit on the cross. Every time they refused to recite the shahada they were stoned and even muslim women were spitting on them, putting sands in their eyes, ears, and mouth. They were lynched, lashed with electric cables, buried to their waist and stoned again, blind folded and attached to palm trees and beaten with wooden bats that crushed their back, arms, and leg bones. Their ears were cut; they were hit on their sexual organs. Islam and sex are inseparable (that’s one of muslims favorite treatment for kafirs), to refresh your memory, read about the Christian missionaries in Turkey, here.

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Nothing unusual here, it's perfectly in line with what they're told to do, according to the koran, 8:12, " I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips off them."   

The kidnapped Christian visitor, brother of one of the fathers of the Monastery, is still not accounted for.  According to the three other monks kidnapped with him, he was last seen by them being tortured to force him to recite the bloody Islamic shahada. The fact that no words or answers from the security police about his whereabouts, and the fact he was not brought back with the other three monks make us strongly believe that he was killed.

   

The question that all the Copts, whether in Egypt or across the world, are asking: If the police succeeded in getting back the three kidnapped monks, why they didn’t arrest the kidnapers and the attackers, and why the disappearance of the fourth kidnapped person is still unsolved?

- Several workers that were performing various jobs at the monastery during the attack were also wounded.

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- All the Monastery’s farms, including orange, citrus, olives, and mushrooms farms were destroyed and all farm buildings set on fire. These monks succeeded in the last ten years, with their knowhow, to set the standards for modern farming, and make the desert bloom in the land belonging to the Monastery, using the latest techniques to obtain results that could’ve been a model for all the desert land of Egypt, that represent more than 90% of a country where people are dying for a loaf of bread, and importing 75% of its food. But this is not how muslims think. Their prophet didn’t tell them to labor the land or to emulate other people success, but to steal it, same as mohammad exterminated the Jewish and Christian populations of Arabia to steal their lands and their properties. And what they can’t steal, they destroyed. That’s why their ultimate aim is the destruction of Israel for committing the biggest sin in the eyes of muslims, succeeding.

For muslims, this is called business as usual in our language. In their language it’s called religion, cast in their hateful, but “very holy” Koran by their thug prophet alter ego, allah himself.  In case you’re just getting acquainted with the religion of the prophet of thugs, and not to be accused of making this up, read it for yourself, Koran 33:27, “And He made you heirs of their lands, their houses, and their goods, and of a land which ye had not frequented (Before). And Allah has power over all things.”

- Chicken farm, fish farm, Honey bees, were set on fire and destroyed. They dynamited the fish farm in a way that the fish were sprayed on the surrounding land. No people on earth can compete with the followers of the prophet of doom in their hate capacity for what is good, and their love capacity for evil.

- The water station and irrigation lines were destroyed.

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- Electric power generators were stolen, and power lines destroyed.

- Agricultural machinery and equipments were stolen or burned and destroyed (another mohammad’s islamic legacy).

- Construction materials and equipments were looted.

- Cell phones, Cameras, computers, money, and farms produce were looted.

 - Eight monks living cells and living quarters for visitors that come to the monastery for worshipping, and monastic life seekers that were not destroyed in the previous attacks were all burned and destroyed.

The police, located 4 miles away, was called as soon the attack started at 5 pm. They arrived at 9 pm despite hearing the gun fire sounds, same as us, over the phone, their perfect knowledge of the gravity of the situation, the history of all the destructive previous attacks, and knowing, " their friends, and associates," that are committing the attacks.

After the arrival of the security police at 9 pm, the attackers continued their shooting and destruction till 10 pm, while the security officers questioning and interrogating the monks.

No attempt by the police, neither in this attack or the previous ones, to arrest any of the attackers, whom they perfectly know, or even to launch any forensic examination, or report the attack to the district attorney. Instead, the police asked the monks to call and ask the Christian contractor responsible for building the wall around the monastery to come from his house, located 18 miles away. At his arrival, he was taken to the police station for questioning after assuring the monks that it’s only a matter of procedure that won’t take more than an hour. The next day, the contractor, that was 18 miles away from the monastery during the attack, was officially declared arrested and accused of killing one of the muslim attackers.

This has been the famous no brainer trick, and pattern used by the Egyptian authorities, for every attack on the Copts, during the last thirty years, to arrest Christian scapegoats and accuse them falsely with various crimes according to the situation, and then blackmail the Christian authorities of the church to drop the charges and the case against the muslim attackers, in exchange of the release of the Christian “scapegoats,” and a declaration that both sides were equally responsible.

Let’s assume that one of the attackers that shot and wounded four monks got killed from someone at the monastery, wouldn’t that be considered by all the laws of the world to be a legitimate self defense? When you’ll see the power of the gun fire attack in the video clip, you’ll be the judge to answer that question. 

The refusal of the district attorney to come to scene of the attack, the monastery, or to launch an investigation of the events.

- Through a phone conversation With Father Mina, one of the monks at the monastery, he Stated, “the police was so complacent, and several officers were just watching and laughing.”

 Neither the police, neither the justice department represented by the public district attorney produced any details about the alleged, “killed” muslim, or any forensic or medical examiner autopsy report.

El Menya governor, police general Diaa Eddin Mohamed Ahmed Khalil announced on all television channels, with a very straight face without blinking and with no apparent sense of shame, that, “both groups, muslims and Christian monks exchanged fire.” Without giving any forensic proof, except that one of the muslims got “killed.” He just forgot to mention that the only weapons the monks and priests used, all along the Coptic church 2000 years of history, is the cross, and their prayers.

In another television interview, he declared again that the monks opened fire on the attackers, and a muslim got killed. Adding, “this is just a skirmish between two neighbors about the right of ownership of a piece of land that has nothing to do with religion.”

Questions: Since the governor is aware of the existence of fire weapons in the monastery, where those weapons are, and how come the authorities allow monasteries to have fire weapons?  Doesn’t that simply means that the governor is not doing his job, and he’s not qualified for his position. But this also a coded message to justify attacks on Christian monastery and churches, since his declaration implied that monasteries are armed, and according to the shariaa law,  Christians are denied to carry, or to own arms. This is an extremely dangerous announcement that means monks and priests are armed and represent a danger to the country that should be fought and attacked. So any attack on a Church or a monastery can't be viewed as an attack on unarmed innocent people. 

The governor and the police authorities announced that, only, “one” muslim was a victim, from more than sixty muslim attackers, that should mean that all the monks were aiming at the same person all the time. What a coincidence?

The honorable governor, was making these statement as if he was the governor of Kabul or Kandahar in Afghanistan, and these are just normal events, or as he put it, “it’s just a skirmish between two good neighbors.”  Putting equally on the same scale a gang of terrorist killers and robbers, and peaceful loving monks that deserted the world for a life of prayers, worship and productive work to benefit the country.

 Saying that this, “skirmish,” have nothing to do with religion, is an indication from the governor that justice based on truth is not an option for the Copts in this case, as it was never an option for them since the barbarian hordes of mohammad brought their curse to Egypt 1400 years ago.  His declaration is meant to be the conclusion of the case, based on his own falsification of the facts.

The stupid question here is: when muslims have disagreements between themselves about a piece of land, do they attack, and shoot to kill each other with automatic weapons, kidnap, stone, lynch, lash, and crush each other’s hands and legs?

And assuming it is a piece of land disagreement between muslims and Christians, which is not the case,  is this is the governor, and the Egyptian government accepted standard to resolve that disagreement, by burning churches, kidnapping monks, forcing them to spit on the cross, convert to islam, cutting their ears, crushing their hands and feet, bringing women to fill their eyes, ears and mouth with sands, plus all what you’ll see in the video clip?

Let’s reverse the roles, and assume that the Copts attacked muslims over a dispute for a piece of land, and burned their mosques, destroyed their properties, spat on the Koran, cursed mohammad, kidnapped and tortured their imams to force them to convert to Christianity, shot and critically wounded four other imams, and caused what you will see in the video clip, would the honorable governor, the Egyptian authorities, and the media say that, “ this is just a skirmish between two neighbors that have nothing to do with religion?”

I guess you know the answer. For just a cartoon on a piece of paper, or few words on islam from the Pope of Rome in the context of an academic speech, they put the world on fire. They massacred Christians across the world, burned churches, bombed embassies with the latest one just few days ago, the Danish embassy in Pakistan with all the casualties and innocent victims blown to pieces. They terrorized, and still terrorizing the world with no end in sight. All this just for a cartoon on a piece of paper, how much more they would do if what they did to the monastery and the monks were applied on them by Christians, and by the Copts of Egypt? It’s no brainer, I wouldn’t even try to guess the number of Copts slaughtered or the number of churches put on fire. And it wouldn’t be only limited to Egypt, Christians would be massacred and churches would be put on fire in every Islamic dominated country.  They are already doing it voluntarily without any provocation. So imagine their delight to have this hoped for excuse to indulge and excel with the most religious zeal in applying what they worshipped and prayed for from birth, to kill, destroy, and spread desolation and more oceans of blood, all this and more while praising allah for giving them the opportunity to fulfill his curses on these cross worshippers. This was, and still is their major contribution to the world since 1400 years ago.

One of the muslims’ slogan that became famously known is, “first the Saturday people, and then the Sunday people.” It is clear that they are simply proceeding according to plan. They effectively cleansed the Saturday people from every muslims dominated country, and are now focused to finish up, what they started 1400 years ago, the Sunday people, to guarantee their place in their allah’s killers’ paradise.           

Another stupid question: why the Egyptian police didn’t produce, and expose to the world the weapons used by the “Jihadist” monks?  But again, what’s the use of asking stupid questions to the expert Egyptian police?

And what about the weapons of the muslim attakers? But that’s a very naïve questions.

Two fire trucks arrived, two hours after the police arrival, and after the fire consumed all what was meant to be burned.

No ambulance for the injured monks and they were taken to the nearest government hospital (Mallawi hospital) in a truck used for animal transportation. In the hospital, doctors refused to treat them, to abstain from issuing reports confirming the cause of the wounds. Which will be considered aiding the cause of the kafirs against muslims. We’re talking here about the noble medical profession and doctors that swore to uphold the Hippocrate’s Oath, but this is now the Egypt that produced the most famous doctor in the world that also recited the same oath, Dr. Al Zawahri.

As a side note, we have live recorded confessions from Egyptian ex-muslim doctors that rejected islam after they witnessed and documented the intentional murder of hundreds of Christian patients (that’s the number they personally witnessed, just in the hospitals they worked at), per year, in government’s public hospitals, by muslim doctors acting with a completely clear conscience, and even admitting it confidentially, but proudly between themselves, and praising allah for giving them the opportunity to do it “medically,” and professionally. Either by committing intentional errors during surgeries, or prescribing wrong medications based on erroneous diagnosis. It is also a known fact that the medical schools and the medical board in Egypt are totally controlled by the Muslims brotherhood.

Back to the events.

 The wounded monks and workers were then taken, after the intervention of Coptic authorities and lawyers, to El Minya city main Hospital. They were left in the emergency reception with no medical care, bleeding for four hours, and in urgent need of blood transfusions. The muslim “doctors” excuse was, “there is no blood at the hospital that correspond to the monks blood type.” Of course, their blood types is that of apes and pigs.

Immediately, our Coptic rooms on the Paltalk that were transmitting the events, nonstop, alerted the Coptic population and churches close to the hospital for the urgent need of blood donors. Within the hour, hundreds of angry Copts gathered front of the hospital, but were denied entry to donate blood by the police for “Undisclosed” security reasons.

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While the condition of the wounded monks was deteriorating, the officials at the hospital announced that their injuries are very superficial, and only requires simple medical procedures.

That was Sunday 2 pm. At 2:30pm, Coptic Pope Shenouda’s office and the highest authority of the church in Cairo immediately arranged the transportation of all the monks and the other victims to a private Cairo Coptic owned hospital. At their arrival, they were all rushed to the intensive care unit, and all required extensive surgeries. In particular, two of the monks that were kidnapped required extremely complicated surgeries that lasted more than nine hours. One monk is still risking the amputation of his crushed arm, and another almost lost his site from being viciously hit on the head with the back of a riffle and the sand put in his eyes.

With the usual cover-ups and “Taquia” lies from all Egyptian government institutions and officials, the Copts of Mallawi and surrounding areas of Deir (pronounced: dare, meaning monastery) abu Fana in the province of El Minya, which has a high concentration of Copts that suffered the harshest oppression and losses in lives and properties from muslims attacks, and the government systematic persecution during the last forty years, and not one single muslim being condemned, started to gather on Sunday at the diocese Cathedral in protest, chanting in defiance, “ With our blood and soul, we will defend the cross,” and appealing to Hosni Mubarak, the president, to intervene and let  the truth and justice prevail, and save the country from an imminent catastrophe because, “ The Coptic hearts are on fire.”

The attack on Deir Abu Fana last Saturday followed the massacre of a Coptic jeweler and three of his Coptic employees on Wednesday in Cairo, and another Coptic-owned jewelry store was targeted the next day, Thursday, this time in the port city of Alexandria.

The security police surrounded the Cathedral, since Sunday afternoon and provoked clashes with the Copts protesting, peacefully, inside the Cathedral gates.

On Monday, the spokesman priest of the diocese of Mallawi announced that the presumed “killed” muslim victim was known in the area, and his father declared sometimes ago that he wanted to get rid of him for being gravely mentally retarded. The spokesman added that this person never set foot on the land of the monastery, and no corpse was ever found by the police on the monastery’s land. He stated, very bluntly, that this presumed, “victim,” has been definitely killed somewhere else, and the accusations of the monks by the police is another deception by the police authority of the province to blackmail the Copts.

On Wednesday, another dramatic event that had the effect of heating up the emotions and disgust of the Copts in El Minya province. In a village called Dafsh, about seventy miles from Mallawi, a twenty five year old muslim killed his twenty two year old Christian neighbor by stabbing him to death.

On Thursday, hundreds of Coptic youths started to gather front of Saint Mary’s and Saint George Church in the center of the village, protesting peacefully, and demanding that the killer be judged and punished. The riot police dispersed them on Friday morning, using tear bombs.

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Friday afternoon, they gathered again at the church in the afternoon for the funeral. After the burial, they were provoked and shouted at by muslim youths. The situation quickly escalated to clashes between the two groups that prompted a massive intervention by the riot police to disperse both groups and impose a curfew on the whole village. The police announced the arrest of the muslim killer and investigating the case.

Also Thursday: in the village of El Kosheh, which made the world news in January 2000, for, "The massacre of the millinium," was the scen of another dramatic events. A security officer driving his car, hit and killed a Christian copt, according to many eye witnesses. El Kosheh have a population of 35000 Christians and 5000 muslims. The police authorities provided witnesses testifying that it wasn't the officer driving the car.    

Today, Sunday: The Egyptian government media is still insisting  that the reason for the attack on Deir Abu Fana, was robbery, and to prevent the building of wall to protect the monastery. Religion and terrorism  were not an issue. The slaughtering of four Coptic Jewelers in Cairo was also for robbery. Denying the jihad terrorism against the Copts or Christians is the surest thing for it to continue. How they would fix something that doesn’t exist. No doctor can cure a disease if the patient deny he’s sick.

This is exactly what’s happening in the West. The war on terror is a deceiving term; it’s a war on the symptoms of terror, or the consequences of terror. When you eliminate cancerous cells on top of the skin you don't eliminate cancer, you have to extirpate it from its roots, or it will spread all over the body. They may succeed to destroy some  rotten fruits, but the tree is producing other fruits, every day. And the tree producing the rotten fruits is the koran, and islamic teaching. 

These are not just words; these are simple facts that doesn’t require a high IQ to figure out, and time will prove it.    

All what the Christians in Egypt and especially the monks in the desert, and native Christians in every muslims dominated country are looking for is their right to live and their freedom of belief. Is that too much asking?

Yes, it is too much asking according to islamic government, it's against islam. For them, the cornerstone of their religion is to kill all who don’t submit to their allah, Koran 9:29, "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

Muslims are the only people on earth that it's against their religion to, "live and let live." Their "faith," order them to live and kill, those who don't adhere to the same, "live and kill," doctrine.

The question of all questions, not only for us as Copts, but for the whole Western world, who are the real terrorists, the ones that pull the trigger and cause death and desolation, or the ones giving them the means, facilitating, covering up and blessing their actions?

The terrorists are not Bin Laden, Zawahri, Zarkawi and company. They execute what they were taught and told to do. They're just the foot soldiers. You can kill them all, it won't make a dent. The koran is producing thousands in madrassas all over the islamic world, and even in the Western world every day.  

Naïve those who will think that this is a remote Coptic issue, or that the silent holocaust going on against all Christians in muslims dominated countries is also a remote issue that doesn’t, and won’t affect the West. All Islamic governments, especially Egypt and Saudi Arabia are spreading the Islamic disease in every Western country through their well established bases, mosques, schools, muslim centers, islamic organizations and official missions. Jihad will always be their biggest export product, they have the money to finance it, as it is already happening now, and their people are already within us.

All these Islamic government officials, including their leaders (thugs), and their security apparatus that are the real instigators of Christians cleansing in their countries, whom they hate and consider them part of the Western kafir world that they’re aiming to Islamize, how is it conceivable that these same governments and their security apparatus cooperate with the Western governments or with their law enforcement agencies, with good faith, to fight Islamic terrorism against the Christian kafirs in the West, when their main focus is to eliminate the Christians in their own countries.

It is important to know that governors in Egypt are not elected, but are chosen by the president. In other words, the governor is only the mouth piece, and his declarations are dictated to him by the government and the president of Egypt. Never, in the course of these grave and terrorist events,  Mubarak, the dictator of Egypt and the lackey of his masters the Saudis, which his era has been one of the most oppressive for Christians, never intervened or ordered an investigation. Would he be that silent if this attack, destruction and butchery happened to a mosque or an Islamic institution?

As for the moderate muslims in Islamic countries or their brothers and sisters in the West, their answer is crystal clear: they agree, there is no persecution or ethnic cleansing for Christians in their countries of origin. But let what happened to the monastery in Egypt, or to Christians in every Islamic country, happen to them and their mosques in the West, and they would put the world on fire. No need to waste more time trying to define moderate muslims in the West. They perfectly defined themselves, and made it clear on whose side they are.  

These are the same Islamic countries that allowed the dancing on the streets, and distribution of candies to celebrate the 911 massacres, which they called, the Islamic conquest of New York.

Al Qaeda started from Egypt by Al Zawahri’s Islamic terrorist group,  

The Grand scale deceptions, and lies of the Egyptian Islamic government, the producer of the ideology of terror across the Globe was never limited to Egypt. Many people ignore that the ideology of Islamic terror and Jihad is spread to the world by Egypt’s Sunni ideologues from  Al Azhar University who sets the guidlines for all the Sunni world, and the Muslims Brotherhood who established cells all over the world, including America and every Western country to deflate their system from within.  Saudi Arabia’s role was, and still is to provide the financing.

 

The lies and deceptions about the Abu Fana monastery events, spread by the major Western press agencies  

By Agence France Presse (AFP). Monday, June 02, 2008

Deadly Muslim-Christian clashes in Egypt

MINYA, Egypt: One Muslim man was killed and four Coptic Christians, including two monks, injured Saturday when a land dispute involving a historic monastery in Egypt turned violent, a security official said. Khalil Ibrahim Mohammed, a Muslim resident of a town neighboring the Abu Fana Monastery near the southern city of Minya, was killed during clashes with Christians, the official said. The clashes broke out when the monastery began building a wall around neighboring property after receiving final approval earlier this year. Tensions often run high between Egypt's Muslim and Christian communities in an increasingly religious society dominated by Sunnis. – AFP

No mention of muslims attack on the Monastery, shooting to kill monks. No mention of kidnapped and tortured monks. They call it, “The clashes (instead of attacks)broke out when the monastery began building a wall around neighboring property after receiving final approval earlier this year.”  

According to AFP, the “Clashes broke,” when Christians began building …” That makes the Christians the guilty ones that provoked the clashes.

Christians didn’t go to clash with muslims, they were attacked in their own Monastery by muslim terrorists thugs. This should’ve been called: Deadly muslim attack on Christian monks in their monastery.

For disseminating this deception, AFP is very appropriate for: Another Foolish Posting  

 

REUTERS  

Sat May 31, 2008 6:37pm EDT

Egyptian Christians, Muslims clash, killing one

CAIRO, May 31 (Reuters) - One Egyptian Muslim was killed and four Christians were wounded on Saturday in a clash over disputed land near a Christian monastery in central Egypt, security sources said.

Muslim Khalil Mohammed, 39, was killed by gunfire, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. At least two of the wounded Christians were monks at the monastery, the sources added.

The groups exchanged fire after Christians in the town of Mallawy, about 300 km (190 miles) south of Cairo, began constructing a wall around disputed land near the Abu Fana monastery, the sources said.

Same deception: Clash over disputed land. And then Reuters becomes the accomplice of the ultimate falsification of truth with this, “The groups exchanged fire.”

Reuters should’ve known better, that monks never carry weapons, and that the Egyptian Coptic Church has been called all along history, the Church of the Martyrs. All this proves one of three things, either Reuters people are accomplice, with the Egyptian government, in criminal cover-ups and deceptions with total disregard to the intellectual integrity of their readers. Or, they rely on sources that freelance for them in their free time, when not selling falafel and tahini sandwiches, or, their reporters job now is limited to copy and paste, which is exactly what happened. They should be called, Reuters C&P News  

That goes for all the so called major press agencies, that you wake up every morning to be fed on their disinformation and deceptions, especially when it comes to Islamic related news.

To summarize: the major catchy highlight of the news reported by those agencies is: Deadly muslim-Christian clashes in Egypt, Both groups exchanged fires, and one Egyptian muslim was killed. The rest is the trash stuffing.

If 60 Christians with Kalashnikov automatic weapons stormed a mosque, attacking 12 non armed imams. Destroying and burning the mosque and property, shooting several imams, kidnapping and torturing four of them. Several hours later, three of the kidnapped imams were found in critical conditions… etc.

Would the News agencies call this: Muslim-Christian clash? I doubt it, but you are the judge.

Or when you're in your house, and thugs come shoot at you, hitting you and torturing you to death, would you call that clashing with thugs? 

 

One of the most flagrant deceptions, caught and exposed to the whole world, which exposed the major press agencies disinformation industry, was the shameful fabricated staged scenario of “Al Dura,” affaire by France 2, one of the major French TV channels.

On May 21, 2008, the French Court of Appeals ruled that France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin and his Palestinian cameraman and France 2 stringer Talal Abu Rahma, staged the “death” of 12-year old Mohamed Al Dura in September 2000 to smear the Israel Defense Forces and blacken Israel’s name, inciting further violence and fueling the second intifada.  

Middle East and media expert Tom Gross: "today's ruling shows there are serious doubts about France 2's version of events, and that the entire world press was irresponsible in being so quick to take at face value the claims of a local Palestinian cameraman, who has admitted his partisanship."

The question is: how many out there are disseminating their deceptions who haven’t admitted yet?

This past week has been very concentrated in events that kept us focused on a situation that is still boiling, and in our analysis, highly explosive. The radicalization in Egypt is gaining momentum and all signs are pointing to more dramatic, if not catastrophic events, and not only regarding Copts issues.  

But this only reinforce our resolve and perseverance to fight islam, destroy their evil ideology, and expose it more to the world. For us, and the Western world, islam doesn't offer any other option, even if Western governments don't realize it yet. With islam, what people or governments don't realize is totally irrelevant, and past history is best proof for that. How many times people don't realize many things, but it never immune them from the consequences

We have several hours of video footage showing more in details damages and the condition of the wounded and tortured monks and other workers, unfortunately we didn't had yet the time to subtitle them in english. What I want you to see in this video, from the minute 1:33, is the barbaric attack, the fire power of the attackers, the damage, and the scene of desolation of what used to be an Oasis of peace, serenity and blooming desert.

Part of the transcript (a monk in an advanced position describing to another father in the old part of the monastery the destruction and the attack over his cell phone). 

- Gun shots ... father .. father ... they're destroying the church of Pope Kyrollos (He was the previous Pope of the church till 1971, and one of the church Saint) .. father .. they're using the excavator to destry the building ... they're destroying the whole building ... they're also destroying the cells .. and the restaurant .. father .. they're going towards the honey bees building ... yes father .. oh Lord .. father .. they're destroying the honey bees building ...

The truth about the attack on Abu Fana Monastery 

 

 Testimony of one of the tortured monk

The father monks declared that they consider, "their torture to be a blessing they don't deserve for the sake of the faith in Christ." 

Part of the transcript of the fathers saying: the torture was in every way .. and using all means ... I was not able to walk .. they were hitting with woold bars and electric cables ... they were asking us to deny Christ and to spit on the cross .. every time we were saying, "Jesus Lord," they were saying let your Jesus help you ... we thank the Lord for this blessing ... we are not deserving ... (2nd father) they thought I was almost dead .. they made us lay on the floor and there were three men and some women hitting us too .. on the head and the back ... I couldn't move ... the women were hitting us for not saying the shahada ... they used many things ...

 

THE STATEMENT OF COPTIC ORGANIZATIONS IN REFERENCE TO THE ARMED ATTACK ON COPTS AND HOLY PLACES

The undersigned Coptic organizations condemn and deplore the barbarian and brutal attacks against the historical Abu Fana Monastery in Mallawi, Minya Province, Egypt. The attack began between 2pm-5pm on Saturday, May 31st, and continued through the night. It is important to note that this is not the first time the monastery has been exposed to such a brutal militant attack perpetrated by a mob. This militant attack took place in broad daylight directly under the sight and ‘protection’ of the security officers.

This armed attack on Abu Fana Monastery resulted in four monks injured by bullet wounds, and the kidnapping of three other monks: Maximos, Andraous, and Youanas. The three kidnapped monks were returned on Sunday, June 1st, after having been tortured and beaten. Injuries sustained by these monks include fractured and broken bones.

Roughly 60 aggressors, who carried automatic weapons, carried out the armed attack on the monastery. This attack resulted in great damage to the monastery, including the theft of equipment, burning and destruction of the monastery’s farms, and the complete destruction of the monastery’s farm equipment like tractors…

At the same time the 3 monks were kidnapped, a Christian man named Ibrahim Tiqi Riad, brother of Father Mina, was also kidnapped. His fate is still unknown.

Such crimes, including other armed attacks on churches and shops owned by Coptic Christians, take place in broad daylight in a planned, systematic manner that suggests that the target is genocide of the Copts in order to weaken their existence, eliminating them both morally and physically.

The undersigned Coptic organizations does not, and will not, tolerate these crimes and attacks committed against the Copts. These crimes and attacks are incompatible with all the international declarations for human rights. We will escalate our campaign to the highest international level.

Despite the seriousness of this matter, the authorities have failed to respond in a timely manner. The security service’s negligence suggests their collaboration with the attackers.

Because of the provocative statement made by Major General Ahmed Dia Eldin (the Governor of El Minya) that this incident is “an ordinary quarrel over disputed land between neighbors,” and that “fire was exchanged on both sides;” we assert that the monks were unarmed and do not own weapons. The attackers totaled approximately 60 people who were carrying automatic weapons. The Governor also alleged that one Muslim was killed during the attacks.

Note that these statements by the government will have a negative impact on the integrity and transparency of the investigation, and gives the State Security the opportunity to change the facts.

State Security Director Major General Mohammed Nour Eldin accused some monks with charges of “inciting” the Christian citizens to clash with other residents in Mallawi. It is totally illogical to attribute such things to the monks, who have dedicated their lives to quiet prayer in the desert.

We, the undersigned organizations, demand an appeal to the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council to form an international fact-finding committee to ascertain the causes of the armed attacks against the property and lives of the monks at Abu Fana Monastery. We also demand that the Egyptian government takes action immediately to protect the lives and property of the Copts.

The undersigned organizations:

1. Coptic Association for Human Rights, Switzerland
2. Coptic Canadian Association
3. Copts-United, Britain
4. Coptic Assembly of America
5. Coptic Association of France
6. Coptic Organization of the Netherlands
7. Middle East Christian Union in Austria
8. The Voice of the Copts, Italy
9. Middle East Christians Association
10. Christian Copts of California 
11. The Cultural Organization of Coptic Intellectuals, France
12. Australian Coptic Organization
13. The International Coptic Union
14. The Austrian Coptic Organization
15. Coptic Assembly of America, California Chapter
16. The Word Center for Human Rights in Cairo
17. Free Copts
18. International Christian Union of USA
19.  American Coptic Association

20. Coptic News Organization

Mr. Hanna Zaki, Selim Naguib, and Awad Shafik, Attorneys at Law, will be responsible for filing the international complaints.

 

We invite all free people of the world, aware that the spreading danger of islamic terrorism and its lethal and growing threat to the Western world, to expose to all International Organizations as well to their own governments, the perfid hypocrisy of the Government of Egypt.

Let me remind you again, this is not only a Coptic issue. The muslim terrorists that attacked, and massacred Copts in the 80's and 90's, are the same that organized and committed the 1993 first World Trade Center bombing and 911, Egyptian sheik Mohammad Abdel Rahman (the blind sheik), serving a life sentence in America, and Mohammad Atta, the leader of the 911 operation. These terrorists in Egypt could land in America or any Western country tomorrow, or their brothers may already be in your neighborhood. Their hate for the Copts for being Christians is part of their hate for you. Have no mistake about it, fighting terrorism in Egypt prevent those terrorists from coming to you. Remember, terrorists are globalist.

The Egyptian government has been receiving more than two billion dollars from the American tax payers for the last thirty years, during the same period it produced more terrorists than ever before. It is also receiving substancial donations from practically every Western country.

You can't be that naive not to know that all this terrorist activities are done with the implied complicity of the government of Egypt. The government never condemned any terrorist for killing Christians. It applies the sharia law, "No believer should be killed for the blood of a kafir."

When a government willfully neglects to prosecute a terrorist crime, The government becomes the prime perpetrator of the crime. By its inaction she condones the commitment of such a crime and asserts her implied consent.

 

Fighting islamic terrorism requires action, it won't go away by only talking about it. The only reason we talk about it is to instigate the people to action.

Have the spirit of a soldier, and send this to your government officials, representatives, and all relevant organizations in the list, to show them how the double face Egyptian government is one of the main global terrorist breeders. As I mention earlier above, islamic terrorism is not the foot soldiers, it's the governments, and Egypt is the major player.

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Let's conclude on a sentimental note for you and all your loved ones 

Koran 8:60, "Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies, of Allah (all non Muslims) and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the Cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly."

The king of Bahrain is garbaging," Don't take Christians and jews as friends, or people of authority. Koran 5:51."

He's also throwing to the garbage mohammad's sayings, the hadith.

Sahih Muslim, Book 41: Number 6985:

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

This is the enequivocal proof, and the obvious admission by muslim rulers that mohammad's teachings are nothing but garbage that has been exposed to the whole world, thanks to the anti-jihadists community, and the mounting rejections of islam by Western populations, despite all their efforts, and all their public relation campaigns to the tune of millions of dollars.

Is islam feeling the heat? the answer is: YES

Bahrain is exploding a heavy bombshell, hoping to bleach islam and put it back on the map of the civilized world. But it's too late for this illusion to redeem 1400 years of evil history. It's a proof they realizing they reached a dead end, and the only road open for them is downturn.

They know that Islam's "religious" cover is blown away and destroyed for ever, since there were never any religion in islam. It became evident to the visionary rulers of the Arab-Islamic world, that the only way to keep islam from being swept by the deluge, is try to go with the tide, and the illusion of spectacular moves to save what could be saved.

Personally, I have the firm belief that no matter how many times a snake would change his skin, or his color, his venom is still the same, deadly. And I also have the firm belief that a “religion” consisting of deception (Taqiya) as its core fundamental cornerstone belief can’t offer anything, especially now that it’s cornered and smelling, but illusions to gain time in order to continue its all time evil mission started by its prophet of doom,

Our pledge should be: no turning back, no let down, and no compromising with Satan, even if it present itself in the form of an Angel of light. 

   

Bahrain appoints Jewish woman as envoy to US

MANAMA (Agencies)

Huda Ezra Nonoo.jpg
 Friday, 30 May 2008

Bahrain's king has appointed a Jewish Shura Council member and a top female activist as the Kingdom’s next ambassador to Washington, making her the Arab world's first ever Jewish ambassador.

“It is an honor bestowed upon me by HM the King. I am yet to receive the documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I will visit them next week and then they will spell out my role in Washington,” lawmaker Huda Ezra Nonoo was quoted by the Bahrain Tribune as saying.

“I look forward to the challenges that such a role brings with it,” she added. A member of Bahrain’s Jewish community, Huda has served as legislator in the 40-member Shura for three years.

Nonoo, a 43-year-old mother of two boys, insisted she was not chosen for the post because of her religion.

A decree issued by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa and reported by the official Bahrain News Agency on Wednesday said Nonoo was appointed as a state ambassador, but had not specified where she could be posted.

Jews migrated to Bahrain in the 19th century, mostly from Iran and Iraq. Their numbers increased early in the 20th century but decreased after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when many left for Israel, the U.S. and Europe.

Today's Jews keep a low profile in Bahrain, working mostly in banks, commercial and trade companies and retail. They live in upscale parts of the country, being part of the wealthy business community.

There is also a synagogue and a private Jewish cemetery in the Gulf kingdom.

For the last twenty five years, muslim fundamentalists attacked and robbed Coptic jewelers who refused to pay the jeziah

It's worth noting that the all powerful Egyptian security apparatus never succeeded in bringing any of the perpetrators to justice. 

 

Middle-East News

May 28, 2008

Two men on motorbike enter Copts owned jewellery shop in Egyptian capital's Zeitoun district, shoot dead owner, staff.

The victims included the owner, named as Makram Gamil, 60, and one of his staff, named as Makram Salib, 22, both of them Christians. The other names were not immediately available.

CAIRO - Two men in wigs and sunglasses shot dead four Coptic Christians jewellery shop workers in the Egyptian capital on Wednesday in an apparent gangland-style killing, a security official and witnesses said.

The shooting happened at around 12:30 pm (0930 GMT) in the mixed Christian-Muslim district of Zeitoun in northeast Cairo, the official said, adding that the attackers escaped without stealing anything from the shop.

Eyewitnesses said that the men arrived at the shop on a motorbike, walked in and shot dead the shop's owner and three employees before driving away, in a rare act of brazen bloodshed in the capital.

"Preliminary investigations show that the motivation behind the attack could have been revenge," the official said, adding that the owner had frequent disputes with local residents.

The official had initially said the killings were the result of a drive-by shooting.

Police, who swiftly cordoned off the area, found 15 revolver shell casings at the scene, the official said.

Cairo's Zeitoun district is a famed pilgrimage site where, according to witness accounts, the Virgin Mary appeared above the Church of Saint Mary over a period of several years in the late 1960s.

The apparitions were seen by millions including Copts, Muslims, Jews and atheists.

Egypt's Copts - the largest Christian community in the Middle East - account for an estimated twelve to 15 percent of the country's 80 million inhabitants and complain of systematic discrimination and harassment.

Tensions often run high between Egypt's Muslim and Christian communities in an increasingly religious society dominated by Sunni Muslims.


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