Egypt: Islamist Mobs Attack Christians, Set Fire to Homes
Riots began following rumors that Coptic Christians were planning to build a new church in the village of Al-Fawakher.
Egypt’s beleaguered Christian minority is once again under attack as Islamist mobs attack Christians and set fire to their homes in the southern province of Minya, the U.S.-based Catholic News Agency reported Wednesday.
The anti-Christian riots began earlier this week in response to rumors that Coptic Christians, one of the oldest Christian communities in the Muslim-majority Middle East, were planning to build a new church in the village of Al-Fawakher, media reports say.
Videos circulating on Twitter apparently show angry Egyptian rioters chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ and burning homes with joyful Arabic music in the background.
“The attack occurred after word spread that residents of the village, which is home to 3,000 Christian families, had obtained a permit to construct a church building,” the watchdog International Christian Concern (ICC) reported. According to Islamic Sharia law, non-Muslims, or ‘dhimmis,’ living under the Muslim-rule are not allowed to repair their places of worship, let alone build new ones.
Muslim rioters reportedly had tacit backing from the Egyptian security services. “Despite promises of safety from security forces, the cries of help from the archbishop and the local Coptic community went unanswered as the attack unfolded. Security forces arrived only after the attack, leaving a yet unknown number of Christians to perish in their burning homes,” the ICC added.
There had been circulating rumors that the almost 3,000 Coptic families in the village of Al-Fawakher were trying to build a church. This was, of course, met with vehement opposition from Muslim neighbors. 2/
— Mariam Wahba (@themariamwahba) April 25, 2024
Unable to expel Christians as punishment this time around, Muslim neighbors resorted to their second favorite form of punishment for Copts; burning homes and businesses to the ground while there are women and children inside. 4/
— Mariam Wahba (@themariamwahba) April 25, 2024
Now, this is not a novel attack. In fact, these things happen all the time, and are rarely reported on in the West. But why is this specific attack of note? 7/
— Mariam Wahba (@themariamwahba) April 25, 2024
The Copts, who constitute close to 10 percent of the Egypt’s 95 million population, face regular attacks from the country’s Muslim population and persecution from the state.
🇪🇬☦ #THREAD
Muslim extremists arson Christian homes in Minya, Egypt
The Muslim who filmed the video was playing music and praising the people who burned the church
متطرفون مسلمون يحرقون منازل المسيحيين في المنيا، مصر#ChristiansMENA pic.twitter.com/fvhQAJ3G7A
— Christians MENA (@ChristiansMENA) April 25, 2024
The Catholic News Agency reported the latest round of anti-Christian riots:
Muslim extremists set on fire several homes of Christians in Minya, a province in southern Egypt, in a continuation of anti-Christian violence less than two weeks before Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter.
According to The New Arab, when anti-Christian fanatics failed to dispossess Christians of their homes in retribution for attempting to build a church in Al-Fawakher village, they proceeded to burn down the houses on the evening of April 23.
On his official Twitter account, Coptic Orthodox Bishop Anba Macarius wrote on April 24 that Egyptian security forces “brought the situation under control, arresting the instigators and perpetrators,” and that the government “will compensate those affected and hold the perpetrators accountable.”
After noting that calm now reigns in Al-Fawakher, Macarius added: “May God protect our dear country, Egypt, from all harm.”
CNA reached out to authorities of the Coptic Orthodox Church but did not receive a response by the time of publication. Video of the burning homes was shared on social media that featured celebratory music and Arabic lyrics. (…)
The Open Doors organization, which monitors persecution against followers of Christ, ranks Egypt as the 38th most dangerous country in the world to be a Christian. In 2018, seven Christians were killed by Muslim terrorists who attacked a bus carrying pilgrims. In 2017, Islamic State terrorists bombed two Coptic Orthodox churches, killing over 40 people. And in December 2016, a terrorist detonated a bomb killing himself and 189 worshippers at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, injuring more than 400 others.
🇪🇬✝️ Another video as this islamic mob attack the homes of the innocent Coptic Christians. The Police were clearly standing by and watching
فيديو آخر يظهر هجوم هذا الغوغاء الإسلاميين على منازل الأقباط الأبرياء. كانت الشرطة تراقب بوضوح دون التدخل#ChristiansMENA https://t.co/Zn2sYeXYLO pic.twitter.com/e98WxBCsXt
— Christians MENA (@ChristiansMENA) April 27, 2024
Not just Egypt, Christian minorities share the same fate across the Muslim-majority Middle East and North Africa. The leftists in the U.S. and the West, busy attacking Israel over fake casualty figures and fabricated atrocities amid its ongoing war with the terror group Hamas, ignore the near-genocide of Christians in the Muslim world.
A 2019 study commissioned by the U.K. government found that the Christian population in the Middle East has dropped from 20 percent a century ago to merely 5 percent. The Guardian newspaper cited the report saying that “a century ago Christians comprised 20% of the population in the Middle East and north Africa, but since then the proportion has fallen to less than 4%, or roughly 15 million people.”
Since then, the Islamic State-led terror campaign and the rise of Iran-backed jihadists groups has only exacerbated the situation, with Christians fleeing the Middle East — home to some of the oldest Christian churches and denominations.
The only exception to this dismal trend is Israel, where the Christian population has been growing consistently in recent years. “The Christian population has been on the rise for at least the last two years. In 2021, the population grew by 1.4% to 182,000, and in 2022, there was about 2% growth to 185,000,” the Jerusalem Post reported December 2023, citing Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
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But let’s not forget that “rampant Islamophobia” is a huge, huge problem. /s
Hey. Danny — come back and tell us all about the Religion of Peace, and how the “average Muslim” is a good person, not someone existentially dangerous to your freedom and your life.
If Danny’s not around, maybe George Bush is available.
Islam is no more the religion of ‘peace’ than Christianity is; both have been used by power hungry leaders and zealots to advance their temporal agenda with false cry that ‘God’ wants X action.
Average is relative. A Muslim in Afghanistan is likely illiterate v a Jordanian who is far more educated. Some Muslim in a remote village or rural area is far less likely to have traveled very far from home v a city dwelling Muslim who likely has done some travel. The Muslims in the Levant (Hamas/Hezbollah aside) are far more cosmopolitan and far more Western/Occidental in their outlook than their Muslim counterparts in other ME Countries. A typical Jordanian looks down their nose at an Iraqi or Afghan as a lesser breed.
All that to say there really isn’t an average Muslim unless you also add the Nation they are in and whether they immigrated. It is absolutely way more than fair to say that the average Egyptian Muslim would believe X or perform Z action under a particular set of conditions or circumstances.
Bull shit
THE “MUZZIES” ARE COMIN’ TO GETCHA, GONZO!! HIDE UNDER YOUR BED!!
I am sooo glad you continue to come on this platform and let everyone know that you support a hateful, vicious, murderous cult.
Are you arguing that every Muslim everywhere regardless of education, culture, Nationality, upbringing actually believe and act in the same way so as to constitute an ‘average’ expected behavior or belief across 2 Billion+ people? That’s obviously not true b/c there are several branches of Islam. The Sunni don’t believe what the Shia believe or the Sufi or the Ibadi or the Ahmadiyya.
Are you arguing that ‘Christianity’ hasn’t been harnessed by zealots or used by leaders as the basis to expand their temporal power? That’s also very obviously untrue. See the Crusades v the Cathars or the 100 years war of Protestant v Catholic, see the English Civil War, see the eras where there were two Popes contesting legitimacy. Eastern Orthodox ain’t Roman Catholic ain’t Anglican ain’t Baptist and so on.
Again it is much more than fair to say that the ‘average Egyptian Muslim’ believes X or would likely behave/react in certain way. But it isn’t accurate to ascribe a set of behaviour or anticipated reactions to the average Muslim without the context of the Nation/Culture. An Indonesian Muslim is different than a Iraqi, is different than a Turkish Muslim, is different from an Iranian and so on.
Gonzotx,
Since you didn’t offer any evidence to refute my my position I accept that as your concession.
Some Muslim in a remote village or rural area is far less likely to have traveled very far from home v a city dwelling Muslim who likely has done some travel.
It is the duty of devout Muslims to travel to Mecca. Even in the farthest reaches, look for those with a red beard… a sign of being to Mecca and reciting the Koran.
The Koran speaks of approved violence against the infidel…. the Bible does not… in fact… turn the other cheek. Far more have died under Islam, Communism, Shintoism/Buddhism, Nazi atheism than those wrongly using the Bible as pretext. Expressly point in the New Testament for approval of violence.
Yet most don’t. I don’t argue that Islam wasn’t used as a basis of Conquest or conflict but it was far from the ONLY religion to have been exploited that way to expand the temporal power of leaders. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims were killed during the Crusades. That, however, is no justification for what the radical Muslims are now doing.
The crusades was the counterattack by European non-Muslims.
The European non-Muslims had been under attack off&on for about 300 years, and fought back.
The Europeans did not just wake up one day and decide to spend a fortune in blood and treasure on a whim ……. just so in order to go attack their neighbors gentle, peace-loving tolerant sophisticated neighbors to their south.
C’mon man
(Not unlock what’s happening today in gaza btw and elsewhere)
Heck, they got as far as Vienna. Europe could easily have been part of the Ottoman Empire.
You suck at history.
These aren’t “radical” Muslims, and to call them that shows you’re misinformed or lying. What they’re doing is absolutely mainstream Islam. What these Copts are doing is rebellion (“striving to make mischief in the land”) as Islamic law defines it, and the prescribed punishment for that is that “they should be murdered, or crucified, or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides, or they should be imprisoned”.
Remember that under Islamic law a dhimmi is safe from summary execution by his Islamic neighbors only so long as they obey the restrictions, which among those many legal disabilities includes never repairing or building a house of worship.
While murder of a dhimmi is technically illegal, in practice it is not, in part because under Islamic law an infidel basically cannot testify against a Muslim in an Islamic court, as their testimony is considered legally untrustworthy, and so whatever the Muslim testifies happened is, legally speaking, what happened. That is also why Muslims often kidnap, rape, and forcibly convert Copt girls, or steal Copt property (a real problem at the Egyptian equivalent of the registrar of deeds), without consequence.
I might agree with you or not, but I learned three things to never talk about in the cockpit of an airliner. Sex, politics, and religion. You just insulted over half the people in the WORLD with your statement and can expect nothing but condemnation.
How? B/C I pointed out that both Islam and Christianity have been used/misused as the basis for leaders to launch wars of conquest and initiate conflict? Not a big secret, its right there in the history books for all to see assuming they are willing to. ‘There are none so blind as those who will not see’.
Maybe because I dislike the notion of tribalism and had the audacity to apply that to the 2 Billion+ Muslims to argue they ain’t all the same or that there isn’t an ‘average’ WITHOUT adding the context of the Nation?
It’s perfectly fine to say the ‘average Egyptian Muslim’ would do/believe X but isn’t accurate to apply that to every other Muslim. I don’t see how that’s controversial.
Your error is to make an equation that doesn’t make sense.
randian,
Not sure what you believe I am equating but at a guess…I did NOT equate Islam to Christianity. I DID equate the human nature and the flawed human failings of leaders, both Islamic and Christian, who misuse religion as an excuse for conquest and conflict in order to increase their temporal power. There are plenty of historical examples that show this to be true.
The world is complex. It’s way easier to use a broad generalization to describe groups than using any nuance or context. It this was Twitter (X) that may be more excusable due to character limits. This blog is long form and we don’t have a character limit. Secondly using broad generalization that ‘all members of X’ or the ‘average member of group X’ is a drift to the lazy and inaccurate tribalism used by leftists. I think we should oppose tribalism.
Your ignorance is breathtaking…. And your willingness to put it on display even more so
And yet predictably you fail to point out one thing he says that’s incorrect.
I am always willing to correct my ignorance so please explain how I am wrong point by point. Surely you are.willing to do so… unless you just wanted to drop an ad hominem attack declaring me to be ignorant but failing to offer any factual basis to support your contention.
Since you didn’t respond after being asked with any evidence to refute my position I will take that as your concession.
Bush2
“The Religion of Peace “
Never forget
Life as a minority in a Muslim County: Isn’t it grand?
If Jews in Israel did that Arabs, the world would gnash its teeth and declare what Nazis the Jews are. The Biden would then sanction all the Jews in Judea and Samaria.
Back at the end of the first Gulf War Israel temporarily exiled 212 hamas members for 2 years. Israel dumped them at the Lebanese border. They just stayed at the border and the world’s press moved in and camped out with them, reporting every single day the plight of the poor hamas terrorists who were (temporarily) exiled from the territories and how this was the worst offense to humanity that has ever happened. The coverage was endless. Israel was threatened by everyone and had to suffer idiotic “punishments” from the dirtbag Bush Sr., who yanked loan guarantees right after that – after Israel had eaten all the scud attacks and did nothing in retaliation to let Bush maintain his illusory “coalition” (which really consisted of nothing but the US and Britain) …
At the same time Kuwait permanently ejected 400,000 palestinians because they had been Saddam Hussein supporters. Just threw them all out – shipped them right to Jordan. Not a peep from anyone or any mainstream news outlets. NOT A WORD.
There are no Jews in Egypt so the next-smartest tribe will have to do.
And this is why when people complain about Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, I say so F#$king what? I am sorry but if a religion can not learn to be tolerant of other beliefs then it gets no sympathy from me.
Christians being persecuted? What is the solution? The usual solution is to bring the persecutors to America and call them “refugees”.
Soon they will be shouting “Death to America” along with the previous “refugees”.
What a wonderful legacy wrought by Mohammad and the word of his god that is immutable. Where is the Islamic “Jesus” to bring some sanity? A non-sequitur. In the meantime, no force causes more pain and suffering in the world.
MooHamMud was a pedophile.
There is an Islamic Jesus, but his job, according to the Quran, is to kill all the Christians who have refused to convert to Islam and throw them into hell.
BTW, the coptic Christians in Egypt are pretty much all that’s left of the actual Egyptians.
Just sayin’ …
Mainstream media going to bury this news because it doesn’t fit the leftist narrative of muzzies as victims?
smh
Muslims gonna Muslim.
This is what is meant by “Palestine will be free’. Free to oppress, cleanse, rape, and murder anyone who isn’t a Muslim and an Arab.
So… where are the of the Legal Insurrection MudSlime lovers who normally come on here and celebrate how great and wonderful and peaceful, and loving, and caring, yadda yadda yadda the adherents of the Religion of Pieces are?
Where are they to tell us how important it is to surrender our safety and our future, and how if we don’t get on our knees and lick MidSlime ass, they won’t vote for a Republican candidate?
C’mon tough guys, come here and show your support for “Death to America!”
Come tell us how it’s racist to hate Muslims, when MudSlime aren’t even a race.
“Where are they to tell us how important it is to surrender our safety and our future, and how if we don’t get on our knees and lick MidSlime ass, they won’t vote for a Republican candidate?”
Where has anyone ever said that? Call the fire trucks that strawman is blazing.
“Tough guys.” You were an NCO? What an absolute fucking disgrace, you ignorant jackass. I always noticed the most insecure shitbags in the military were always the one that needed to crow loudest about their “service” (such as putting their rank in a comments section name, perhaps.)
OK keyboard “Ranger.” Special Operations Forces A-Team PsyOps Intel Counter Intel Poser.
But I see that you don’t dispute the fact that you are Pro-Islamofascism.
All you can do is impugne my military service. At least I accomplished something other than you being a keyboard warrior.
Pussy.
Glad you are here for the world to see.
What is it they say about first the Saturday people and then the Sunday people?
Well, Egypt ran out of Saturday people decades ago.
There are not enough “Friday People” for tourism to pay bills. If devout Islam took over, every ancient structure would be destoyed.
First, they came for the Jews…
and yet through fjb’s malfeasance (deliberate or otherwise) we’ve “welcomed” tens of thousands (likely a helluva lot more) into our own country–bringing their ancient ills and hatreds here
lord
There is an inaccuracy in this article. It says, “Muslim extremists set on fire several homes of Christians…”
They weren’t “Muslim extremists.” They were just regular Muslims.
It’s like the difference between ricin and lethal ricin.
They may call themselves the Religion of Peace but if you listen to their creed it is to dominate the world. They would gladly do it peacefully if possible but if not they will slaughter as many infidels as needed to convince the rest to surrender to Allah. They are upfront about it but our woke government does not understand that they believe it. There are enough jihadists in the US right now to construct a sizable army and many of our states and areas are not prepared for any such action. God help us if Biden gets re-elected.
“Peace” means submission; when everybody’s in submission under the same theocracy, there won’t be any more conflict. Except perhaps in the writhing agony in people’s souls, but so long as they don’t let any of that get out, hey, peace.
Any questions?
These were not “Islamist mobs,” but mobs of garden-variety Muslims.
It’s a sad situation. Unsurprisingly there’s little to no MSM coverage of this.
FYI- The location description in the article is incorrect. The Minya Governorate/Province is located in north central Egypt on the left bank of the Nile, not in the south. The village where the attacks occurred is around 275 km south of Cairo.
Islam today is as it has been for 1,400 years: a hateful, racist, supremacist death cult masquerading as a religion. For 1,400 years, the followers of “the religion of peace” have had but a single goal: to conquer the world, kill anyone who gets in the way, and then enslave the survivors. Anyone who does not understand this by now is self-delusional.
If WWII had been fought between the axis powers of , on the one hand, a Muslim-ruled Germany and Muslim-ruled Japan,
versus an alliance of UK/USSR/USA,
then
today the history of WWII would be taught as follows:
In the 1930s German Jews were happy as can be, in Germany , but they decided to move to the USA so that they could help create atomic bombs
… why? so that they could nuke the holy Muslim cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Wring not your hands, the students will be piching hundreds of identical tents and canopies any minute for the protests.
Federal asylum program for Egyptian Copts in 3… 2… 1…
Don’t we have some left-over churches from televangelism in decline lying about?
Come here, you’ll be right at home: we have relics from dead religions, too!
1) A radical Christian will travel to far away dangerous places in order to preach the gospel of Christianity. A radical Muslim will kill him for doing so.
2) Any devoted Christian will travel to far away dangerous places to preach the gospel of Christianity. Any devoted Muslim will kill him for doing so.
3) In Saudi Arabia it is illegal to convert from Islam to Christianity (apostasy) and the penalty is death.
You can delete any one of these three sentences and the other two still remain true. Referring to Muslims who just simply practice their religion, by calling them “Radical Muslims” is just an attempt to avoid forthcoming truth concerning the danger associated with Islam. Can anyone name or describe a team/organization of Christians who go around killing people for disagreeing with them on religious belief? Like Al Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, Taliban, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Abu Sayyaf, Boko Haram……. The list goes on and on, and they all appear to be Islamic as best I can tell. No Jews…. No Sikhs….. No Catholics…. No Baptists…. No Methodists….. No Buddhists…… Not even any satanists do this.
The list goes on and on, and they all appear to be Islamic as best I can tell.
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indirectly you make a crucial point–“devout” muslims (and especially ” radical muslims ” ) are not likely to relent or convert ( and certailnly not ” assimilate “) — recognizing this rather elegantly reduces our alternatives for dealing with them
“recognizing this rather elegantly reduces our alternatives for dealing with them”
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Amen!!