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.

Multiculturalism, Islam and Child Sex Slavery

By | 2014-04-06T22:14:19-04:00 April 6th, 2014|Op-Eds|

Soeren Kern has just published an article about child sex slavery in the UK. He focuses on a new report about the large-scale “grooming” of non-Muslim girls (11-16) by  Rather than taking steps to protect British children, police, social workers, teachers, politicians, neighbors, downplayed the severity of the crimes..in order to avoid being accused of

Top US Senator to Abbas: Recognize Jewish State Now

By | 2014-04-06T21:53:40-04:00 April 6th, 2014|News|

Speaking Sunday, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez said that it was unacceptable for Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to continue refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. “Notwithstanding any hopes we may harbor, one thing is certain, set in stone: President Abbas must recognize the Jewish state as a Jewish state

Palestinians will Face ‘Tsunami’ of Legal Charges at Hague

By | 2014-04-06T17:03:19-04:00 April 6th, 2014|News|

Shurat Hadin, a non-governmental organization that operates against Palestinian terrorists through the courts, said it would lodge 'a tsunami' of criminal complaints against senior Palestinians with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is based in The Hague.   Following the signing of 15 international treaties by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in order to be accepted

UK Muslim Brotherhood Head Warns Ban Could Trigger Terrorism

By | 2014-04-06T16:42:53-04:00 April 6th, 2014|News|

The Muslim Brotherhood's most senior leader in the UK has threatened that a ban on the Islamist group in the UK could trigger terrorist attacks.   Ibrahim Mounir claimed that a British government probe into the Brotherhood's activities in the country was the result of pressure from Saudi Arabia - which has itself banned the

France: Far-Right Leader Forces Students to Eat Pork

By | 2014-04-06T13:18:57-04:00 April 6th, 2014|News|

School canteens will no longer offer non-pork meal options in towns where France's anti-immigration far-right National Front party won local elections, its leader Marine Le Pen said Monday.       Le Pen reignited debate on a sensitive issue about the substitution meals targeting mainly Muslim and Jewish pupils for whom pork is taboo.  

Cameron Orders Investigation into Muslim Brotherhood

By | 2014-04-06T13:03:41-04:00 April 6th, 2014|News|

British Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood over concerns the group is planning radical activities from a base in London, his Downing Street office said Tuesday, according to the AFP news agency.   The intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 have been tasked to gather information on the "philosophy and

Death or Dhimmitude

By | 2014-04-06T03:04:19-04:00 April 6th, 2014|Op-Eds|

Two cultures, two ways of life. In one, dying is an attribute and cruelty to children a sport. In the other, preserving the life force takes precedence over just about everything while children are nurtured, protected, and beloved.   Can these two cultures be reconciled?   When we think about tolerance and respecting different cultures

Human Rights Watch Urges Kerry to Delay Aid to Egypt

By | 2014-04-06T01:20:51-04:00 April 6th, 2014|News|

Human Rights Watch has called on the United States not to resume military assistance to Egypt until its military-backed government ends human rights abuses and holds violators accountable, reported Reuters.   In October, the United States announced it would cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Egypt over its displeasure with the military's

Did Mubarak Support Sisi for Egypt’s President?

By | 2014-04-05T23:31:52-04:00 April 5th, 2014|News|

Egypt’s former army chief and defense minister, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, received backing for his presidential bid from former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday, citing an Egyptian news website.   However, Mubarak’s lawyer later denied that his client had indeed backed Sisi.   According to Al Jazeera, Mubarak told a reporter from

Israel Sanctions PA Following Unilateral Move

By | 2014-04-05T14:00:58-04:00 April 5th, 2014|News|

Israel on Thursday informed the Palestinian Authority (PA) of a series of punitive measures against it, following the PA’s request to join 15 international conventions.   According to Kol Yisrael radio, these measures include a suspension of high-level contacts between ministers and CEOs, and any contacts with the PA will now be led by the