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One dead as thousands of Muslims storm the Al-Azraa Church during attacks on Coptic Christians

The media (and even some blogs) are descrbing this as "sectarina". It's not. It's Islamic supremacism. It's jihad. It's persecuting, oppressing and slaughtering Christians under the sharia. 

Two Christian Churches in Egypt Attacked By Muslims This Week

 

One person was killed in Alexandria Friday night when thousands of Muslims tried to storm the Al-Azraa Church during clashes with Coptic Christians.

Al-Abram reported:

One person has died and dozens injured in clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians in Egypt’s north coast city of Alexandria, the Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Clashes erupted Friday night in Al-Geish Street in western Alexandria, after a fight started between two young men, one Copt and the other Muslim, when the Copt allegedly sexually harassed the latter’s sister. The parties involved in the fight reportedly used Molotov cocktails and machine guns.

The incident left one person, Sherif Sedki Saad, dead by a heart-attack during the clashes, and dozens others injured.

Nasser El-Abd, Alexandria’s investigations director, said that Central Security Forces prevented the crowds from storming into Al-Azraa Church in Al-Geish Street where clashes have been taking place. Security forces have also spread in the area to restore order.

According to Reuters, police arrested eight people after two hours of fighting.

The situation is currently reported to be calm in the area.

This was the second attack this week on a Christian Church in Egypt.

 

Washington Post notices sharia in Egypt: "Coptic Christian latest target of blasphemy frenzy"

Pigs must be flying. The Washington Post actually removed their lips from Morsi's sphincter for a moment to report on the vicious persecution and oppression of Christians in Egypt. Of course, they try to blame the ultra-super-duper-'conservative' Salafis when, in fact, it is sharia. It is Islamic law. In the next sentence the WaPo admits that, "criminalizing blasphemy was enshrined in the country’s Islamist-backed constitution that was adopted in December." Uh, so it's not just the religious Salafis imposing and enforcing the sharia.

Further, despite WaPo's attempts to equivocate, there is no comparison between the status of Christians before and after Mubarak. WaPo's misleading reportage on this further harms their already diminished journalistic credibility. Ask non-Muslims living in Egypt if they'd like Mubarak back. In. a. heartbeat.

The Washington Post continually self-enforces the sharia. They scrub and whitewash the most brutal and extreme ideology on the face of the earth. Worse, they smear, demonize and marginalize the few who speak out against these horrific human rights abuses. It is because of the tacit support of Western media and the political elite that these savages have risen from the ashes where they so rightfully belong.

(Ibrahim Zayed/ Associated Press ) - Abdel-Nour, the father of 24-year-old school teacher Dimyana Abdel-Nour, who is accused of insulting Islam while teaching fourth graders history of religions, speaks on the phone to a live television show about his daughter from his home in southern Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Freed on Tuesday on a 20,000-pound (nearly 3,000 dollars) bail after nearly a week in detention, Abdel-Nour is due to stand trial later this month. Criminalizing blasphemy was enshrined in the country’s new Islamist-backed constitution adopted in December.

 "Coptic Christian latest target of blasphemy frenzy under Islamist-ruled Egypt" Washington Post, May 18, 2013

CAIRO — The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, “All except the Prophet Muhammad.”

The case against Dimyana Abdel-Nour in southern Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor began when parents of three of her pupils claimed that their children, aged 10, complained their teacher showed disgust when she spoke of Islam in class. According to the parents, Abdel-Nour, 24, told the children that Pope Shenouda, who led the Egyptian Coptic Church until his death last year, was better than the Prophet Muhammad.

Blasphemy charges were not uncommon in Egypt under the now-ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak’s regime, but there has been a surge in such cases in recent months, according to rights activists. The trend is widely seen as a reflection of the growing power and confidence of Islamists, particularly the ultraconservative Salafis.

“Salafis are the engineers of these stories,” said Abdel-Hamid Hassan, a Muslim and the head of the parents’ council at the primary school where Abdel-Nour teaches. Hassan’s daughter was among several students who denied any wrongdoing by Abdel-Nour.

“If the pope himself came here from the Vatican and tried to spread Christianity among us, he would fail. We learn about our religion starting from the age of 5,” he said, alluding to the allegation against Abdel-Nour, since withdrawn, of “spreading Christianity.”

Criminalizing blasphemy was enshrined in the country’s Islamist-backed constitution that was adopted in December.

Writers, activists and even a famous television comedian have been accused of blasphemy since then. But Christians seem to be the favorite target of Islamist prosecutors. Their fragile cases — the main basis of the case against Abdel-Nour’s case the testimony of children — are greeted with sympathy from courtroom judges with their own religious bias or who fear the wrath of Islamists, according to activists.

The result is a growing number of Egyptians, including many Christians, who have been convicted and sent to prison for blasphemy.

In at least one celebrated case, the offense was clearly provocative: Seven Coptic Christians living in the United States received death sentences in absentia for producing an anti-Islam film that sparked waves of protests by ultraconservative Islamists in front of U.S. embassies across the Arab world on Sept. 11, 2012.

But rights groups say the vast majority of blasphemy cases are merely attempts by Islamists to crack down on their opponents.

“Islamists are using the law to hunt down critics to the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Christians are the weakest,” said Medhat Klada, a Switzerland-based Coptic Christian activist whose organization Copts United tracks such cases. “The numbers of Christians implicated is unprecedented,” he added.

Many believe that restrictions on freedoms are more severe under Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s first freely elected president, than during his predecessor’s 29-year reign. 

Sharia in Action: Christian Teacher in Egypt Accused of 'Defaming Islam' Goes on Hunger Strike

More of the most vicious and inhumane system of governance on the face of the earth:

Egyptian Christian Teacher Accused of 'Defaming Islam' Goes on Hunger Strike AINA

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(AINA) -- The latest victim in the series of defamation of Islam accusations against Christians is a Coptic school teacher, 24-year-old Ms Demiana Ebeid Abdelnour, who teaches social science at a primary school in Tout, Luxor. Demiana went on hunger strike two days after Luxor prosecution detained her on May 8 for "defamation of Islam." Parents of three school children accused her of defamation of Islam and insulting Mohammad.

Yesterday prosecution extended her detention for a further 15 days. It was reported that she was not allowed to be transferred to hospital from prison based on the report of the prison physician. The teacher's union in Luxor said that all investigations confirmed the innocence of Demiana, and that they have assembled a team of lawyers to defend her.

On April 8, 2012 Demiana gave a lesson at Shaikh Sultan school, one of the three schools she was mandated to give lessons in, on the religious life at the time of the pharaohs and polytheism , and how Pharaoh Akhenaten adopted monotheism. This lesson touched on the three heavenly religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam, according to the curriculum. Present during the class session was the subject inspector who left 10 minutes before the end of the session.

"Moderate" "Palestinian" official: "I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning"

With Obama in the White House, their dreams just might come true. He unleashed the Islamic supremacists in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, etc., while doing nothing to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. Does anyone think that Iran wouldn't share it with Islamic jihad in Gaza? Iran always conducts its war campaign through proxies.

"Moderate" "Palestinian" official: "I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning" (thanks to Robert Spencer)

Note that these are "moderate" PA officials -- members of Abbas's government -- the one that Obama tells the Israelis is a true partner for peace. "Senior PA official praises murderer and another official swears: 'If we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning,'" by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik for Palestinian Media Watch, May 8: Two senior Palestinian Authority officials praised the use of violence against Israel last week.

Senior PA official Sultan Abu Al-Einein expressed his open support for the murderer who killed Evyatar Borovsky, an Israeli who was stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorist Salam Al-Zaghal while he was waiting for a ride.

Abu Al-Einein, who was until recently an advisor holding the rank of minister to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and who was subsequently appointed Head of the Palestinian Council for NGO Affairs by Abbas, honored the murderer:

"We salute the heroic fighter, the self-sacrificing Salam Al-Zaghal."

Abu Al-Einein also praised the murderer and his killing with the words:

"He insisted on defending his honor, so he went against the settler and killed him. Blessings to the breast that nursed Salam Al-Zaghal."

The audience applauded and whistled at this statement.

Last week, Palestinian Media Watch reported that only hours after the murder, the administrator of Fatah's official Facebook page glorified Al-Zaghal as a "hero."

Another senior PA official, Jibril Rajoub, also praised the use of violence against Israel. During an interview on a Lebanese TV channel, the host referred to "the negotiations game" with Israel, and Rajoub expressed the view that negotiations are held because the Palestinians lack military strength:

"I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning."

Jibril Rajoub is the Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and Chairman of the PA Olympic Committee. The interview was broadcast on the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV channel and also published on Rajoub's Facebook page on May 2, 2013.

Senior PA officials often state that avoiding violent confrontation or war with Israel is only temporarily, due to the PA's inability to take on such a conflict. They claim that negotiations with Israel are the right course of action for now, because conditions are not right for violence...

New video shows Egyptian police allowing deadly attack on Coptic cathedral

Remember, Obama pushed hard for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He owns this. And please spare me that he couldn't know. Those of us in the counter jihad movement knew. I warned of the Muslim Brotherhood coup in January 2011.

And it's not as if he doesn't know now. And yet he persists in empowering and supporting the most oppressive and brutal Islamic regimes on the face of the earth. He is setting the stage for a bloody worldwide clash of civilizations. These savages should be relegated to the dustbin of history. Instead, the leader of the free world has turned over whole countries, and soon continents as well.

Obama and U.S. Ambassador to Egypt are "die-hard defenders of the Brotherhood-Salafist Islamist project"

New video shows Egyptian police allowing deadly attack on Coptic cathedral FOX News

Newly-emerged video appears to show Egyptian police standing idly by - and even helping attackers during a deadly assault earlier this month on a Coptic cathedral where Christians were mourning five men killed in an earlier clash with Muslims.

The video shot April 7 and first obtained by MidEast Christian News, shows a men shooting guns, wielding machetes and hurling stones and possibly Molotov cocktails as mourners carry caskets out of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbassia District of Cairo as uniformed police watch, unmoving. At one point, a police officer appears to help a gunman take aim at a courtyard full of mourners who had spilled out of the church. The attack left two Copts dead and another 84 people injured, including 11 police officers.

"There is a general feeling among citizens about the absence of law and the prestige of the state."

- Report on religious vilence in Egypt

When it was over, the only arrests made were of four Copts. Christians, who were already outraged over a three-day attack that began April 4 attack in Khosous which saw the four men killed and homes, a nursery and a church burned, said the events show how elusive justice is for Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the nation's population.

"Two Copts were killed during the attack on the Cathedral; four more died in Khosous, yet not one of their attackers has been arrested," said Andrew Johnston, advocacy director for Christian Solidarity Worldwide. “These arrests come at a time when the Coptic community in Egypt is still coming to terms with an unprecedented attack on the headquarters of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the violence in Khosous. Such discrepancies in the discharge of justice contribute to impunity, and can only foster more sectarianism.”

Tensions between Egypt's Christians and the majority Sunni Muslims have grown dramatically since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011 and replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood-led government of Mohammed Morsi.

"There is a general feeling among citizens about the absence of law and the prestige of the state," said a report released Wednesday by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights. "Such a feeling could push the citizens to the violence and sectarianism without fearing from any deterrence, " reads a passage from the report.

"The recent incident proved the shrinking of the role of the state to control the actions of the individuals especially those people who think that they talk on the behalf of God," the report continued. "There is a need for implementing the law strictly to treat such incidents.”

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Supporters filmed using firearms at demo and brutally beating men

More of the vicious consequences of Obama's un-American, anti-freedom support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Obama owns the Egyptian catastrophe. And he continues to send billions, F16s and arms to these savages.

 Thousands of jihadists protesters clashed with pro-freedom supporters as they rallied on Friday to demand "a purge of Egypt's judiciary, a sign of rising tension between the Islamist government and legal organs seen as a redoubt of old regime influence." The Brotherhood wants complete control, complete submission, complete sharia.

Islamist protesters filmed using firearms Ahram online

19 April: Clashes broke out on Friday afternoon following an Islamist protest against the judiciary at Cairo's High Court.

The demonstration was called for by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and other Islamist forces.

Violent clashes broke out between the Islamist protesters and unknown opponents, largely consisting of an exchange of rock throwing.

Ahram Online did, however. capture footage of two men on the Islamists side using firearms.

Police eventually intervened in the clashes. Footage shows the police talking with protesters on the Islamist side of the clashes, and firing towards their opponents.

The video also shows at least two men who were caught by the Islamist protesters and severely beaten in full view of the police.

#MyJihad in Egypt: Muslims Set Christians on Fire with Molotov cocktails

Exraordinary evil. Where is the outrage? Dhimmi rabbis like Michael White feign outrage at my appearance at the Great Neck synagogue this Sunday and call my website and my work "hate speech." But they say nothing about the most brutal and oppressive ideology on the face of the earth.

Reform Rabbi White calls posting this news story and thousands like it "hate speech"? He says nothing of what is happening in these news stories. But his tongue is flapping condemnations of me. Where is Rabbi White's outrage over the persecution, oppression and slaughter of non-Muslims under the sharia? 

Egypt: Muslims burn Christians with Molotov cocktails  Jihadwatch

This is the image of the Muslim persecution of Christians, Egypt, April 2013. "Fiery clashes in Cairo," from AFP, April 9:

After clashes between Muslims and members of Egypt’s Christian Copt minority left at least seven dead last week, these two young Copts were targeted Sunday outside St. Mark’s cathedral in Cairo’s Abbassiya district by unknown assailants wielding Molotov cocktails.

 

#MyJihad in Egypt: Muslims attack Coptic Cathedral in Cairo

Dott. Architetto Ashraf Ramelah, President of Voice of the Copts and Board Member of the SION Advisory Council, send me this report of the latest Muslim attack on Christians in Egypt:

Muslims attack Coptic Cathedral in Cairo

On the afternoon of Sunday, April 7, Egyptian police surrounded and protected Saint Mark’s Coptic Cathedral of Cairo, the headquarters of the Coptic Pope, after four hours of attacks on the church by Muslims throwing Molotov cocktails, rocks, and firearms, and where Christians gathered to mourn their dead.

A liturgy was being held for eight murdered Christians resulting from a bloodthirsty rampage by Muslim vigilantes three days earlier on Friday afternoon. Muslims took revenge upon an entire Christian neighborhood in reaction to an incident a few hours earlier where a Christian male defended the life of a Christian girl under assault by a Muslim.

Now inside the church, Bishop Rafael spoke to the Christian body, “… We believe in Heaven’s justice, and the teaching of Jesus Christ reveals to us that the blood of the Martyrs will not be forgotten by God.”

The sequence of these earlier events took place in the streets of Al Khosous just outside Cairo, a town of about three million with a Christian majority, where first an attempt to stop a would-be rapist or kidnapper flared into a fight between the Muslim attacker and a brave Good Samaritan (the Christian man). In a fierce defense of the innocent Coptic girl, knowing that all too often such assaults mean a Christian female will never see her family and home again, the Christian man fatally wounded the Muslim assailant.

Within hours of this horrible incident, revenge stirred in Muslim neighborhoods drummed up by the family of the dead Muslim man. A general state of panic and terror ensued. Groups of Muslims attacked a Baptist Church setting it on fire. Carrying weapons and Molotov Cocktails Muslims destroyed the homes and businesses of Christians and looted the contents.

Reuters: "Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt"

 

 

"Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt," Reuters, Ashraf Fahim, Reuters (additional reporting by Omar Fahmy and Yasmine Saleh)

I imagine that Mr. Fahim would have written the holocaust up under the headline, "Six Million Germans killed in Nazi-Jewish Clashes." 

You have to read between the lines in these news reports. As I have previously noted in prior posts at Atlas, this kind of propagandized reportage is part of an ever-widening and continuing trend: big news-gathering organizations like AP and Reuters have Muslim stringers and reporters write up these stories. And their Islamic narrative is wildly pervasive. Every news organization, broadcast news, down to your local newspaper, pick up these news reports from AP and Reuters.

Christians in Egypt after Mubarak are a persecuted, tormented minority. Daily reports here and at Jihadwatch, The Religion of Peace, The Counter Jihad report on and document the creed apartheid, beatings, rapes and kidnapping of Christians by Muslims. Christian areas are terrorized, houses and churches set ablaze. But in this report by Ashraf Fahim, the genocide is described as Muslim-Christian clashes.

Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt By Ashraf Fahim, Reuters

EL KHUSUS, Egypt (Reuters) - Five Egyptians were killed and eight wounded in clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town near Cairo, security sources said on Saturday, in some of the worst sectarian violence in Egypt for months.
Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hardline Islamists repressed under his rule.
Four Christian Copts and one Muslim were killed when members of both communities started fighting and shooting at each other in El Khusus north of the Egyptian capital, the sources said. State news agency MENA put the death toll at four.
An angry crowd smashed shops belonging to Christians, residents said. A Reuters reporter saw a burned-out Coptic day care center and several damaged shops belonging to Christian traders. An apartment inhabited by Muslims was also burned.
Residents said the violence broke out on Friday when a group of Christian children were drawing on a wall of a Muslim religious institute.
A Reuters reporter saw what looked like a swastika drawn on the wall. Muslim residents said it had offended them because it looked like a cross.
"I saw the kids drawing on the wall after afternoon prayers so I grabbed them and told them to remove what they'd just written," said Mahmoud Mahmoud al-Alfi, a Muslim resident.
Then another man arrived and started beating the children, drawing a large crowd, he said. The situation escalated when someone drew a gun and fired into the air, killing one boy with a stray bullet.
"Suddenly the area was full of weapons," Alfi said, while weeping Muslim women sat nearby in front of a house, showing pictures of a man they said had been killed during the clashes.
The president's office expressed condolences to the victims and vowed to fight any sectarian violence.
"The presidency ... totally rejects any attempt against the unity and cohesiveness of Egyptian society and will decisively confront any attempt to spark sectarian strife among Egyptian people, Muslim and Christian," according to a statement.
Muslim leaders were also quick to condemn the sectarian violence which comes as Egypt struggles with a severe economic crisis and high inflation after two years of political upheaval.
Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, of Egypt's leading Islamic authority Al-Azhar, urged measures to prevent the situation from escalating and to "preserve the national character which characterises the Egyptian people, Muslims and Christians," MENA said.
"The sectarian riots which happened in El Khusus are unacceptable and grave," Saad al-Katatni, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood political party, said on his Facebook website. "There are some who want to set Egypt ablaze and create crises."
President Mohamed Mursi, a Brotherhood leader elected in June, has promised to protect the rights of Copts, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's 84 million people.
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Dhimmi State Department Submits to Muslim Brotherhood Demands: the U.S. Embassy yanks its Twitter account

America in the 21st century: craven, fat and stupid. This is beyond the pale. We don't bow like Obama. And we don't restrict free speech in adherence to the sharia. The vicious and primitive Muslim Brotherhood is leading the stooge in the White House around by the nose.

The Obama administration is making every freedom lover and American patriot ashamed of their country.

'Egyptian Jon Stewart': U.S. Embassy in Cairo Criticized for Tweeting 'Daily Show' Video The Hollywood Reporter April 5, 2013 (thanks to ygalg)

In response to the criticism, the embassy yanked down its account on Wednesday at the request of Cairo-based American ambassador Anne Patterson, The New York Times reported. Her decision raised eyebrows in Washington with the State Department urging Patterson to restore the account "lest it appear that the U.S. government is caving to the online pressure."

When the feed resurfaced, the tweet that seemingly endorsed Stewart's Youssef rant had been removed. During a press briefing on Wednesday, State Department representative Victoria Nulandsaid: "Embassy Cairo’s Twitter feed is back up now. We’ve had some glitches with the way the Twitter feed has been managed. This is regrettably not the first time."

#IslamicApartheid in Egypt: Jihadists Kidnappers Target Christians in Egypt

"Security chaos" is so blame. Uh, no, the supremacism inherent in Islam is to blame: the persecution, oppression and forced covnersion of Christians in Egypt and all Muslim countries under sharia.

Christians, church leaders and rights activists ultimately blame the atmosphere created by the rising power of  devout Muslims. Jihadists are influenced by the rhetoric of radical clerics depicting Egypt's Christian minority as second-class citizens (dhimmis).

The NY Times actually ran this story and *shocka* didn't blame Israel.

"Kidnappers Target Christians in Egyptian Province" By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS via The NY Times, April 4, 2013 ( thanks to Lookmann)

MATAI, Egypt (AP) — Ezzat Kromer's resistance to his kidnappers did not last long. One of the masked gunmen fired a round between his feet as he sat behind the wheel of his car and said with chilling calm, "The next one will go into your heart."

The Christian gynecologist says he was bundled into his abductors' vehicle, forced to lie under their feet in the back seat for a 45-minute ride, then dumped in a small cold room while his kidnappers contacted his family over a ransom.

For the next 27 hours, he endured beatings, insults and threats to his life, while blindfolded, a bandage sealing his mouth and cotton balls in his ears.

Kromer's case is part of a dramatic rise of kidnappings targeting Christians, including children, in Egypt's southern province of Minya, home to the country's largest concentration of Christians but also a heartland for Islamist hard-liners.

The kidnappings are mostly blamed on criminal gangs, which operate more freely amid Egypt's collapse in security since the 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Crime has risen in general across Egypt, hitting Muslims as well. But the wave of kidnappings in Minya has specifically targeted Christians, and victims, church leaders and rights activists ultimately blame the atmosphere created by the rising power of hard-line Islamists.

They contend criminals are influenced by the rhetoric of radical clerics depicting Egypt's Christian minority as second-class citizens and see Christians as fair game, with authorities less likely to investigate crimes against the community.

Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssuf Gets it Wrong

Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssuf Attacks MB Rule in Egypt: "They Are Driving People Away from Islam" (thanks to Ygalg)

As he says in the video above, Youssuf and his family voted for the Muslim Brotherhood. What did they expect? Sheik Qaradawi was banned from Egypt with good reason. They felt sorry for the Muslim Brotherhood? Who's sorry now?

Here's where the soon-to-be-arrested satirist gets it wrong -- that is Islam. What he describes as driving people away from Islam is ....... Islam. Youssuf cites Muslims in the West as the example for Egyptian Muslims to "live and let live." But live and let live is a Western concept, and Muslims in the West are living under Western law (not sharia law), so they are free to build mosques and practice their religion, because that is a basic tenet of Western civilization. But as the Muslim population grows in Western countries, so does the demand for Islamic supremacist accommodation. Jew-hatred spikes, sharia zones (no-go zones) pop up, and demands for sharia -- enforcement of  blasphemy laws, for example (do not offend Islam)  --  become a rallying cry.

Bassem Youssuf has it ass backwards. The goal for Islamic supremacists and jihadists in the West is exactly what is happening in Egypt, Gaza, Lebanon, Tunisia, Libya, the UK, Bangladesh, Morocco, et al. Secular Muslims have no say in this. They have no theological leg to stand on, which is why there is a warrant out for the arrest of Bassem Youssuf.

Related: Egypt Presidency reprimands US Embassy for posting episode of The Daily Show mocking Morsi

Whiplash alert: Obama Administration accuses Egypt of stifling freedom of expression

This from the man who, in his address at the UN, said that the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. This from the man who blamed the attacks on our embassies in Libya and Egypt on the freedom of speech. This from the man who blamed the murder of our Ambassador and three attaches on free speech.

Early stages of dementia in the White House:

Staggering hypocrisy: Obama Administration accuses Egypt of stifling freedom of expression Jihadwatch

Now wait a minute. Remember that in 2011, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 16/18, with the support of the Obama administration. It called upon Western states to pass laws that would criminalize "defamation of religion" – i.e., criticism of Islam. Remember also that right after the Benghazi jihad massacre, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed to have the producer of a video about Muhammad arrested and prosecuted -- and he is still the only person in prison for those attacks, solely for the crime of exercising his freedom of speech. And those are just two of the many ways in which the Obama Administration has shown itself to be a foe of the First Amendment. So either Nuland is going to come in for a serious behind-the-scenes rebuke from her superiors, or the Administration is trying to cover its anti-free speech tracks.

"US accuses Egypt of stifling freedom of expression," from Middle East Online, April 2 (thanks to Twostellas):

WASHINGTON - The United States on Monday voiced concern over freedom of expression in Egypt following the arrest of a comedian for allegedly insulting President Mohamed Morsi and Islam.

US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the detention and release of television satirist Bassem Youssef was evidence of a "disturbing trend" of mounting restrictions on freedom of expression.

Youssef, whose weekly program mercilessly critiques Egypt’s rulers, was released on Sunday and ordered to pay 15,000 Egyptian pounds (around $2,200) pending investigation into the complaints.

"We are concerned that the public prosecutor appears to have questioned and then released on bail Bassem Youssef on charges of insulting Islam and President Morsi," Nuland said.

"This, coupled with recent arrest warrants issued for other political activists, is evidence of a disturbing trend of growing restrictions on the freedom of expression."

Youssef is accused of offending Islam by "making fun of the prayer ritual" and of insulting Morsi by "making fun of his international standing."

Dubbed the Egyptian answer to American television's Jon Stewart, Youssef has repeatedly poked fun at those in power and became a household name in the Arab world's most populous country.

Several of Youssef's colleagues in the Egyptian media also face charges of insulting the president, casting doubt on Morsi's stated commitment to freedom of expression -- a key demand of the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

"We have concerns that freedom of expression is being stifled," Nuland added. "This is something that came up when Secretary (John) Kerry was in Egypt. He raised human rights concerns, including freedom of the press, with President Morsi, and we will continue to raise these concerns."

 

“Islam’s flag will be raised above the White House”

Just in case you were still unclear as to the caliph's objective. This dovetails quote nicley with Iran's proclamation today, "Iran: "American empire" will fall in 2013.

This, against the backdrop of "normalizing" relations between Iran and Egypt after 34 years.

“Islam’s flag will be raised above the White House” Jihadwatch

A video recording from a recent Friday sermon in Egypt, where the imam swears to Allah several times that the flag of Islam will be raised above the White House of America, recently appeared on the Arabic Internet. According to the imam preaching, all Muslims need do is be patient and continue working towards this goal.

#MyJihad in Egypt: Jihadists "tried to hack through internet ocean-floor cables in attack that could have taken ENTIRE continent offline"

Relentless.

Three Egyptian divers ´tried to hack through internet ocean-floor cables in attack that could have taken ENTIRE continent offline´ Daily Mail [UK] via Lucianne (thanks to Katherine)

Three men have been arrested by the Egyptian army for apparently trying to cut through an undersea Internet cable. A patrol stopped a fishing boat near the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and arrested three divers, an army spokesman said on his official Facebook page. It is believed they were trying to cut through an SEA-ME-WE 4 undersea cable--one of the main connections between Asia and Europe, running from France to Malaysia and linking Italy, north Africa, the middle east and south Asia. If the men had been successful, experts warned they could have taken an ´entire continent offline´

Egyptian mosque turned into house of torture for Christians after Muslim Brotherhood protest

As Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said, "the mosques are our barracks ....."

Where are the myriad American Muslim groups (so quick to denounce our ads of truth) condemning these acts of jihad? *crickets chirping*

More of the catastrophic consequences of Obama's killer foreign policy:

Egyptian mosque turned into house of torture for Christians after Muslim Brotherhood protest FOX News, March 26, 2013 (thanks to Van)

 

• Amir Ayad lies in a hospital bed after he was allegedly beaten by Islamic hardliners who stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo. (MidEast Christian News)

Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into torture chamber for Christians who had been demonstrating against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the latest case of violent persecution that experts fear will only get worse.

Such stories have become increasingly common as tensions between Egypt’s Muslims and Copts mount, but in the latest case, mosque officials corroborated much of the account and even filed a police report. Demonstrators, some of whom were Muslim, say they were taken from the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in suburban Cairo to a nearby mosque on Friday and tortured for hours by hard-line militia members.

“There is no longer anything to hold them back. The floodgates are open.”

- Shaul Gabbay, University of Denver professor on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

“They accompanied me to one of the mosques in the area and I discovered the mosque was being used to imprison demonstrators and torture them,” Amir Ayad, a Coptic who has been a vocal protester against the regime, told MidEast Christian News from a hospital bed.

Ayad said he was beaten for hours with sticks before being left for dead on a roadside. Amir’s brother, Ezzat Ayad, said he received an anonymous phone call at 3 a.m. Saturday, with the caller saying his brother had been found near death and had been taken to the ambulance.

“He underwent radiation treatment that proved that he suffered a fracture in the bottom of his skull, a fracture in his left arm, a bleeding in the right eye, and birdshot injuries,” Ezzat Ayad said.

Officials at the Bilal ibn Rabah Mosque said radical militias stormed the building, in the Cairo suburb of Moqattam, after Friday prayers.

“[We] deeply regret what has happened and apologize to the people of Moqattam,” mosque officials said in a statement, adding that “they had lost control over the mosque at the time."

The statement also “denounced and condemned the violence and involving mosques in political conflicts.”

The latest crackdown is further confirmation that the Muslim Brotherhood’s most hard-line elements are consolidating control in Egypt, according to Shaul Gabbay, a professor of international studies at the University of Denver.

“It will only get worse,” said Gabbay. “This has been a longstanding conflict, but now that the Muslim Brotherhood is in power, it is moving forward to implement its ideology – which is that Christians are supposed to become Muslims.

“There is no longer anything to hold them back,” he continued. “The floodgates are open.”

Gabbay said the violent militias that allegedly tortured Ayad work hand-in-hand with police and may, in fact, be beyond the control of increasingly unpopular President Mohammed Morsi. While he may benefit from roving bands that attack demonstrators, they also undermine his claim of being a legitimate leader.

“Egyptian society is split over the Morsi regime, and it is not just a Coptic-Muslim split,” Gabbay said. “The less conservative elements of the Muslim society are increasingly uneasy with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Christian Copts are an easy target, but they are not alone in their mistrust of the Brotherhood.”

Experts agreed that the Copts, who comprise roughly 10 percent of the nation’s 83 million people, are not alone in their opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood, which took power in hotly contested elections following the 2011 ouster of longtime President Hosni Mubarak. Moderate Muslims and secular liberals are increasingly uncomfortable with the Islamization of the government.  

Sheikh Ahmed Saber, a well-known imam and official in Egypt’s Ministry of Endowments, has blasted Morsi’s justice ministry for allowing persecution of Copts.

“All Egyptians in general are oppressed, but Christians are particularly oppressed, because they suffer double of what others suffer,” Saber told MCN.

#MyJihad in South Egypt: Jihadis Setting Up their own parallel police to enforce Sharia law

More of what Obama wrought in Egypt in throwing away Mubarak with both hands:

In South Egypt, Fears Over Islamist [sic] Vigilantes ABC News

The Gamaa Islamiya once waged a bloody insurgency here, attacking police and Christians in a campaign to create an Islamic state. Now a political force, the former jihadis say they are setting up their own parallel police and are determined to ensure law and order in this southern Egyptian province.

Their declaration has set in motion a spiral of tensions in Assiut province, raising fears that hard-line Islamists who call for a strict version of Shariah, or Islamic law, will take the law into their own hands, threatening the delicate sectarian balance of Muslims and Christians here. Opponents warn that if they succeed here, hard-liners elsewhere in Egypt will try to take advantage of the country's lawlessness to increase their power.

Worries over vigilante action, whether Islamist or not, are already high in Egypt, which has been shaken by months of political turmoil. (More here).

 

#MyJihad in Egypt: Three Christians murdered on church-building rumors

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Obama's pro-Muslim Brotherhood legacy. He owns it. He can run, but he can't hide from history.

Egypt: Three Christians murdered on church-building rumor Jihadwatch

According to a recent El Watan News report, three Christian brothers were shot dead at their home by automatic weapons a few weeks before two were set to have their weddings. The victims’ family (of 13 members) was earlier accused of trying to build a church on land they owned when they purchased building material to build a house on that land. The rumors about the building of a church spread during the Friday sermon at the mosque. Following the sermon, two thousand Muslims stormed the land and tried to destroy the house, car and tractor, resulting in the murder of the three Christian brothers.