The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Christians during Holy Week to prevent construction of church
Islamic law forbids the construction of new churches. Christians are “forbidden to ring church bells or display crosses, recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays, and are forbidden to build new churches” – Reliance of the Traveller o.11.5 (6,7) “Egypt Churches Hit by Violent Protests,” Missions Box, […]
Egypt: Muslim kidnaps Christian woman, sends her father certificate of her conversion to Islam
UPDATE: She has been rescued, which does not erase the fact of the crime that was committed: Breaking News: Martina Mamdouh Wadi has returned Her mother rejoices at the news “I first thank our Lord, I thank the Virgin because this is their daughter. And I thank the whole people of the Church because she […]
Egypt: ‘You Christians, you worshipers of the cross, this is our city, and we will cleanse it of people like you’
Extend this out over fourteen hundred years, and you see how the “Islamic world” was created. “Harassment and Persecution Faced by Egyptian Christians,” International Christian Concern, December 18, 2023: 12/18/2023 Egypt (International Christian Concern) — In a harrowing tale of religious persecution, Amina* endured harassment and threats in Beni Suef Governorate last year after moving […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Christian’s home over rumors that Christians were building an unlicensed church
Islamic law forbids the construction of new churches. Christians are “forbidden to ring church bells or display crosses, recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays, and are forbidden to build new churches” – Reliance of the Traveller o.11.5 (6,7) “Updates on the Persecuted Church – October 17, […]
Egypt: Christians, particularly women, face ongoing pressures to convert to Islam
According to Islamic law, Muslim man can marry a Christian woman without her having to convert to Islam, but her conversion is still desired, as it reinforces the growth of the Islamic community at the expense of the non-Muslim community, which is a core Islamic imperative (cf. Qur’an 8:39). “Pressured Conversions Bring Shame and Stigma […]
Egypt: Muslim authorities deny Coptic Christian couple custody in adoption case
The Christian family is being denied custody because every child is born Muslim. “Abu Huraira, narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Every child is born with a true faith (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone) but his parents convert him to Judaism or to Christianity or to Magainism, as an animal delivers a perfect […]
Egypt: Four-year-old child taken from adoptive Christian family because every child is born Muslim
“Abu Huraira, narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Every child is born with a true faith (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone) but his parents convert him to Judaism or to Christianity or to Magainism, as an animal delivers a perfect baby animal. Do you find it mutilated?’ Then Abu Huraira recited the holy […]
Egypt: Muslims murder two Coptic Christians in Sinai
The Islamic State (ISIS) has been active in Sinai for quite some time. The Egyptian government either will not or cannot do anything about it. Salama Moussa Waheeb and his son Hany were murdered because they were Christians. As this does not fit any media narrative, you’ll only hear about it here. “Two Copts shot […]
Egypt: Muslim screaming ‘there is no god but Allah’ stabs two Christians for selling beer
Sharia apologists in the West routinely insist that Sharia only applies to Muslims, and that non-Muslims therefore need not be concerned about it. They are, of course, lying. “In an urgent and exclusive video, the owner of a beer warehouse and his son were attacked in Al-Omraniyah,” translated from “بالفيديو عاجل وحصري ذبح صاحب مستودع […]