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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Increasingly Repudiates Nonviolence
The Muslim Brotherhood is every bit as dangerous for Egypt as the Nazis were for Germany. And recall that Egypt, like Germany in the 1930s, has a vulnerable minority, readily susceptible to terrorist violence (in Egypt’s case, Coptic Christians make … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, coptic, Egypt, immigration, Islam, muslim brotherhood, nazis
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Egypt and the Hell of Islam
At The New Republic, Graeme Wood, a journalist and editor for The Atlantic, writes about his Salafi acquaintances in Egypt, and describes one of the bloke’s understanding of hell in graphic detail. What Graeme Wood learned from him and some of … Continue reading
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Tagged alexandria, coptic, Egypt, hell, Islam, Muslims, salafists
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Bearing Witness to Maspero: Image of Egyptian Christians at Maspero Morgue Killed by Police and Islamic Mob Violence, October 9th, 2011
The image comes from Wikipedia Commons. These were among the 26 victims of October 9th, 2011, in the Cairo district of Maspero. The image was taken at the Coptic hospital’s morgue. ———- This, from the European Council on Foreign Relations, seems … Continue reading
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Tagged arab spring, cairo, Christianity, coptic, coptic christians, Egypt, Islam, kristallnacht, muhammad, religious persecution
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Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Comments on the Maspero Square Massacre of Egyptian Christians
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is a graduate of Cairo University and has been the leader of Coptic Christians in Alexandria (and most other Christians residing in north Africa and the Middle East) since 1971. Coptic Christians make up about 9% of the … Continue reading
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Tagged alexandria, Christianity, coptic, Egypt, human rights, Islam, Jesus, muhammad, religious freedom
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The Christians of Egypt are the Jews of the Early 21st Century
I’m not being hyperbolic. The world needs to protect the Christians of Egypt, and it can do so by opening opportunities for them to immigrate. Christians number about 9 million people in Egypt—about 10% of the population—and they’re “the other” standing in the way … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Christians, coptic, Egypt, Exodus, immigration, Islam, Jesus, Jews, Moses, muhammad, Statue of Liberty
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