Egypt: Christian arrested for offending Muslims, witch-hunt for 5 others
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 14, 2015 06:52 pm
Last week, security agents arrested Gad Yusif Yunan, a 22-year-old
Coptic Christian man who works as an English teacher in Nasriya village,
Upper Egypt, on the charge of “contempt of religions.” He is accused
of posting a 30-second video on his personal Facebook page that deals
with Muslim prayers and is apparently insulting. Once local Muslims
discovered it, […]
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Egypt: Bombs explode near two churches on Easter Sunday
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 14, 2015 06:43 pm
On April 12, Easter Sunday according to the Orthodox calendar, the
churches of Egypt’s Christian minorities—Coptic Orthodox and
Protestants—were, as usual, under attack. According to Egyptian media,
three explosions took place in Zagazig vicinity on Sunday
to coincide with Easter celebrations. Two targeted churches. The first
explosion—which was placed under a parked car—took place near […]
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Hamas-linked CAIR demands Brooklyn College drop Pamela Geller talk
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2015 06:33 pm
The Hamas-linked terror organization (so designated by the United Arab
Emirates) known as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is
enraged that Pamela Geller has been invited to speak at Brooklyn College
next week. Note the sneer of cold command with which Hamas-linked
CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper addresses Brooklyn College officials in these
leaked emails: he […]
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Egypt: Muslims prevent Christians from praying in Coptic home
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 14, 2015 06:17 pm
It is not enough that Muslims in Egypt prevent Christians from building
or even renovating churches, but, as in other Muslim majority nations,
when Christians merely meet in one of their homes, Muslims still attack
and prevent them. After Muslims in Egypt rioted and engaged in
anti-Christian violence at the proposition that a church be […]
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New Jersey: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” throws lit firecrackers at synagogue
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2015 01:24 pm
You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward
the believers to be the Jews…” — Qur’an 5:82 Generally in the real
world that verse and other antisemitic verses in the Qur’an have the
effect of making the most intense of the people in animosity toward the
Jews to be the […]
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Seven Muslims from France in jihad suicide attacks for the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2015 11:38 am
Six of them were converts to Islam, illustrating, as French Prime
Minister Manuel Valls says here, the Islamic State’s “formidable ability
to indoctrinate.” In a sane society, intelligence officials would be
studying that ability to indoctrinate and formulating ways to counter
it. Instead, all — all — Western governments have committed themselves
to the fiction […]
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UAE: Indian man charged with insulting Islam on Facebook
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2015 11:22 am
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
— Barack Obama, September 25, 2012 “Indian charged in UAE with
‘insulting Islam,'” IANS, April 14, 2015: Dubai, April 14 (IANS): An
Indian man has been charged in a UAE court for allegedly posting on a
social networking site comments that insult […]
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Afghan president admits he’s losing troops to Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2015 11:05 am
The worldwide appeal of the concept of the caliphate is demonstrated
once again. “Afghan president admits he’s losing troops to ISIS,”
Associated Press, March 21, 2015: KABUL, Afghanistan — President Ashraf
Ghani publicly acknowledged for the first time Saturday that the Islamic State is gaining influence in Afghanistan as he prepared to leave for the […]
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Pentagon says Islamic State has lost 25% of its territory
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2015 10:44 am
This is welcome news, but we have heard this song before, as the
Pentagon wants to play up the success of the Obama airstrikes, and the
media wants to prop up Obama. So this is what we have been hearing: Has
ISIS peaked? Terror group suffers setbacks in Iraq, CNN, November 14,
2014 ISIS Is […]
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