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by morris.sadek | February 1, 2010 at 09:57 am
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President Mubarak says that “there is no persecution of Copts in Egypt and it’s just an attempt to divide the Egyptian people, which is an old imperialist game.” However, he intentionally does not admit that Copts, the indigenous people of Egypt, face various forms of discrimination and persecution. According to the Egyptian law, the construction of churches – unlike mosques – requires formal government approval. Christian communities face undue bureaucratic obstacles when trying to build or renovate their places of worship, while efforts to build mosques face little, if any, official obstruction.
Mr. Mubarak also ignores that a systematic abduction and forced Islamization of Coptic girls in Egypt is a frequent, dangerous and a rapidly escalating phenomenon. The problem was brought to light by Coptic Pope Shenouda III as far back as December 17, 1976, when he protested during a conference held in Alexandria that “there is pressure being practiced to convert Coptic girls to embrace Islam and marry them under terror to Muslim husbands” and demanded that the abducted girls be brought back to their families. Reports of hundreds of cases of kidnappings of girls from Christian families takes place every year, with very little, if any, success in getting them back to their families, and not one single person accused of abduction of Coptic girls has been brought to justice. The Egyptian police even order the families of kidnapped Christian women to forget about their daughters and not to try to get them back.
In addition, he does not pay any attention to churches destroyed by Muslim mobs. Instead of arresting the actual perpetrators, the Egyptian police arrest Coptic Christians to accuse them of attacking their own churches. Part of a growing trend throughout Egypt’s Coptic communities, local police and security forces are framing Christians, while the perpetrators escape prosecution. Days after the arson attack on a church in the south of Egypt, Egyptian State Security Investigation (SSI) officers arrested the Muslims suspects, but all three were released without charges. Local police and fire brigades arrived two hours after the church’s building had been set on fire.
Moreover, Mr. Mubarak allows Muslims converting to Christianity to face extreme hardships and torture by the State security apparatus. The number of Muslims who dare to convert to Christianity do so in secret. That is because the penalty for leaving Islam is death in all schools of Sharia (Islamic law). Former Egyptian Muslims are put to death by their own families and the Egyptian police for exercising their basic human rights to choose their own religion.
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at 11:06 on February 1st, 2010
Forcing somebody to "convert" to another religion is immoral, and not real anyway. You have to actually believe something to convert to it. Presumably these are the people that seek to reconvert back to Christianity.
at 12:45 on February 1st, 2010
The pratice by all religions of forcing their beliefs down the throats of others is repugnant, but few religious groups across the world are suffering the persecution of the Coptic Christians in Egypt.
Forget about the religion.....what's going on is nothing more nor less than criminal.
You live in a country where you didn't break a law by converting Sputnic, many countries don't actually have a "law" against it, but in a country like Egypt, you will suffer if you do.
And whether these are people who "convert" or are "converting back", that is their belief, and they should have the right to do it....without the risk of imprisonment, death, or risking their daughters future as a free agent to make their own choices.
at 17:01 on February 10th, 2010
The United State and European Christians need to stand together on the perscussion of Coptic Christians in the predominant islamic states. These are human beings we are talking about here and not animals for slaughters each time they want too. I hope in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ that the West would wake-up and see the criminal act being committed by these Islamic dominated states in once thriving countries. The United State, Europe and the rest of the world that has respect for freedoom to stand-up and warn these sponsored state terrorism Islamic governments to stop oppressing the Real Natives of the Egypt. I truly believe that the muslium folks are not true believer in God Almighty, if they were, they wouldn't be shedding people's innocent blood. It's time for the West and those who care for the survivor of human species to come to the aid of the COPTICS and perscuted Christians elsewhere, especially where islams is found. Any religion that put itself above other religion as the case of islam IS NOT A TRUE RELIGION AT ALL. IT IS A FAKE RELIGION THAT IS MOTIVATED BY POLITCAL WORLD DOMINANATION I BELIEVE IT'S THE CASE FOR islam as WE KNOW IT. WHEN IS THE KILLING OF CHRISTIANS AND THOSE WHO CONVERT FROM islam GOING TO STOP. WELL, IN THEIR OWN CRAZY BRAINIAC OR MANIAC - IS UNTIL THE LAST CHRISTIAN CONVERT TO islam, THAT'S WHEN THEIR KILLING OF OUR FELLOW CHRISTIANS WILL THEN STOP. AS OF NOW, KILLING OF CHRISTIANS IS THE NORMS ON THESE BARBARIC INCONSIDERATE STATES. PLEASE OBAMA KEEP YOUR PROMISE- WARN YOUR FELLOW MOSLIUMS TO STOP THE KILLINGS OF OUR FELLOW CHRISTIANS. IF YOUR NOT A MOSLIUM THEN DO MORE FOR THOSE BEING PERSCUTED SIMPLY FOR THEIR RELIGIONS IN THE islamic COUNTRIES. REMEMBER, CHRISTIANS, HINDUSIM, BUDDAH AND OTHER ETHICS MAKER UP ARE STILL THE MAJORITY ON EARTH. THE SO CALLED KILLERS IN THE NAME OF THEIR STANIC GOD ARE STILL THE MINORITY REGARDLESS THEIR 2.0 NUMBERS. WE CAN DEFEAT THEM IF THEY EVER ATTEMPT TO CONTINUE USING FORCE. WE WILL DRIVE THEM OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST COMPLETELY. THIS CAN ONLY HAPPEN IF THERE'S UNITY AMONG CHRISTIANS AND OTHER INFIDEL RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD THAT HUNGER FOR DEMOCRACY. THIS IS VERY SERIOUS ISSUES THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION IS FACING AND VERY OFTEN OVERLOOKED BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIAS. I WONDER HOW MUCH THEIR GETTING PAID BY THE SAUDI KINGDOM AND DUBAI OR THE MUSLIUMS IN GENERAL TO TURN A BLIND EYE TO THESE ISSUES. THE TRUTH IS UNDER THE DOMINATION OF islam, THE MEDIA WILL NEVER HAVE THE FREEDOOM THEY TAKE FOR GRANTED TODAY. THE TRUTH IS, THESE MEDIA PEOPLE WILL BE THE FIRST TO BE WIPED-OUT UNDER THE islamic WORLD DOMINATION. GOOD LUCK WESTERN MEDIA, I HOPE YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING IN PROTECTING THE EXTREMIST GOVERNMENTS OF islamic STATES OF THE WORLD. AS FOR ME, I DON'T. I AM AGAINST THE PERSCUTION OF INNONCENT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE CHRISTIANS IN THE ARAB WORLD AND ELSEWHERE IN THE islamic REIGN. Is Obama a muslium? Is really helping the Christians causes in the islamic hostile countries where Christians have been perscuted since the inception of islam? Is islam a tru religion or a political force destined to take over the world and impose their false interpretation of their killer god into other peoples lives. What can we do about it as people of the free world? FACE THEM OUT OF THE COMPLETELY OR WHAT? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?