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Some Copts are seeking for a law that regulates the construction of places of worship in Egypt.
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The Prisons of the Arab Mind
I have been studying the Arab mindset for the last four decades from several perspectives.
Al-Azhar Comes to the Cathedral
The Washington National Cathedral of the Episcopal Church will host a “Christian-Muslim Summit,” March 1-3, 2010. ...
Egyptian Regime: A Model of Arab Hypocrisy
While the hypocrisy and deception of Arab leaders toward the West have reached serious levels, Western leaders continue to compromise and jeopardize our future by failing to find alternative energy sources, allowing Arab investments and receiving Arab culture. ...
Colin Hannaford, Director IDM comment on The Arab Cocoon
Dear Doctor Heggy, I greatly enjoyed meeting you in KCL last week. I found your book deeply interesting and informative and have made some comments that I hope you may find useful. They are attached. I remain, thankfully and in great admiration, Colin Hannaford....
MLK had a dream: Israel included
More than four decades after his death, the lessons from the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remain as telling today as they did in the days when his teachings revolutionized a nation and led to a new understanding of civil rights. ...
Mubarak Responsible for Copts' Blood
A couple of years ago, I wrote to the Egyptian ambassadors in Washington, D.C., Rome, and the Vatican. My open letter was published prior to the Copts' Christmas and contained an invitation to the Egyptian authorities to stop their farcical Christmas visits to the Coptic churches. Copts all over the world, and some Westerners, recognized those visits as propaganda in favor of the Egyptian regime....
Not All Muslims Are Suicide Killers, But All Suicide Killers Are Muslims
Earlier today, I was lying on my gynecologist’s table in a highly exposed position when suddenly she said: “You’re probably going to think this is very politically incorrect but isn’t it crazy not to profile? I mean, isn’t it clear who’s doing what?” ...
Israel & The Arabs : The Post-Settlement Challenge.
I believe that the two-state solution is coming in the near horizon, regardless of the approval or disapproval of some. ...
Europe's looming demise
"The Europe as you know it from visiting, from your parents or friends is on the verge of collapsing," Geert Wilders said in a speech in the United States last year. ...
Egyptian Regime Interfering in Swiss Internal Affairs
The behavior of the current Egyptian regime is effectively a continuation of Arab practices during their occupation of Egypt in the past 1430 years. ...
SHARIA LAW SNEAKED INTO LABOUR BUDGET
THE Treasury plans to rewrite Britain’s tax rules to usher in a new wave of Sharia law for the country’s financial system....
Wishful thinking, biased reporting endanger Rifqa Bary
A new government case plan directs Rifqa Bary, the girl who fled from her family in fear for her life after converting to Christianity from Islam, to talk about religion with her Muslim parents, and work toward Rifqa returning home....
Banning Minarets and Democracy
Sunday, November 29, 2009 will be remembered as a turning point in the protection of our democracy and freedom. I believe that all of the West must congratulate every Swiss citizen that voted to ban the building of Minarets as well as those who agreed to allow them to be built....
Open Letter to Coptic Pope
His Holiness Pope Shenuda III, Patriarch and Bishop’s President of the great Alexandria, I am certain that this open letter will meet various disappointments in the Coptic community. ...
Will Saudis allow construction of cathedrals to challenge Swiss ban on minarets?
Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC expressed surprise on statement of Pakistani representatives in UNHRC expressing concern on Swiss vote ban on construction of minarets on mosques and other Islamic institutions in Switzerland when construction of new Churches in Pakistan has to follow strict government guidelines which prohibits one furlong from existing mosque and use of loudspeakers. ...
Free Speech Silenced at Columbia and Princeton
Nonie Darwish, the executive director of Former Muslims United and author of Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law, was scheduled to speak at Columbia and Princeton Universities last week, but both events were canceled under pressure from Muslim groups on campus....
A Different Kind of Ice Cream truck
There use to be a mosque near my home, but the adherents have since move their digs to Crenshaw Boulevard. ...
Political Correctness and Preaching Religion
A few days ago, during the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) meetings in Rome, Libyan president, Gaddafi shows us once again the Arab mentality and methods....
I Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.....
Is It Permissible To Join A Kaafir Army?
In the years since 9/11, we have seen a serious re-defining and whitewashing of what our deen is and is not. Since the Ft Hood shootings, and even before that, we have seen many Muslim organizations refer to US troops which are occupying Muslim lands, as “our troops”. ...
It Isn't Political Correctness; It's Shariah
In surveying the cultural carnage in the wake of the worst terrorist attack on a military installation in U.S. history, it bears noting that there have been seismic shifts in America. When America was free of the shackles of Islam, say, fifty years ago, the current response to such an attack by an enemy faction would have been unthinkable. ...
Politically correct is morally wrong!
Suppose Maj. Nidal Hassan had called a meeting of agents of the FBI and top officers of Fort Hood, and then said something like this: ...
European Court and the Crucifixes
The international system is spinning to please part of the world. A great number of western people simply call it political correctness. Others, including myself, consider it attacking certain beliefs, or simply attacking Christianity....
Who Attacked the Mosque in Gaza City
Who attacked the mosque in Gaza City in which 21 people allegedly died during Israel's counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead last winter in Gaza? ...
‘Devout Muslim’ Psychiatrist Massacred 13 US Soldiers
The man who pulled the trigger and massacred 13 U.S. army soldiers Thursday and wounded 30 others is the grandson of Arabs from Samaria, a devout Muslim psychiatrist and a U.S. army officer who screamed, “Allah Akbar” (Arabic for Allah is Great) before he fired. The attack ended after he was seriously wounded, and he is in intensive care at an army hospital. ...
State Dept's Religious Report Under Attack
Critical reactions to the U.S. State Department’s 2009 International Religious Freedoms Report’s section on Israel continue to be expressed. The official report, which accuses Israel of “governmental and legal discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism,” has itself been accused of being a “protracted denunciation against Israel’s Jewish character.” ...
Egyptian Political System and Copts
Egypt has a unique political system and language. The system is made to serve the regime’s purpose inside the country as well as its relationship with the international world. Egypt became a republic after the 1952 coup, as in any republic system the president has to be elected among others who are bidding to lead the country. Citizens vote for the candidate whose promises meet their needs....
Dormant conscience
Days and the people standing insistence of various religion and sects and political groups and rich and poor, it happened behind the rarely comes along only every four years, is the next match with Algeria to select the team were promoted to World Cup...
UNESCO Awards an Egyptian Scientist
L’Oreal, the French science academy of UNESCO, chooses an Egyptian woman for best scientist out of top five, for the year 2010....
Criticizing Islam? Sorry, You're Cancelled
Conservative warrior David Horowitz was scheduled to speak at St. Louis University this month. But he won’t be. University officials canceled his speech because of its title: “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.”...
Arabs Default More on Taxes – Not Because of Nationalism
A research study conducted in Ben Gurion University in Be’er Sheva finds that Jews are three times as likely to pay property taxes than Arabs – and explains why....
UNESCO Election and Arab Hypocrisy: The Victim Game
On behalf of Voice of the Copts, I offer best wishes to the newly elected UNESCO Director-General, Her Excellence Ambassador Irina Bokova, wishing her the best of luck in serving cultural interests in the international community. ...
Egypt: Security services watch European Salafists
Many deeply religious students from Europe come to Egypt to learn Arabic. The question is: are these European Salafists coming to study the language of the Koran or to prepare terrorist attacks?...
Pakistani mosque forced to close
AN Islamic community must find a new place of worship after a controversial mosque was shown the red card....
UNESCO, Farouk Hosni No Thanks
In order to cement the refusal to have the Egyptian Minister of Cultural to lead one of United Nations' organization, a few points do need to be emphasized; ...
The Coptic cause is not for sale
Lately I noticed that many self proclaimed Coptic leaders are acting suspiciously. In order to clarify facts to our readers and Copts,...
Britain’s Move to Islam? Pools Accept Muslim Dress Code
Europe continues to move to Islamic Sharia rule: Several British swimming pools require non-Muslims to dress like Muslims to avoid offending them, even though the sessions are held separately for men and women. ...
Arabs And the threat to the western values and civilization
We have often heard through the wailing, and mourning Arab mass media about the Western conspiracy against Arabs, and its efforts to undermine the foundations of the Arab presence, ethics, existence, and heritage....
May We Please Have the Moon?
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ANALYSIS: Copts in Egypt and Muslims in the West
CAIRO: Copts calling for equal rights in Egypt and Muslims calling for equal rights in Europe could easily be grouped together under the category of religious minorities struggling for equality. But for some, such a statement would be inaccurate. ...
Arab Journalist: Arab World Puts 'Refugees' Through Hell
Prominent Arab journalist Daoud Al-Shiryan has recently written columns harshly criticizing the Arab world for its mistreatment of “Palestinian refugees.” Arab refusal to integrate the “refugees” into society is “no different than objecting to peace,” said Al-Shiryan in columns translated by MEMRI....
Egypt 57 Years Later (4)
When Anwar Sadat was assassinated Hosni Mubarek had come to power immediately becoming the fourth Egyptian president. Even though he was not part of the “free officers” who were actively involved in 1952 coup, he was a military pilot who had participated in various Egyptian military operations. ...
Buddhists Fear to Walk in Southern Thailand
Buddhism in Thailand Nearly 95% of Thailand's population is Buddhist of the Theravada school, though its Buddhism has become integrated with folk beliefs such as ancestor worship as well as Chinese religions from the large Thai-Chinese population. Buddhist temples are characterized by tall golden stupas, and its architecture is similar to those of Cambodia and Laos....
70 Murders, Yet Close to Going Free in Pakistan
MULTAN, Pakistan — It has been 12 years since Fida Hussein Ghalvi testified against the militant who was charged with killing 12 members of his family. But some days he feels as if he were the one who ended up in jail. He still gets threats, his servants all quit and an armed guard is posted at his gate. ...
The Muslim High School
If you don’t think the creeping influence of Islam is a problem in America, look at what happened at a public school in Dearborn, Mich., a city famous because Muslims have just about taken it over. The Muslim principal of Fordson High School fired the wrestling coach because a student wrestler abandoned Islam and converted to Christianity....
'Obamamania' on a Slow Crawl Among Muslims
A new poll has found that "Obamamania" has not erupted in the Muslim world. ...
The crafting of Obama's Cairo speech to world's Muslims
The president worked with dozens but put his own delicate touch onto a blunt address that would grab global attention -- and some criticism....
Fatah to Back Violence, Reject Israel as Jewish State
The Fatah party, which leads the Palestinian Authority, will meet in Bethlehem this week and call for “controlled violence” against Israel, the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al Watan reported....
Global terror warning as Somali militants flex muscles
NAIROBI -- An Al Qaeda-linked militant group waging war against Somalia's fragile government is becoming an increasing threat to Western ally Kenya and could potentially destabilize the region with dire consequences for global security, officials and analysts warn....
Jewish, Not Arab, Roots in Judea and Samaria
US Pres. Obama’s demand that Israel not settle Jews in the Biblical areas of Judea and Samaria ignores thoroughly-documented Jewish roots in the Land of Israel, and in Judea/Samaria in particular. ...
Muslim Converts to Christianity Targeted in Somalia
In some parts of the world it can be very dangerous to convert from Islam to Christianity, or any other faith. Sometimes Christians are killed by radical Muslims or sometimes by the state which sanctions death or prison....
Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’
The terrorist sues to resume his jihad from prison. The Obama administration caves in. ...
More Honor Killings In The West, Yet No Outrage?
“The struggle for women’s equality continues in many aspects of American life,” said Barack Obama in Cairo in June, “and in countries around the world.” Too bad Obama wasn’t speaking about Islam. ...
Egypt 57 Years later (3)
In my previous two articles, I had emphasized what is one of the main Arab characteristics - the art of lying otherwise known as Taqia. ...
As Muslim women suffer, feminists avert their gaze
Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, an angry Khartoum journalist who works for the UN in Sudan, has started a campaign against shariah law by elevating a local police matter into an international embarrassment: ...
Egypt 57 Years Later (2)
The celebration of a false victory invented by Nasser after the stalemate of 1956’s war is a clear indication and key to understand the typical Arab’s mindset. One of the tenets of Islam is to lie to others. Over time, the liar will even accept the lie to be true. ...
Egypt 57 years later (1)
This Thursday will mark the 57th anniversary of a sad hour of Egyptian history in the 20th century. ...
Two Measures and Two Scales in the Arab World
The recent murder of a Egyptian who was Muslim occurred couple of weeks ago in Dresden, Germany had made great news in Egypt and in the Arab world. The Germans handled the murder in the normal way that news of this sort is normally handled....
Muslim world's rage missing over Uighurs' plight
Where are the fatwas? The angry marches in front of embassies, the indignant speeches? Where are al-Qaeda's videos? In short, what does China have that Denmark did not? China has been actively discriminating against Muslims, and recently a number of them have been killed in violent street riots. ...
Who are the fascists in Europe?
We write from time to time about European politicians and parties -- notably Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom in the Netherlands -- that are standing up against the Islamization of Europe...
The diffrence between Civile and Uncivilized
Israeli Research: Fighting Swine Flu Pandemic With Mathematics...
Never surrender. Never submit. Never be silenced
on this Independence Day join us in our fight for freedom and independence forever...
Islamic law challenges Western freedom
Islamic law should not be recognized under the United Kingdom’s arbitration laws because its principles are outdated and they contradict Western laws, a report by a British think-tank said on Monday, which Muslim figures dismissed as "scaremongering."...
Obama’s Plans for PA State Stuck in Neutral
The deep division between Israeli and American views on the future of Judea and Samaria became more evident Tuesday when the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced the cancellation of a planned meeting with U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, in France....
Police Load Protestors in Frozen Meat Van
An Iranian philosophy professor protesting the elections in Iran has revealed in his personal diary on Facebook.com scenes that vary from surreal comedy to all-too-real brutality. After the beating of a riot policeman, he admits, “We’re not beasts! We’re not like them!’ I think, ‘But the bastard deserves it.’ I don’t recognize myself and my feelings anymore.”...
Khamenei raises stakes as Iran braces for violence
Iran’s Supreme Leader dramatically raised the stakes in his country’s political crisis today by demanding an end to the massive street demonstrations and warning of a violent crackdown if they continued. He also accused "treacherous" Britain of leading a western conspiracy to destablise the Islamic Republic by fomenting the protests. ...
The Seven-Point Manifesto of the Iranian Resistance
Their demands include no less than the resignation of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This widely circulated document has been translated by PJM's Ardeshir Arian. ...
Napolitano adds adviser with ties to terror backers
JERUSALEM – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in to her official advisory council the head of an Arab American organization whose officials have labeled deadly anti-U.S. jihadists as "heroes" and opposed referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization. ...
The Taliban will ‘never be defeated'
‘Colonel Imam’, the Pakistani agent who trained Mullah Omar and the warlords to fight the Soviets, says the US must negotiate with its enemies...
Barack Obama routs hardliners
Barack Obama must have said something right if Osama bin Laden, Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran and the Jewish settlers on the West Bank all lined up to denounce his speech to the Arab and Muslim worlds. ...
Obama delivers strong attack on Israeli settlements in speech to Muslim world
Before a crowd of robed Muslim clerics, dissidents who have served time in jail, students from across the region and besuited government officials from authoritarian regimes, President Obama made an historic speech yesterday to try to mend America’s battered ties with the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims. ...
Obama prepares to embrace Muslim world in Cairo speech
President Obama held talks with Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian President, in Cairo this morning as he prepared to deliver a keenly awaited speech reaching out to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. ...
More than the Muslim world watches Obama
Much is being made of President Barack Obama’s upcoming address to the Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday. The White House has made clear that Obama wants to assure Muslims around the world that Americans share common goals and want to work together to achieve them. But religious minorities in Egypt including Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahá'ís want assurances too....
The Emergence of President Obama's Muslim Roots
The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign....
Military Intelligence: Countdown to Iranian Nuke Bomb
The head of the IDF Military Intelligence Research Division informed the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday that Iran is only one year away from obtaining enough material for a nuclear weapon.....
Obama in Egypt: One speech, many audiences
WASHINGTON - President Obama has a sweeping goal for his speech Thursday in Cairo, Egypt: to begin remaking the dynamic between the United States and Muslims abroad. ...
Muslims want more than fine talk from Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama has awoken hope for redress of grievances in the hearts of some of the more than a billion Muslims scattered in diverse communities across the globe....
Fears of Muslim anger over religious book
'Does God Hate Women' by Jeremy Stangroom and Ophelia Benson cites attitudes to women and criticises Mohammed's marriage ...
'Obama's settlement freeze decrees are like Pharaoh's'
"The American demand to prevent natural growth is unreasonable, and brings to mind Pharaoh who said: Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river," Science Minister and Habayit Hayehudi head Daniel Herschkowitz said Sunday, ...
Florida Case Angers Muslim Groups
A federal immigration judge denied bail Friday to a 23-year-old engineering student from Tampa who has been charged by the U.S. government for engaging in terrorism....
When Egypt killed the pigs, it undermined a way of life
In Cairo, tens of thousands of trash collectors who raised pigs lost most of their income when the government, out of an unfounded fear of swine flu, ordered the animals killed. ...
Stop ignoring Islam's: Bronx bomb plot reminds us of a core religious problem
"These were people who were eager to bring death to the Jews and the Jewish community." Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Snyder provided this apt characterization of the four converts to Islam whose plans to bomb a Bronx synagogue and a Jewish community center were thwarted....
Raad Salah: Netanyahu will Try to Rebuild the Jewish Temple
Sheikh Raad Salah, leader of the Northern Wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, believes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will try to rebuild the Jewish Temple. ...
The Forgotten Faithful
Followers of Jesus for nearly 2,000 years, native Christians today are disappearing from the land where their faith was born....
Venezuela sends uranium to Iran
In a sign the Foreign Ministry may be switching its focus from dealing primarily with the Palestinians to more "classic" functions involving the rest of the world, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon will travel to South America next week to attend the meeting of the Organization of American States. ...
Muslim anger ignites violent new response
Far-right-wing vigilantes burned a makeshift mosque in Athens over the weekend after Muslim immigrants in Athens attacked police with rocks and bottles over an incident in which a policeman reportedly defaced a Koran. ...
Copts between Mubarak and Obama
The head of the Egyptian regime canceled his visit to the United States which was scheduled to take place on May 26th, 2009. On the other hand, before Mubarak’s cancellation, the White House announced that President Obama was to visit Egypt on June 4th and address his new policy towards Arab and Muslim countries....
Battle for a Taliban town of terror
Initially welcomed, the mullahs controlled Mingora with burnings and beheadings. Now the Pakistani army is attempting to expel them...
Guantanamo guilty go free while "cleared" stay
Most of the prisoners convicted of terrorism crimes in the Guantanamo tribunals are free men today while most of the Guantanamo captives cleared for release in the regular U.S. courts are still imprisoned at Guantanamo....
A Painful Education in the Middle East
When 11-year-old Islam ‘Amr Badr turned up to school on a winter morning last year in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria, no one would have guessed that failing to do his math homework would cost him his life. ...
One Year behind bars, two Copts are unjustly detained in regime’s prison
Two Christian Copts, brothers Refaat and Ibrahim Fawzy Abdo, who were falsely accused last May of killing one of the militant Muslim raiders on the Abu Fana, Monastery, have been detained for a third time....
Refugees Risk Death to Reach Israeli ‘Haven’
Ali Ahmed is struggling with life in Egypt. The Somali refugee was in jail for nine months, has no job and recently got as far as the Sinai Peninsula before turning back to Cairo after plans to cross into Israel fizzled out following a run-in with police....
U.N.: Pakistan Faces Biggest Crisis Since Rwandan Genocide
The number of people displaced by fighting between Pakistani security forces and the Taliban reached two million yesterday as the U.N. warns the conflict is turning into the largest displacement crisis since the Rwandan genocide....
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Copts: it’s not Mubarak and his regime’s fault
The countdown for Mubarak’s visit to the White house is in progress. Mubarak will be in Washington and he will meet with the new democratic president. The elected American president will meet with everlasting president of Egypt. ...
Egypt Refusing to Sign WMD Treaties
Egypt is refusing to sign treaties prohibiting biological and chemical weapons, a week after it was reported that weapons-grade uranium was found in Egypt....
Iran Deploys Missile Launchers in Strategic Waterway
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have begun deploying mobile launchers for surface-to-air and surface-to-sea missiles in the Strait of Hurmuz and other areas in the Gulf, it has been revealed....
Why Investing in Egypt is Unsafe
Certain information has to be said without compliments or political correctness. Being that I was born in Egypt it is difficult to speak badly about my native country, especially since I hold a great love and admiration for its history, ancient civilization, and majority of its people. ...
Egyptian Christians riot after swine flu cull
Egyptian leaders ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of pigs today to help protect against swine flu, prompting angry protests from the poor Christian farmers who feed their animals with a country's food scraps. The decision was also criticised as a "real mistake" by a senior UN food expert. ...
Egypt’s Mass Swine Killing Is Part of Forced Islamization
A few weeks ago news surfaced about the H1N1 influenza that was spreading from Mexico. This kind of influenza was known but largely ignored....
Egypt Wrestles with 'Female Genital Mutilation'
Cairo, Egypt] In June 2007, 12-year-old Badour Shakour died as a result of a circumcision operation. The death sparked a battle within the country over the use of the controversial medical procedure. ...
Islamists To Pope: Define Your Position on Islam, Peace
Amman, Jordan] Controversial remarks by Pope Benedict XVI about Islam and Prophet Muhammad in 2006 could catch up with him during his May visit to the Mideast. ...
Mubarak’s Easter Package of Taquiah
This Easter the Egyptian president sent the Copts a greeting in the Diaspora. Some of the greeting’s points were discussed in previous articles. ...
'Without benchmarks, US dialogue with Iran will fail'
Without a clear time frame and set benchmarks, the dialogue US President Barack Obama plans to hold with Iran will fail to stop the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons, Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon has told The Jerusalem Post...
Are Copts Equal Citizens Under Sharea Law?
In the past few months Coptic activists in and out of Egypt and have started to ask the Egyptian government to remove the identification of religion from the official national identification cards. They have also asked to have a law allowing construction of worshiping places. ...
Mubarak's Letter to Coptic Immigrants
The Eastern Christian and Orthodox Churches had their Easter this year on April 19, one week after the Easter of Catholic and Western Christians. The Copts of Egypt celebrated the resurrection of Jesus together with the other Eastern Churches. ...
Mr. Maher El Gohary a Muslim converted to Christianity
Dott. Arch. Ashraf Ramelah, President and founder of Voice of the Copts...
Catholic celebrate Good Friday in the Holy City
Thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world poured into the Holy City of Jerusalem under sunny skies on Friday to pray along the traditional route that Jesus took to his crucifixion....
Arab Extremists Invading Indonesia
An in-depth study emerged recently that leveled accusations against Arab organizations and individuals and claimed that that they are trying to control ideology in Indonesia and alter its society from one that is known for tolerance to one that is religiously fanatic and politically extremist. The study argued that the spread of Arab extremists in Indonesia was an organized and comprehensive plan that focused deliberately on penetrating all aspects of life in Indonesia....
For Egypt, Promise of 1979 Peace Still Unfulfilled
CAIRO — In the past week, Egypt marked the historic 30-year anniversary of its peace treaty with Israel without any public celebration and only the barest public mention....
Closed Meeting of Immigrant Copts and Saad Eddin Ibrahim; Preparations to Establish International Coptic Entity
More than a hundred activists of immigrant Copts in the United States and Europe held a closed meeting on March 28-29 with Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim in Virginia....
Conference on Anti-Discrimination calls on Freedom of Belief and Abolition of Sharia Article from Egyptian Constitution
Under the motto "You are the Homeland: Dream of what you want", the First Cairo Conference on Anti-Discrimination was held from 27-29 March 2009....
Human Rights Council: ARTICLE 19 and CIHRS Condemn Adoption of Resolution on Combating Defamation of Religions
ARTICLE 19 and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) condemn the adoption of a resolution on “combating defamation of religions” by the 10th session of the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday 26 March...
A hundred years of curbs on press freedom in Egypt
CAIRO: A hundred years ago, 25,000 people took to the streets to protest a new publications law that made it easier for the government of Prime Minister Boutros Ghali, along with Khedive Abbas Helmy II and the British colonialists, to shut down newspapers through administrative and financial restraints....
Outspoken U.K. Bishop to Resign
LONDON – An outspoken cleric who became the Church of England’s first non-white bishop plans to step down so that he can dedicate his time to defending persecuted Christians....
Boycott of Egypt's Christian Copts Un-Islamic: Muslims
CAIRO -- An online campaign for boycotting Coptic businesses in Egypt is drawing fire from scholars and the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's biggest opposition group, as a violation of the tenets of Islam and a threat to social fabric....
USA – Europe Stop Aid to Egypt and the Arabs!
This call may sound daring and provocative, but it is time to face facts and stop the use of the new expression of 'Political Correctness'....
Copt Historian Deprived of University Post due to Surname "Israel"
The Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization EUHRO condemned the injustice and religious discrimination against Dr.Maged Ezzat Israel by the Egyptian universities....
NDP mulls abolishing religious affiliation field in ID cards
CAIRO: Just over a week after Egyptian Bahais won legal recognition of their right to obtain personal ID cards without having to lie about their faith, media sources report that the ruling National Democratic Party...
A move said to promote freedom of faith Egypt may remove religion from ID cards
In a step expected to cause controversy in Egypt, a ruling party official announced that the government was studying the possibility of removing the religion section from all identification cards following a similar move in Lebanon....
Letter to Hon. Jim Karygiannis, P.C., M.P. Scarborough-Agincourt
From Mark Harding: Sir. I don’t believe that anyone in their right mind would support persecution of anyone anywhere for any reason and I know I don't. I commend you and your office for doing a lot of work on this issue and I do appreciate the hours you have spent trying to make heads or tails of it all. ...
The US State Department report on rights in Egypt Notoriously poor record
The US State Department’s human rights report, released a few weeks ago, stressed that the Egyptian government’s respect for freedom of the press, and religious freedom declined last year. Security forces arbitrarily arrested and detained individuals and kept them in prolonged pre-trial detention. ...
Iraqi Christians Still Face Persecution
Nearly six years since the beginning of the war in Iraq, Iraqi's are increasingly saying that their country is becoming a safe place to live, according to a recent survey. For Christians, however, the daily threat of violent attacks means these are still uncertain times....
Let Christians Adopt, Egypt Baby Trial Lawyer Says
A lawyer for a U.S. couple jailed in Egypt in an adoption case said Egypt should pass a law allowing Christian families to adopt, because a legal gap that disallows the practice is pushing them to do so in secret....
Mideast decries justice double standards on US!!!!!
A consensus has emerged in the Middle East to support Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, seen as a victim of Western malice, regardless of his innocence or guilt for war crimes and crimes against humanity....
Washington Post Advises Obama to Get Allies from outside Rulers' Palaces
In its editorial yesterday, The Washington Post advised President Obama to find allies for progressive change in the Middle East, but from outside the rulers' palaces....
A European Criminal Investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report brings the otherwise unreported here news of a major criminal investigation into several Muslim Brotherhood leaders and groups in Germany and Belgium....
When it comes to Islamic Saudi Academy textbooks, forget trust — just verify
For years, the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, the Institute for Gulf Affairs, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and various Washington Post journalists have been documenting the fact that the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in northern Virginia —...
Democratization almost stagnant in Egypt, says report
CAIRO: Democracy in Egypt has deteriorated slightly since 2006 and the spread of democracy globally has come to a halt, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) 2008 democracy index....
Question: What is Most Terrifying to Autocrats? Answer: Justice
Until recently most autocrats believed they had no one to answer to, except the god they pretended to believe in. But as the Roman statesman Cicero is reported to have uttered in deploring the viciousness and corruption of his age, "O tempora o mores!" (Oh, the times! Oh, the customs!) Yes, things are beginning to change. Perhaps creeping in slowly; but nevertheless change is coming....
Inquiry to check faith schools are teaching right from wrong Some pupils ‘not prepared for life in British society’
Independent faith schools are to be investigated by Ofsted over government concerns that some do not teach children how to fit in with British society....
The Crime Committed by Ayman Nour Against the Rights of the Copts
I hesitated in writing this article about the crime committed by Ayman Nour against the rights of the Copts, all throughout the period of his imprisonment on forgery charges, for which he was sentenced to five years of which he spent nearly four years behind bars....
U.N. May Try to Criminalize Criticism of Islam
UNITED NATIONS -- For the last nine years, the U.N.'s annual ban on defaming Islam has been non-binding. In March, the United Nations may try to impose its view on Islamic blasphemy on all of its member nations -- including the United States -- thus making criticism of Islam a crime. In December, the U.N. General Assembly, as it has every year since 1999, passed a resolution titled "Combating Defamation of Religions."...
The victims of the ICC warrant
The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Beshir, though expected, has lit a fire under Arab and African leaders whose own despotic regimes may very well find themselves on the wrong end of the ICC stick — with no carrots in sight....
Lawsuit Accuses Interior Ministry of Civil Registry Fraud to Entrap Copts in Islam
The price of parents changing their religion is paid for by the children, this is the new reality, which is experienced by many affected Egyptian families. They are confused because they embrace a religion while the official papers confirm they belong to another one....
Darfur and the Hunt for General Al-Bashir
What goes round comes round. The dictum could apply to the case involving Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir who is hitting the headlines once again. The case started at the United Nations and returns there....
Critic Says Islamic Extremism Gets Whitewashed in American Textbooks
NEW YORK — An education expert is warning that some American textbooks present a biased view of Islam and offer a sugarcoated picture of Islamic extremism, a trend that has parents worried about what's being taught in public schools....
Andrew and Mario Awaiting a decision
Since the Egyptian law stipulates that rulings by the personal status court may only be contested by the public prosecutor, Ms Kamilia Lutfi appealed to the public prosecutor Abdel-Megid Mahmoud to ...
"Getting Out of the Dark Tunnel"
For the Enactment of the Unified Law for Building of Places of Worship...
US National Intelligence Council: Egypt Lost its Leadership Role in Region
A recent U.S. National Intelligence Council report suggests Egypt has lost its leading role in the region in the last five years and that leadership in the Middle East is passing to Saudi Arabia....
Coptic Cause Loses Two Great Writers and Activists...Father Youta and Mr. Hanz, please do not gave up!!!
A few days ago Father Youta announced that he will retire from writing due to a controversy with a certain website which used to publish his articles. Now the popular Mr. Hanz Hanna has decided to stop writing too in solidarity with Father Youta. Both decisions were based on the behavior of that website. Unfortunately we lost the efforts of two great Coptic writers, and no doubt the website lost its reputation of non-bias to say the least!!!!...
Off limits to Christians
Two weeks ago saw an inauspicious incident within Parliament’s Proposals and Complaints Committee. A bill proposed by MP Ibtisam Habib to legalize unofficial marriage (urfi) contracts in order to protect young women from situations where they are entitled to no legal rights as wives or mothers was vehemently opposed by MP Abdel-Rehim al-Ghoul. It was not that Ghoul had anything against the bill; ...
Egypt has got its priorities wrong
The regime is more likely to enforce petty rules to protect its sense of authority than laws that serve the public good....
Father Youta ….. Evil won!!!!!!
Dear father Youta; For a long time I followed your writing with great interest. You are a candle lighting the darkness of our society. This morning I was shocked when I read about your decision of stop writing. In spite of my respect for your decision and understanding to your frustration, I decided to write these few sentences hoping that you may rethink your decision....
MIDEAST: Human Rights Defenders Under Siege
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama must take a leadership position in championing human rights in the Middle East and North Africa by using U.S. economic and trade leverage and confronting the growing global threat of authoritarianism being promoted by Arab regimes, advocates say....
Mubarak's Appeasement of the New American Administration
The Egyptian government unexpectedly released Ayman Nour, one of the thousands of political opponents, who are rotting in Egyptian jails. The official information indicated that the decision to release him was taken on medical grounds....
New Hope for Reform in Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Arabia has just had its own St. Valentine’s Day Massacre -- a bloodless one that brings hope of much-needed reform. On February 14, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah carried out a sweeping shake up of his cabinet and government. He replaced several of the government’s top Wahhabi ideologues with others thought to be more religiously tolerant, reform-minded, and with close working ties to the king. ...
Watch That Welcome: Will Barack Obama unconditionally embrace the Middle East's autocrats? Hosni Mubarak hopes so.
Will Barack Obama unconditionally embraces the Middle East's autocrats? ...
Paving the Way for Mubarak's Visit to the United States in April
We know that Mubarak is preparing to visit the United States in April to meet with its new President Obama. This visit is very important to the ageing Mubarak, who is desperate to keep up his image as self-acclaimed regional stabilizer, leader of the Arab world and main player in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A role which also secures him nearly 2 billion dollars of in US aid plus handouts yearly....
Funds lost over hatred
Minister called 'professional whore' Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is poised to slash federal funding to Canada's largest Arabic group after its president called him a "professional whore" for supporting Israel. ...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Iran
During a February trip to Iran, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal praised Iranian leaders for their support during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, a further indication of the strengthening ties between the Sunni Islamist group, which the United States has designated as a terrorist organization, and the Shiite regime in Tehran. Mashal's statements come on the heels of the U.S. ...
Editor arrested for 'outraging Muslims'
Protests against Indian newspaper over article reprinted from Independent. The editor and publisher of a major Indian newspaper have been arrested for "hurting the religious feelings" of Muslims after they reprinted an article from The Independent. Ravindra Kumar and Anand Sinha, the editor and publisher of the Kolkata-based English daily The Statesman, appeared in court yesterday charged under section 295A of the Indian Penal Code which forbids "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings" ...
Geert Wilders and the Fight for Europe
Britain has just witnessed the spectacle of a duly elected parliamentarian from another EU country, Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, being denied entry to the country because he constituted "a threat to public policy."...
Muslim Women to the Norwayy Police Dept: We MUST Wear a Hijab police uniform
The Norwegian government's decision to rethink its earlier approval to amend the police uniform law to accommodate hijab is upsetting the Muslim minority in the Scandinavian country...
Dilemma of a Corpse Stuck Between Muslims and Copts A Sectarian Strife Almost Broke Out!!!
Al-Azhar University Hospital,held the body of a Christian-born Muslim convert for three days, refusing to hand it over to his Coptic family because they are not allowed to bury a Muslim....
The speech Geert Wilders would have given
Geert Wilders is a Dutch MP and he is the one who made the 17 minutes Video "Fitna". He landed in Hithrow Airport in London, England two days ago. But the British authorities refused to let him into England. [Lord Ahmad threatened that if the talk takes place he will gather 10,000 Muslims to riot in front of the House of Lords]!!!!!!!!!!! He was going to give a speech in the British House of Lord about the Video "Fitna", but of course he had to return back to Holland without doing so. Here is the speech which Geert Wilders would have given in the British House of Lords....
Jihad against Love: Valentine's Day Enflames the Middle East
"Al Gharam mamn’uh, al Gharam kufr," screamed the self-declared cleric in al-Ansar’s chat room this Friday. “Love is forbidden, love is infidel” -- said the online fatwa about the “legitimacy of loving and being in love.” ...
The Elephant in the Room: Intimidating Critics of Islam
We lost more than a million jobs in the past few months, the headlines remind us. So last month's story about a Dutch court's ruling that Geert Wilders was "inciting hatred and discrimination" - and that "it is in the public interest to prosecute" him - understandably didn't make the American news....
Egyptian Christian's recognition struggle
Maher al-Gohary has converted from Islam to Christianity. In spite of facing death threats, he's engaged in a legal battle to have his changed religion recognised on his official Egyptian documents. ...
Exclusive: Saudi Wahhabis are Unique Muslims
Unless you are an Arab, or someone who speaks Arabic very well and have lived in Saudi Arabia for a while, you might not be aware of the following facts and practices from Saudi Arabia and Wahhabi communities across the globe. ...
Egypt, Yemen and Morocco First among Arab States in Decline in Freedom of Expression in 2008
Extending the emergency law, canceling al-Hiwar (the dialogue) TV channel from the list of NileSat companies, the Audio-Visual Transmission and Monitoring the Internet, the prohibition of publication in the case of Suzanne Tamim, and the imprisonment sentence against Adel Hamouda, chief editor of Al-Ahrar daily, in the case of the libel and slander against Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh....
The Assyrian Universal Alliance wrote letter to President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden
The Assyrian Universal Alliance wrote the following letter to President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden to appeal for an Assyrian autonomous state in Iraq. The Assyrian Christians of Iraq continue to struggle for their indigenous rights in their ancestral homeland, Iraq. As Christians, Assyrians are the most persecuted nation in Iraq and the UN has reported the number of Assyrian refugees who fled to Syria and Jordan in the hundreds of thousands, and rising daily....
Obama's Executive Orders: Is Egypt Listening?
You may have missed it because it was ignored by virtually the entire the American mainstream press, but there's a really creepy irony that accompanied President Obama's decision to close Guantanamo and end torture, secret prisons and extraordinary rendition....
Arbitrary Arrests Inflame Egypt's Sectarian Tensions
Voice of the Copts receives and publishes Mr. Hal M. Meawad’s reply to Joseph Mayton http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=24196...
Initiative for Churches' Unity Calls upon Christians to Defend Their Citizenship Rights 'Until Their Last Breath'
"Is Christ divided?" under this slogan an important symposium calling for the need for unity among the different churches in Egypt, was held on Friday, February 6, in Shubra, Cairo....
Rasha Noor A Christian Convert Sent A Letter to President Hosni Mubarak
Please Immediately Release Priest / Metaos Abbas Wahba Basilios...
Zakzouk: Religious Channels Have Turned Muslims into World's Laughing Stock
Endowments Minister Mahmoud Hamdy Zakzouk said the ministry's preachers are not responsible at all for what he called "the fatwa pandemic" that has broken out in so-called religious satellite channels. He said these channels are in truth what most discredits Islam and Muslims given the backward fatwas that they spread across the globe, saying such fatwas turns Muslims into the world's laughing stock. ...
Copts Between an Islamic Government and Their Own Church
Throughout its history, Egypt has always been the ambition of foreign invaders. In fact, Egypt was invaded several times, by different occupiers and for different periods. However, the worst one of them all, was the Arab occupation of Coptic Egypt, from the 7th century until our present day....
One voice, One body in Christ, serving the Coptic Cause...
Dear fellow Copts; On the occasion of Mr. Mubarak's coming visit to the United State of America, Voice of the Copts would like to schedule a one-day meeting with the Coptic leaders and activists....
"Sawiris" calls on Liberals to Support the Government Against the "Muslim Brotherhood" and Underlines that the Government is Still Living Under the Mantle of "Nasser"
Engineer Naguib Sawiris, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Orascom Telecoms, called on the liberal political forces to support the government against the "Muslim Brotherhood", stressing that the government alone will not be able to defeat them....Saudi activists liken child marriages to slavery
The controversy over legalizing a minimum age for marriage in Saudi Arabia continued as members of parliament and human rights activists likened marrying minor girls to the slave trade, local press reported Sunday....
Without a Bag of Fruit or Even a Watermelon an Egyptian Government Commission Visits Copts in Canada and America to Prepare the Ground for Mubarak's Visit to Obama
This article is the translation from Arabic into English for the same published in our Italian/Arabic home page. Translation is made by A dedicated voice of the Copts’ member ....
Open letter to President Barack Hussein Obama
Mr. Barak Hussein Obama New president of United States of America Mr. President; Less than twenty-four hours of your installation, herewith please find my open sent you after your election. ...
Voice Of the Copts Send a Letter to European Parliament Members
Dear European Parliament Member; For the last year Voice of the Copts has tried hard to keep you aware of incidents taking place in Egypt against the Coptic Christian minority. ...
Coptic Martyrs Blood Still Crying Out For Justice Nine Years Later (7) - Reasons Behind It
In the previous article I have mentioned that in the two months of December 1999 and January 2000, both Copts and Muslims were preparing to celebrate their holidays....Reflections on the Visit of His Exellency Ambassador Sameh Shoukry
It was a pleasure for the congregation receiving H.E. Ambassador Shoukry and the senior staff of the Egyptian Embassy. The meeting was very cordial and amiable. ...
Christian Girls Drugged and Sold As Sex Slaves in Pakistan
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has learned that two Christian girls in Pakistan have finally been rescued after two Muslim men kidnapped them two months ago, raped them repeatedly, forcibly converted them to Islam, and sold them to other men as sex slaves....The Crime of Adultery
Discriminatory Laws Between Muslims and non-Muslim Punishment of Offender Committing Adultery in a Muslim Home and Permitting the Act in a non-Muslim Home...
Egyptian police 'crucify' and rape Christians
During our research for information regarding the tragedy of El- Kosheh, we found an interesting article written by Christina Lamb. The article was published on Sunday October 25th 1998 on Telegraph.co.uk. Voice of the Copts is posting this article in memory of all those who were killed in Egypt and elsewhere for their faith. ...
Coptic Martyrs Blood Still Crying Out For Justice Nine Years Later (6) - Inside the Massacre
Although, the killing of twenty one Copts could not be considered mass murder by any measure, as this number of people could be easily die in any road traffic accident anywhere. However, “El-Kosheh’s” massacre, or slaughter, as some wish to call it, had different reasons to an overturned bus or a train accident. Such aspects and motivations were reflected upon in the last five reports published in the last weeks....
Coptic Martyrs Blood Still Crying Out For Justice Nine Years Later (5) - The Massacre
On January 7th, the Coptic Church in Egypt celebrates Christmas. Out of respect to the memory of those who lost their lives and those who lost their dear ones in that barbaric attack, I decided to stop "El-Kosheh" reports until after the holidays....
Imposing JIZYA on Christians to address poverty!!!
Dr. Amani Tawfiq, Professor at Mansoura (Egypt) University: "If Egypt wants to slowly but surely get out of its economic situation and address poverty in the country, the Jizya (head or poll tax that early Islamic rulers demanded from their non-Muslim subjects) has to be imposed on the Copts," declared in a press statement by a university professor, who is supposed to be in the highest of levels of the educated society, and who is also expected to be a civilized person due to her educational position....
Coptic Martyrs Blood Still Crying Out For Justice Nine Years Later (4)
Reaching the fourth part of "El -Kosheh" tragedy, we still did not find a concrete answer to the main question, who was behind what was going on in Egypt? In order to understand how an event likes that of January 2, 2000 could happen; one has to speculate about many contributing factors, mainly:...
Emanuel 4 years prays: "Papa Jesus let my Mummy get out and heal her"
Original article in Arabic by Rasha Noor,translated into English by Voice of the Copts. ...
Coptic Martyrs Blood Still Crying Out For Justice Nine Years Later (3)
In the past two articles, I tried to explain to our readers what happened in “El-Kosheh”, in 1998, when two copts were murdered, and how the Egyptian law enforcement authorities completely mishandled the matter, causing new, and very intense tensions between Copts and Muslims....
Coptic Martyrs Blood Still Crying Out For Justice Nine Years Later (2)
When reflecting on the events and circumstances which surrounded the massacre of "El-Kosheh", in the middle of 1989 (link below), one could summarize the prevailing situation in the following points:...
Coptic Martyrs Blood Still Crying Out For Justice Nine Years Later
The era of Hosni Mubarak will be remembered in modern Egyptian history as being the bloodiest era for the Copts and the worst for all Egyptians....عندما يصبح الصمت جريمة...
"أحشائى أحشائئ. توجعنى جدران قلبى. يئن فىّ قلبى لا أستطيع السكوت..." أرميا ٤:۱٩ درجنا على الإعتقاد أن المجرم هو الذى يرتكب جريمة مثل القتل أوالسرقة أو من يعتدى على الآخرين بالفعل أو القول. من يضغط على الزناد أو يطعن بالسكين أو يمد يده إلى ما لا حق فيه أو يتفوه بكلمات الإهانة أو الكذب أو شهادة الزور. ولكن من لم يتكلم بكلمة أو يرتكب بيده جرما هل يمكن أن يصبح مجرما؟ ...
H.R.H. King Abdullah Ben Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
Your Majesty; With the year 2008 coming to an end, many of us try to analyze what they have achieved during that year, in order to improve on their actions and plan for the coming New Year. ...
Terror Campaign on Mother of Abducted Toddler Parthenia and Human Rights Activists
"I am saying it out loud to everyone, the mother and I are threatened to be killed or being falsely charged of committing a crime by the Security Authorities and the Muslim Brotherhood. Should something happen to us, you know who did it" said Mr. Atef Helmy, journalist and activist in the Egyptian Human Rights Organization. Mr. Helmy added that even people who offered to help us, have received threats of being abducted from their homes and vanish forever, an attitude of using terror which he finds similar to that of the Mafia....FREE MARTHA
Martha Samuel, an Egyptian Muslim who converted to Christianity, formerly known as Zainab Said , was deported, together with her two children (Kirillos and Emmanuel,ages 4 and 2) on Monday, 12-22-2008 from Cairo's Khalifa Police Station to El-Kanater prison. She will spend there the rest of her 15 days incarceration period which started on 17-12-2008 pending the court case, in which she is charged of forging her passport to flee Egypt. ...Arab States or Mafia Regimes?
Ever since I was a child, certain questions occupied my mind; I was always curious about western leaders, political groups and even normal people....Multiculturalism
Is it possible for a society that is built upon pluralism of races, ethnicity, and cultures to have a unifying identity independent of its distinct racial, ethnic and cultural components? Is it unrealistic to believe in a unilateral cultural identity? Put another way, is E Pluribus Unum a viable national credo in today s world?...Letter to Egyptian Ambassadors in Rome, Vatican City and Washington DC
Your Excellency Ambassadors of Egypt,I am sending you this letter in my capacity as President of “Voice of the Copts”, an Organization registered in Italy and in the United States of America for the protection of the Copts (the Christians of Egypt) against the discriminations and the persecutions that our community has been suffering daily in Egypt for many years. ...Log in
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