Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

About Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

Dr. Ashraf Ramelah is the founder and president of Voice of the Copts, a human rights nonprofit organization 501 (c) (3). The organization has offices in Italy and the United States. Dr. Ramelah is dedicated to the Coptic cause and believes that his life’s mission is to speak up for the oppressed Copts who cannot speak up for themselves. When he is not meeting with political figures and policy makers, Dr. Ramelah spends his time travelling throughout the country giving talks about the Coptic issue and explaining to the West the oppression against the Copts in Egypt. Dr. Ramelah was invited to address the European Parliament (2010) and to be the keynote speaker in the Italian Parliament (2011) on the issue of Coptic persecution in Egypt. He has done various interviews with Italian newspapers and appears frequently in the Italian and Arab Media. Dr. Ramelah is a featured author at Arutz Sheva, American Thinker, Family Security Matters.com, Canada Free Press and others. Dr. Ramelah is well known to the Egyptian government due to his advocacy for the Egyptian Copts as well as for Voice of the Copts’ lawsuit against them on behalf of Muslim convert to Christianity Mr. Hegazy and his family in 2009-2010. Ashraf Ramelah also appears as an entry in the Coptic History Encyclopedia (http://www.coptichistory.org/new_page_5260.htm). Dr. Ramelah, himself a Copt, was born in Cairo, Egypt. At the age of 17, he travelled to Italy to study architecture. He graduated with a doctorate in architecture from La Sapienza – Universita’ Degli Studi di Roma,Italy. His special study is restoration of old monuments and history of architecture. His career as an architect took him to work and live in Italy, Saudi Arabia, Gabon and the USA. His personal interests are Egyptology and Coptic history in the period after the Arab invasion of Egypt in 651 AD. Voice of the Copts is dedicated to bringing fair, correct and balanced information to the entire world regarding Copts and Christians in countries with an Arab-Muslim majority.

Sweden’s FM: Israel is Irritating its Allies

By | 2015-01-20T02:56:10-04:00 January 20th, 2015|News|

Sweden's foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, said on Friday that Israel had overreacted to her country’s recognition of “Palestine”, and that it had irritated close allies with its reaction.   "It is unacceptable how they have been talking about us and everybody else," Margot Wallstrom said in an interview with the daily Dagens Nyheter and quoted

Angry Syrian Protesters Burn ‘Je suis Charlie’ Poster

By | 2015-01-20T02:36:02-04:00 January 20th, 2015|News|

Syrian protesters in a rebel-held area of Aleppo on Thursday burned a poster expressing support for satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, accusing it of stoking Muslim anger, AFP reports.   Dozens of people marched in the battered district of Salaheddin, in the southwest of Syria's second city, against Charlie Hebdo's new cartoon, which depicts the

ISIS Shows its Most Popular Execution Style is Crucifixion

By | 2015-01-20T02:17:50-04:00 January 20th, 2015|Islam|

The brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization that has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria continues to impose Islamic Sharia law sprinkled with generous helping of executions - one of its favorite methods, crucifixion, was put on display this week in rare form.   In the last two days, ISIS terrorists crucified 15 Syrian

Nasrallah Vows Attack on Israel ‘For Syria Strikes’

By | 2015-01-20T01:59:32-04:00 January 20th, 2015|News|

Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist organization, threatened to attack Israel on Thursday, citing the pretext of reported Israeli airstrikes on missiles in Syria headed for Hezbollah.   Nasrallah, who spoke in an television interview with Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen to be broadcast Thursday night, said his Iran-proxy Shi'ite terrorist group is well armed and

Anybody in the Mood for Another Islamic Country?

By | 2015-01-20T01:36:37-04:00 January 20th, 2015|Op-Eds|

Has anyone at all woken up?   Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Arab leader who giggled his way through the solemn anti-terror rally in Paris, is ready to try the UN again.   He wants recognition of “Palestine” as an independent state (which it never was).   Should he get the required votes this time around

British Press Bans ‘Pigs’ to not Offend Muslims

By | 2015-01-19T01:35:22-04:00 January 19th, 2015|News|

British politicians on Thursday criticized publisher Oxford University Press over its advice to omit pigs and sausages from books for children sold abroad, in a politically correct attempt not to "offend" the Muslim or Jewish communities.   The existence of the recommendations was revealed during a debate on BBC Radio 4 on freedom of expression

The Third World War

By | 2015-01-19T00:58:09-04:00 January 19th, 2015|Op-Eds|

My fellow Europeans. It is very sad to bury so many young innocent people, murdered by extremist Islamists just because they criticized Mohammed in cartoons or were born Jewish.   The murderers are not just 'terrorists'. They are murderers. The difference between them and other murderers is the purpose behind their evil deeds. They don't

Paris Hit and Run Yet Another Terror Attack?

By | 2015-01-19T00:12:52-04:00 January 19th, 2015|News|

Paris could be facing yet another terror attack Thursday, officials said, after a policewoman was run down and injured outside French President Francois Hollande’s residence, according to French media.   While police have not said whether they are treating it as a terror attack, witnesses told French media that the driver had run the policewoman

What the West Must Do In Order to Survive

By | 2015-01-19T00:00:15-04:00 January 19th, 2015|Op-Eds|

If Europe does not do the following immediately, the birthplace of the Western enterprise will soon be conquered by barbarism.     First, the European Union must dissolve itself. Borders and passports must return. No one should be allowed to travel unhindered from European country to European country.   Second, each European country must pass