07/19/2008
Almost half of Egyptian women harassed daily: poll
CAIRO (AFP) - Almost half of Egyptian women are sexually harassed on a daily basis with more than half of Egyptian men admitting lewd behaviour, the Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights said on Thursday.
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07/09/2008
Firsts in sectarian conflict
An illicit affair between a 17-year-old Coptic man and an 18-year-old Muslim married woman from the town of Tamiya in Fayoum resulted in Muslim demonstrations and the torching of Copts’ property last week. A Coptic-owned supermarket, timber store, and kiosk were
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07/03/2008
Glenn Beck: Women causing rapes?
GLENN: Let me go to Brad Thor. Hello, Brad.
THOR: Hi, Glenn, how are you doing?
GLENN: Good, sir. Where are you?
THOR: I'm in Chicago just starting out on my tour
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06/27/2008
The Copts expose Muslims terror in sweeping demonstrations all over the Western world
No one on earth
knows Islam
and muslims
better than
the Copts.
Will the West get the
message and wake up ?
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Ex-Muslim on the Run for Conversion
CBNNews.com - From the Gaza strip to neighboring Egypt, his father is promising to kill him for becoming a believer.
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06/23/2008
France: Coptic Christians to march against attacks in Egypt
France's Association of Copts plans to hold a demonstration on Sunday against what it calls "repeated and ferocious" attacks against members of the Coptic Christian minority in Egypt.
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06/08/2008
Police dispersed a demonstration of hundreds of Christians after the death of a young Egyptian
Egyptian police used tear gas Friday 6-6-2008 in the pacific demonstration in which hundreds of Christians of a village, located south of Cairo, after the death of a young Christian of which Muslim youths are accused of killing him; But the state of sectarian tension still prevailed in the village, according to eyewitnesses.
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06/06/2008
United Copts of Great Britain
Press Release ; 4 Christians, a jeweler and 3 of his workers were killed in cold blood at mid day by masked men in Zytoun district in Cairo. The masked men sped away on motorcycle. The Egyptian police seem not
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06/01/2008
Men in wigs and sunglasses kill jewellery shop workers
Four Cairo Copts (CHRISTIANS OF EGYPT)shot dead gangland-style
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05/23/2008
Terrorism: Al-Qaeda halts spread of the church in Arab world, claims leader
A senior al-Qaeda leader, Abu Yahya al-Libi, claims that the terror organisation has stopped the expansion of the church in the Arab world.
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05/20/2008
EGYPT: PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS BELLY DANCING PERFORMANCE
CAIRO, May 19 - The Egyptian Peoplés Assembly condemned today the perfomance of a belly dancer at a high school prom. "We condemn such a behaviour and we
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05/07/2008
EGYPT: GRAND HYATT BANS ALCOHOL, BOTTLES THREW IN THE NILE
(ANSAmed) - CAIRO, MAY 5 - No more alcohol in the British pub at the Cairo Grand Hyatt, where zealous employees last week threw in the Nile alcohol worth almost a million euro. Saudi Arabian Sheikh Abdel Aziz Ibrahim, owner of the Hotel, banned alcohol prompting the
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04/29/2008
Egypt cracks down on the 'live in sin licence'
In the back rooms of trinket shops, hidden in the snaking alleyways of Cairo, licences for love are signed, sealed - and sold
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04/23/2008
Statement issued by the supporters of "Muhammad" retribution from all installations Christianity
Throughout the Arab Republic of Egypt during the upcoming Christians holidays and Coptic Organizations. It appeals to the government and all state institutions to take necessary security measures to protect the Copts and
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Muslims attacked Christian worshippers and dragging women’s hair in Upper Egypt.
Come to our attention that a group of Muslims had attacked yesterday some worshippers after leaving the Christian Orthodox Church of Abu Fana of the village of Hor Palace modules, using sticks, resulting in the injury of five Coptic people with
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04/10/2008
Egypt Sentences 5 Men for Homosexuality
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian court convicted five men Wednesday on charges of homosexual behavior and sentenced them to three years in prison, officials said.
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03/29/2008
Islam’s ‘Public Enemy #1’
Coptic priest Zakaria Botros fights fire with fire.
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03/20/2008
Egypt Detains Christian Bookshop Worker
CAIRO EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian bookshop employee in Egypt faced possible police interrogation Monday, March 17, after
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03/01/2008
Egyptian al Qaeda leader reported killed in South Waziristan airstrike
(longwarjournal.org) Pakistani and US intelligence are attempting to sort out the names of the al Qaeda and Taliban operatives killed in yesterday's airstrike in Azam Warzak, South Waziristan...
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02/02/2008
TESTING THE FAITH : 'No one leaves Islam,' judge rules Egyptian court bans convert to Christianity from changing ID card
No one ever leaves Islam, according to a judge in Egypt who has cited Islamic religious law in rejecting a request from a Muslim convert to Christianity to (MR.HEGAZY IN PIC)
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Egyptians who sold expired goods to the Palestinians dismayed to discover that Palestinians paid for them with counterfeit money
(israeltoday.co.il) Israel's...
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01/15/2008
EGYPT: ATTACK ON COPTIC MONASTERY, ONE MAN INJURED
A group of some twenty Muslims with automatic weapons attacked on January 8 a Coptic monastery in Upper Egypt, in Minya, 300 kilometres south of Cairo, injuring
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01/02/2008
Making a comeback: Male belly dancers in Egypt
CAIRO: Farid Mesbaah, male belly dancer, hopped on a car in the Shobra District of Cairo and strutted his stuff.
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12/28/2007
Midnight Praise raid
As the Copts of the Upper Egyptian town of Esna, north of Luxor, celebrated the traditional Kiyahk Midnight Praise on the eve of Sunday 16 December, the church of the holy Virgin, where a large congregation had gathered for worship, was attacked with stones and
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12/16/2007
Egyptian police arrest 7 after Christian shops burned
CAIRO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Police arrested at least seven Egyptian Muslims after a riot in the southern city of Isna on Sunday that left at least 13 Christian-owned shops smashed up or burned and a church front damaged, security sources said.
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Again, cases of missing Coptic girls
(By Nader Shukry - Watani Newspaper)It all began with her father’s generosity. He trusted the man and invited him into his home but never imagined this same guest would go behind his back and seduce his daughter.
Shawqi Hanna Khalil went to the police station at
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12/09/2007
TESTING THE FAITH : Copts plan rally in support of jailed mom
A rally is being planned on Sunday by Coptic Christians in Egypt who have decided "enough is enough" after a 47-year-old mother was jailed because she married as a Christian.
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12/06/2007
Terrorism: Al-Qaeda urged to attack Knights of Malta in Cairo
Rome, 6 Dec. (AKI) - A message posted on Islamist websites close to al-Qaeda is urging jihadists to carry out a terrorist attack on the embassy of the Roman Catholic Order of Malta in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
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11/26/2007
Woman Sentence To Three Years For 'Lying' On Marriage Certificate
Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - An Egyptian court has sentenced a woman to three years in prison because her father converted to Islam briefly 45 years ago. Under Egyptian law, religion is passed to children from the father.
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11/17/2007
The decade-old Luxor massacre irrevocably changed both tourism and terrorism in Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt: It was a stunning attack, still recalled with horror a decade later: Islamic militants armed with knives and automatic weapons massacred 58 foreign tourists, mainly Germans, Swiss and Japanese, at one of Egypt's most popular pharaonic temples, mutilating some of their victims.
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11/13/2007
Egypt ID cards sentence minorities to non-life: report
CAIRO (AFP) — Christian converts and members of minority religions suffer daily discrimination in Egypt, which restricts their access to work, education, travel and healthcare, a rights report said on Monday.
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11/12/2007
Sectarian violence in Gabal-al-Teir, Minya : Truck loads of violence
The rocky Gabal-al-Teir (Mountain of the Birds) towers high above the lush green fields on the eastern bank of the Nile valley in Samalout, Minya, in Upper Egypt. Perched right on top is
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11/10/2007
Egypt: Women and Christians cannot be president, say Muslim Brotherhood
Cairo, 8 Nov. (AKI) - The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's strongest opposition group, has said that women and Christians cannot become president in Egypt.
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11/07/2007
EGYPT: AUTHORITIES FREE CHRISTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
MECA leader and colleague were jailed on spurious charges of ‘insulting Islam.’
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10/20/2007
Why Do The Copts of Egypt Fear Friday?
By Jacob Thomas
I noticed a very intriguing title of an article on the plight of the Christian community in Egypt : "Why Do the Copts of Egypt Fear Fridays?" The writer, himself an Egyptian now living in France , gave a realistic explanation that should stir our thoughts, and make us fully aware of the suffering of this brave minority. I share with the readers of FFI excerpts from the article, and follow with my analysis and comments.
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10/11/2007
Egyptian Islamists Join Case against Convert to Christianity
Former Muslim sues Egypt for right to become Christian.
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10/09/2007
Man wearing 'face veil' tries to pass driving test as a woman
Cairo - A man concealed behind niqab - a piece of cloth that some female Muslims cover their faces with in a show of piety - pretended to be a woman during a driving test in Cairo in an
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10/06/2007
Egyptian Police Investigating Coptic Christian Double Murder
Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - Two Coptic Christians were found dead in a village 240 miles south of Cairo, police said. They added that they were investigating the incident as possible sectarian violence in the same village that witnessed (pic 21 christians killed in in el kosheh 2001)
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10/05/2007
EGYPT: ITS NO JOKE, FATWA BANS CINEMATIC WEDDINGS, DIVORCES
(ANSAmed) - CAIRO, OCTOBER 3 - Film scenes of marriage and divorce are outlawed in a new fatwa (religious edict) issued by Al-Azhar University - considered by
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Egypt action alert
One of Egypt’s most prominent political dissidents said on Tuesday that foreign donor aid to Cairo should depend on U.S. ally Egypt granting greater political freedoms.
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09/28/2007
Egyptian Student Admits Producing Bomb-Making Video
(charlotte.com) In a 12-minute video posted on YouTube, an Egyptian man wearing a white shirt, khaki pants and rubber gloves explains in Arabic how to turn a toy boat into a bomb. His name is Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, and last month he was arrested...
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09/26/2007
Egypt jails two Christian activists for "defaming Islam"
An Egyptian court has extended the jail term of two Christian human right activists who were arrested and imprisoned on charges of defamimg Islam last month, a member of a Christian group said on Wednesday.
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09/23/2007
Egypt communities clash over girl
Cairo - Police in Egypt arrested 28 people in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria after Muslim and Christian youths clashed in a row over a girl, police said on Saturday.
Fighting broke out late on Friday after Ahmed Abdel Hamid, a 22-year-old Muslim, claimed he saw a Muslim girl headed for a residential building with Sami Rustum, 22, a Christian in the Al-Asafra district, the policeman said, on condition of anonymity.
Abdel Hamid demanded to know where Rustum was taking the girl and a verbal exchange took place before both called on their friends to support them.
The fight, in which at least 20 Christians and 20 Muslims threw stones and hurled bottles at each other, left six lightly injured.
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09/15/2007
The sixth girl
The Holy Virgin’s church at the mid-Delta town of Mehalla was the scene of Coptic demonstrations this week in the aftermath of the disappearance of 18-year-old Amal Zaki Nessim. Amal went to
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09/14/2007
When underage Coptic girls disappear : The unspeakable agony
Last February officials for the first time placed a figure on the number of disappearing Coptic women. The report of the National Council for Human Rights declared it had received 32 complaints of missing young Coptic women during the
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09/06/2007
EGYPT: COURT DELAYS RULING ON ‘RECONVERSION’
Tribunal to decide in November whether converts to Islam can return to Christianity
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09/05/2007
EGYPT: CHRISTIAN TWINS FORCED TO ‘BECOME’ MUSLIM
Hearing adjourned indefinitely; Baha’i children also struggling for religious freedom.
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08/24/2007
CRISIS AT HOLY VIRGIN AND ST MARINA’S CHURCH
On Tuesday 14 August morning was the first scene of the dispute between the security forces and the congregation of the Holy Virgin and St Marina’s church, on Egypt’s north coast, 107km west of Alexandria.
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08/12/2007
NOT ONLY TORTURED BUT MURDERED
“Three Egyptian officers have been charged with murdering Nasser Seddiq Gadallah after beating him to death before throwing his body from the window”, judicial source said. The source added there are six other officers were charged with involving in the same case. The victim's family accused the police officers of
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A Muslim converts to Christianity foments sectarian antagonism
CAIRO, Egypt: An Egyptian Muslim who converted to Christianity has gone into hiding, facing death threats after he launched an attempt to get official recognition of his change of religion, an unprecedented step in this conservative Islamic nation.
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08/09/2007
Egyptian authorities have detained two Coptic Christian activists suspected of posting anti-Islamic messages on a Christian website
Lawyers for Adel Fawzi and Peter Ezzat say security officers arrested the two at their homes in Cairo on Wednesday. Police sources confirmed the arrests. Fawzi and Ezzat are senior members of
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08/08/2007
FAITH UNDER FIRE : Egypt's torture of Copts prompts warning Rights group asks judge to make ban on deportation permanent
(WorldNetDaily.com )A human rights organization given special consultative status by the United Nations wants a U.S. judge to make an order halting a Christian man's deportation to Egypt permanent – because
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08/05/2007
EGYPT: MUSLIM SUES FOR RIGHT TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY
ISTANBUL, August 6 (Compass Direct News) – A Muslim convert to Christianity filed suit against Egypt last week for refusing to legally recognize his change of religion, sparking a reactionary lawsuit by Muslim clerics and death threats against his
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08/04/2007
'Egyptians killed 4 Sudanese on border'
Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF troops, a shaken-sounding IDF soldier said in an interview with Channel 10, Thursday evening.
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07/29/2007
Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al Praises Sheik Yousef Al-Qaradhawi for His Support of Suicide Operations and States: The Holocaust Was Exaggerated and Is Used to Extort Germany. Zionist Holocaust against Arabs Much Worse
Following are excerpts from speeches delivered by Hamas leader Khaled Mash'al and Sheik Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, at a conference in honor of Al-Qaradhawi, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on
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07/24/2007
NEWS ALERT Egypt Police Hands Over Christian Convert To "Fanatical Muslim" Family--report
CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Egyptian police in the city of Alexandria who last week arrested a Christian convert, handed the woman over Monday, July 23, to her fanatical Islamist family, who beat her before driving her away, a well-informed Christian news agency reported.
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07/18/2007
Egyptian Liberal Sayid Al-Qimni and London Islamist Hani Al-Sibai Debate Secularism and Fundamentalism in the Arab World
Following are excerpts from a debate between Egyptian liberal Sayid Al-Qimni and
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07/01/2007
Death of 12-Year-Old Circumcised Girl Shocks Egypt, Prompts Ban on Rite
(foxnews.com) The death of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision in the country's south has sparked a public outcry and prompted health and religious...
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06/22/2007
Egyptian Islamists are not what they seem
''The Brotherhood is an historic hard shell movement that has no respect or tolerance for democratic or Western values.''
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06/19/2007
Some Guys Just Won’t Take No For an Answer
By Sara Ghorab
There she was, a small, shivering figure huddled against the side of a mountain of trash, trying to get warm. She wasn’t lost or alarmed or incoherent, because she’d done this before. In fact, she lived in the trash dump.
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Egyptian Intellectuals Discuss the Hijab
Bahija Hussein, Egyptian journalist: Despite this surge of the hijab and of religious clothing, the state of moral values in Egypt is at its worst, and women are harassed in the streets, even if they wear the hijab or the niqab.
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06/17/2007
Copt-Muslim tensions rise in Egypt
A SPATE of recent clashes between Christians and Muslims in Egypt has raised fears of heightened tensions between the
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06/15/2007
Christian Seeks US Asylum To Avoid Torture By Muslims
Sameh Khouzam, a 38 year old Egyptian Coptic Christian is seeking asylum in the US. He fled from Egypt nine years ago to escape forced conversion to Islam. The US is threatening to deport him back to Egypt where he will likely face torture or death. This from Bob Unruh for WND ;
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06/13/2007
ANTHER ATTACK ON CHRISTIANS IN Dekheila EGYPT
At around 9:00pm last Tuesday, the Holy Virgin’s Church in Dekheila, 10kms west of Alex, was attacked by Islamists. The town is notorious for being home to fundamental Islamists and radicals. Once the security authorities were informed, the police directly showed up on site, surrounded the church with police cars and