Surrounded
“Copt slain in clashes with Muslims”
“Sectarian divide” or religious bigotry? “Egypt Christian killed in clashes with Muslims,” fromAFP, thanks to JW
MINYA, Egypt (AFP) — A Coptic Christian was killed by a stray bullet during an overnight gunfight between Christians and Muslims in a town in southern Egypt, a security official said on Saturday.
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) – Some of the 11 European tourists and their Egyptian guides kidnapped 10 days ago and released unharmed Monday have left an Egyptian hospital and are headed home, officials said.
A picture from television footage of the hostages landing at an Egyptian military base.
* Looks like Egypt is very eager to save its tourist industry. In some cases money talks louder than Islamic terrorism….
Most of the five Germans, five Italians and one Romanian will have left the country by Tuesday, said Egyptian Tourism Ministry spokeswoman Omayma el-Huseini.
They were shown on Egyptian TV on Monday arriving at a military base near the capital, Cairo. Some clutched bouquets of flowers as they stepped off a military aircraft.
At least 15 people, including 11 foreign tourists, are reported to have been kidnapped in southern Egypt.
The tourists were said to be five Italians, five Germans and a Romanian, while four Egyptians were also said to have been seized.
* A dirty little Muhammedan agit-prop by name of Ismail Imadudeen vilifies Copts and denies there is religious discriminination in Egypt, all the while praising the jiziyah and accusing the victims of the vilest Muslim behavior of ‘hatred and retribution’- your ilk is really beneath contempt, Ismail!
And, while he’s at it, incredulously asks: “Is There Religious Discrimination in Egypt? [2],” by Ismail Imadudeen for the California Chronicle, August 12: (thanks to Raymond from DW)
The Hamayouni Decree and Tax Payment [Al-Jizyath]
‘Copts want the antiquated 19th Century Hamayouni decree be abolished. It is inconceivable to require that the president of Egypt must approve permits to build a church or even to repair a toilet in a church. Mosques in Egypt are being built with no restrictions.’ US Copts Association.
This quotation represents one of the most striking and controversial demands for the Copts in Egypt, which requires the ratification or even the abolition of the ´defamed´ Hamayouni decree. So what is the Hamayouni decree? Is it an Islamic, Quranic invention, or is it just a creation of man, who could be some times wise and some other times insane?
First of all I would like to explain that law to the ordinary, neutral reader; the Hamayouni decree regulates the building of the non-Muslims religious facilities, which was first passed in February, 1856 by the then Ottoman Emperor, and, surprisingly, it was passed to give more rights to the minorities within the Islamic Ottoman Empire. The law was used for the first time in Egypt, after ´Egyptianizing´ it, in February, 1934, and there were ten, controversial conditions for granting permission to build Christian worship facilities. In fact, the Egyptian version of the law has been a pale version that was highly misunderstood, and some times misinterpreted.
Just another aspect of the perpetually “misunderstood” and “misinterpreted” religion of Islam.
* The ugly reality versus the slimy taqiyya-spin-doctors in the West who tell you the old ‘no compulsion in islam’ chestnut. Now this is Islam -the real Islam- in action, as it always was since its inception. And this is what Christians, Hindus and Jews, Buddhists and Zoroastrians and all those unbelieving dhimmies are expected to put up with under Islam. For if they revolt, there will be violent reprisals against their whole community, not only against a few. The long suffering Copts in Egypt have been the receiving end of this practice for too long, but because of the collective amnesia in the West about everything Christian has any politician ever spoken in their favor?
Kidnapped Christian girls in Egypt
Islamic Tolerance Alert: more on this story. “Christian girls forced to convert to Islam,” by Martin Barillas for Spero News, August 1: via DW
Justice Saghir Ahmed, a judge of the Multan bench of Lahore High Court, Pakistan, sent on July 29, 2008 two under-aged Christian girls to a “darul aman” in Multan, Punjab, for their safety. Darul aman is the name of the institutions set up by government for the shelter of women needing temporary sanctuary or protection.According to Aftab Alexander Mughal, of Minorities Concern of Pakistan, Saba Younis, 13 years old, and Anila, 10 years old, sisters and Christians, were kidnapped on June 26 by a Muslim man Muhammad Arif Bajwa and then forcibly converted to Islam. When the matter came before the court, Main Naeem Sardar, District and Sessions Judge Muzaffargarh, on July 12, ordered that the girls are not to be remanded to their Christian parents because the girls are Muslim now.
