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.

String of bombings kill 101, injure 200 in Pakistan

By | 2013-01-11T22:49:31-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

At least 101 people were killed in bombings in two cities in Pakistan on Thursday, officials said, with most casualties caused by sectarian attacks in the city of Quetta.   Two coordinated explosions killed at least 69 people and injured more than 100 in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on Thursday evening, said Deputy

Islamic group practicing Jihad on San Francisco buses

By | 2013-01-11T21:45:35-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

CAIR is attempting to reclaim the meaning of the controversial term in its My Jihad campaign that uses billboards on city buses to redefine what it perceives as American misconceptions of an Islamic practice.   “A common misconception of the word ‘jihad’ is that it means armed struggle or holy war,” CAIR Bay Area Chapter

Largest Anti-Muslim Ad Campaign Hits NY Subway System

By | 2013-01-11T21:17:07-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

The group behind last year’s controversial anti-Jihadist advertisements that appeared throughout the New York subway system is planning what is expected to be its largest campaign to date.   The American Freedom Defense Initiative purchased space next to 228 clocks in 39 New York subway stations for ads with an image of the burning World

Al Jazeera as Voice of Qatar (as Voice of Muslim Brotherhood)

By | 2013-01-11T20:35:55-04:00 January 11th, 2013|Op-Eds|

Before we heard that Al Gore's Current TV had rejected Glenn Beck's The Blaze TV as a buyer for, as Beck put it, "legacy" reasons and selected Al Jazeera as its white knight instead, Fjordman passed along this December 25 Deutche Welle interview with Aktham Suliman, Al Jazeera's former Berlin correspondent. Suliman argues that Al

New Egypt central bank chief says not worried about currency

By | 2013-01-11T19:57:43-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

Egypt’s newly named central bank chief sought to reassure investors on Thursday there was no need to be worried about the situation on the Egyptian currency market, saying the bank had “all the tools” to intervene if it saw speculation.   Hisham Ramez will be taking the reins in the midst of Egypt’s most acute

How We Win

By | 2013-01-11T11:23:52-04:00 January 11th, 2013|Op-Eds|

We’ve won 16 out of 17 mosque cases that we’ve fought — a 94.11% success rate. That could be beginner’s luck, right? Maybe we just keep stumbling on four-leafed clovers.   So I thought I’d drill down into one of our recent wins where the evidence is online.   Please see the Brent case, here,

Archeologists in Egypt unearth 3000-year-old tombs

By | 2013-01-11T11:00:04-04:00 January 11th, 2013|Archeology and History|

Egypt’s Antiquities Minister says Italian archaeologists have unearthed tombs over 3000 years old in the ancient city of Luxor.   Mohammed Ibrahim says the discovery was made beneath the mortuary temple of King Amenhotep II, seventh Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty who reigned from 1427 to 1401 B.C. The temple is located on the western

Abbas Allows Armed Terrorists in Public

By | 2013-01-11T10:45:04-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has allowed armed terrorists to publicly march and fire into the air within the areas he controls in Judea and Samaria.   Kol Yisrael radio reported Thursday that about 20 members of Abbas's Fatah movement marched in the Balata area of Shechem on Thursday afternoon, firing into the air. A

Mercy to the Guilty Is Cruelty to the Innocent

By | 2013-01-11T02:08:15-04:00 January 11th, 2013|Op-Eds|

Someone wrote in reply to the “Un-Merry Christmas to the Christians from Islam” newsletter: Oh My God. How wrong can you be? Please have more knowledge before you say anything. Most of what you wrote about Islam is wrong. Islam has several verses which contribute to peace on earth and tolerance to all. Some people