Egypt

How Do You Say “Lynching” in Egypt?

February 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Not going to write much about it, and add the original text and link to this one. It looks like a mob of 20,000 (yes, twenty thousand) Muslims went out to try and lynch a Christian pastor for what looks like a nightmare religious insane story, one that only we atheists can shake our heads in disbelief to.

A man is born a Christian, somehow he prefers to become a Muslim (because the second is so much different to the first?), his 15 year old daughter joins him in his new faith, now he assimilates pretty fast and wants to get her to get married to someone he likes (but she probably does not), she runs away. The conclusion of this half rumor half fairy tale story is thousands of blood thirsty men trying to set a church on fire and kill any Christian they meet.

And still atheists need to explain why they prefer a world without religion.

Here is the story –

A mob of nearly 20,000 radical Muslims, mainly Salafis, attempted this evening to break into and torch the Church of St. Mary and St. Abram in the village of Meet Bashar,in Zagazig, Sharqia province. They were demanding the death of Reverend Guirgis Gameel, pastor of the church, who has been unable to leave his home since yesterday. Nearly 100 terrorized Copts sought refuge inside the church, while Muslim rioters were pelting the church with stones in an effort to break into the church, assault the Copts and torch the building. A home of a Copt living near the church and the home of the church’s porter were torched, as well as three cars.

The mob demanded the return Rania of Khalil Ibrahim, 15, to her father. She has been held with the Security Directorate since yesterday. Christian-born Rania had converted to Islam three months ago after her father, who had converted to Islam two years ago and took custody of her. She had disappeared from the village on Saturday, after claiming to go shopping. According to Reverend Guirgis Gameel, she had a disagreement with her father, who had arranged a marriage for her with a Muslim man.

Her father, Khalil Ibrahim, went to the police on Saturday and accused the priest of being behind her disappearance, and said she had gone to live with her Coptic mother.

Yesterday a Salafi mob of 2000 went to the priest’s home and destroyed his furniture and his car, surrounded the church and pelted it with stones. They demolished a large section of the church fence. In the evening security forces announced that they had found Rania in Cairo and that she was not abducted by Christians; she was brought to the police station in Meet Bashar.

Full link to the story.

Egypt’s New Industry

February 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Looks like there is a new industry in Egypt, and it is kidnapping, it started with tourists and foreign workers and now has developed into a full blown “everyone included” kind of a deal, targeting especially children of upper class families.

This is yet another indication of the poor state Egypt is in since the begging of the “revolution” and the euphoria that followed it, the country is on a spiraling escalation of violence and crime, mixed in with fundamental religious statements that cry out for anything from a war on Israel to the banning of women touching fruits in markets.

It seems that the Mubarack era, as oppressive as it was, was holding back a lot of the criminality that was hiding in some layers of Egyptian society, now that this barrier is gone it looks like its a free day for all those who wish to indulge in criminal activity. The authorities have already shown themselves to be doing little to stop or prevent much serious things than these, for example of the Egypt soccer riot of this week that ended with scores of dead.

How symbolic it is that the grandchildren of the murdered former president of Egypt Sadat have been kidnapped, their grandfather was a prominent solider in Egypt’s army and later made president, only to be murdered by those who are now in power – the Muslim brotherhood, and now the lives of his grandchildren are at risk because of how those who killed him run the country, sad.

Blood Is Everyday Life in Egypt Today

February 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Here comes a little video along with some scary text, aperently this is the footage of the last moments of a soccer game, in the end the fans of the home team rush to the field to try and massacre the players, which they might have actually done.

This might be the example as to what Egypt is becoming, a bloody disorganized riot, with all sides screams the God is great and on their side, even if it is just a sport event. This might be also some food for thought when talking about how the Muslim behave towards Coptic Christians in Egypt today, with this level of violence on the streets the country is not header towards peace.

Modern Day Pogrom in Alexandria Egypt

January 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Just as I was sitting down to write a post about the international holocaust day (was yesterday) one of my alerts went red and I red this

alxegypo — Its 2012 and these things are really going on

Like in the good old days this riot just started with a rumor, some Christian had posed with a nude Muslim woman, they say, and that is just about enough to trigger thousands of Gods faithful believers to loot and set fire to shops of another faith, damage property and of course try to go for even yet more damage and get some blood on the floor, because a good old scapegoat can not go un-noticed in todays post revolution Egypt.

The state of affairs for the Coptic Church in Egypt is quickly moving from the occasionally lethal to the seriously dangerous, you got to admire the courage of the ones staying in this country, and hope for a better life for the many who fled to the U.S. as a part of a very silenced transfer of a population out of a country in which they have now become living targets.

One can not but wonder how those who initiated this “revolution” a year ago, many of whom are secular, feel about the changing winds, to see this country and its revolution highjacked but religious fanatics who want to violently forever change the face of Egypt, and to think that the Western world stood and cheered these people…

HaeassMap – Egypt’s Sex Harassment Counter

January 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment

We thought we would make a special post for the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, however this post is much more interesting and also current situation telling. A new site publishes the number of sexual assaults made in the Egyptian capitol, and you can not ignore the very clear suggestion that the assaults started to peak around November 2011, and around the now famous Tahrir sq.

More and more stories of young girls and women who are attacked on the street or found begging for help when they felt that an attack is seconds away, just run a search for this and you will hit dozens of news articles telling the stories of raped and attacked women of all ages in Egypt today.

To make things even worst it looks like if you are a foreigner walking the streets of Cairo these days you stand a very high chance of meeting this kind of behavior in almost any corner and any time, it is either that non-Egyptian females are a huge attraction to the local men population, or that there is a “cultural” issue at work, where men feel that they can freely abuse women of another culture, faith or religion.