Category: Egypt

A mob attacked a church in Minya, Egypt, on 13 July protesting against its legalisation and received a police officer’s approval.

Remember how South Africa used to be shunned at sports events because of Apartheid?

Why don’t other supremacist regimes meet with similar exclusions?

Egypt’s top administrative court ruled on Saturday that regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube for one month over a video that denigrates Muhammad.

An atheist blogger who was previously detained for promoting his anti-religion views, was arrested by Egyptian police, a rights lawyer said on Saturday.

A young Christian mother was shot and killed by the jihadist she tried to help — yet another instance of the brutal savagery and cruelty of ISIS.

“Many Muslim young men from our village and villages nearby gathered in front of the church building and began pelting it with stones and bricks while shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ [Allah is the greatest], and ‘We don’t want a church in our village’,” said Medhat Halim, a resident in the village.

The Islamic State is urging its followers in Egypt to carry out terror attacks targeting Christian tourists in a bid to ‘embarrass’ the ruling El-Sisi government and destroy the country’s tourist economy.

Egyptian TV Host Gaber Al-Karmoty marked the occasion of the downing of the Israeli fighter jet by the Syrian army by bringing a box of chocolates to the TV studio.

Militants belonging to the ‘State of Sinai’ group in Egypt have promised to “kill more Copts” after murdering a 27-year-old Coptic man because of the tattoo of a cross on his wrist.

The Egyptian scholar and historian of medieval Islam, Professor Youssef Ziedan, recently caused a great deal of controversy in Muslim Arab circles, roiling the waters when he put forth, on an Egyptian talk show, his argument as go why the “Al-Aqsa” mosque in Jerusalem is not, and cannot be, the real one.

As Saudi Arabia relaxes its rules against cinemas and women drivers, Egypt now looks set to inherit the coveted title of Arab country with the most absurd restrictions. Having made little progress in combating an Islamist insurgency, the Sisi regime has turned its attention to the “threat” posed by atheists, gay people and – increasingly – musicians.

A gunman killed two Copts celebrating the New Year in an Egyptian alcohol shop early on Monday, judicial and security sources said, the latest deadly violence against the Christian minority.

According to our correspondent, the explosives belt discovered on the dead assailant suggested an even more deadly attack was planned.

Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators assaulted an unlicensed church south of Cairo, an Egyptian Coptic Christian diocese said on Saturday, in the latest assault on members of the country’s Coptic minority.

An Alexandria lawyer and coordinator of the Revolutionary Lawyers Movement, Sherif Jadallah, has filed a complaint with the Attar District Court demanding the banning of any Jew from entering the Great Synagogue in Alexandria and allowing Muslims to perform the five daily prayers inside the synagogue.

The Egyptian military kicked off a hunt for the attackers of a Sufi mosque in the northern Sinai, a military source said, combing the area of Friday’s assault that killed at least 235 people — thought to be the deadliest terror attack on the country’s soil.

CHRISTIANS were forced to lock the doors of their church for their own safety as a furious mob launched an attack on the building as tensions continue to soar in Egypt.

An attorney in Egypt said it was a patirotic duty for men to rape those women who walk around wearing ripped jeans. And he said it on live television.

The fact is that the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group and should be designated as such in the US, along with Muslim Brotherhood-tied groups such as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, et al. Instead, these jihadis are invited to speak at Harvard. I kid you not.

A court in Muslim-run Egypt has sentenced four gay men to three years each in prison — for the crime of being gay.