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		<title>Coptic Christian Leaders Condemn Hate from Obama&#8217;s Islamist Adviser</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2013 14:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["VERY disturbing if true" Bishop Angaelos, Coptic Pope Tawadros II's personal representative in the United Kingdom wrote]]></description>
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<p>Mohamed Elibiary has doubled down on his church-burning Brotherhood&#8217;s R4BIA hate symbol. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s followers continue to persecute Coptic Christians while Obama and his advisers seem bent only on finding ways to restore the terrorist hate group to power.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4184/coptic-leaders-condemn-obama-adviser-anti-coptic">Coptic leaders are speaking out about the hate </a>from the Obama adviser.</p>
<blockquote><p>Major Coptic leaders are condemning Mohamed Elibiary, an Obama administration Homeland Security adviser, for suggesting that Copts who raise awareness of anti-Christian violence in Egypt promote &#8220;Islamophobic&#8221; bigotry.</p>
<p>Elibiary sent out a series of tweets that Coptic leaders found offensive last month. The tweets appeared to chastise the Coptic community for lobbying on behalf of their relatives in Egypt. He targeted them because they had aligned themselves with conservative groups that he called &#8220;Islamophobic.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;VERY disturbing if true: bit.ly/18xotzi US DHS adviser accuses #Coptic #Christians of inciting Muslims! #Speechless! Pls comment!&#8221; Bishop Angaelos, Coptic Pope Tawadros II&#8217;s personal representative in the United Kingdom wrote in a Sept. 28 Twitter post.</p>
<p>Elibiary initially defended sporting the R4BIA on his Twitter profile, saying &#8220;#R4BIA=#Freedom4ALL.&#8221; But he relented to pressure Friday and removed it. &#8220;While I did remove #R4BIA twibbon as I updated my profile, my view &amp; support of its human rights &amp; pro democracy values continue. #AntiCoup,&#8221; Elibiary wrote.</p>
<p>R4BIA takes its name from Cairo&#8217;s Rabia ad-Alawiya Square, where hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood protesters were killed in armed clashes with Egyptian security forces in August.</p>
<p>The #R4BIA platform includes a litany of principles that run in open opposition to Western values. It invokes concepts such as: &#8220;pure martyrdom&#8221;; &#8220;unification of the Muslim World&#8221;; &#8220;the end of Zionists&#8221;.</p>
<p>The R4BIA platform page makes extensive positive references to Sayyid Qutb, a Muslim Brotherhood leader executed in 1966 who explicitly called for violent jihad against infidels; his books are replete with massive anti-Semitic and anti-Christian dogma and conspiracies such as the Jews&#8217; control of world finance.</p>
<p>Yet Elibiary repeatedly defends Qutb on Twitter and elsewhere. On Sept. 28, he posted a clip of an Arabic documentary about Qutb.</p>
<p>Elibiary lectured the Copts after the blog appeared for attacking groups such as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) because of their historic connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, and for their alignment with so-called &#8220;Islamophobes&#8221;. He then called the Copts&#8217; work with &#8220;Islamophobes&#8221; and their criticism of American Islamic groups contrary to the cause of religious freedom.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s ironic that Elibiary would use religious freedom to silence Christian Copts, because that is what his Muslim Brotherhood is doing to Copts in Egypt. For Elibiary and the Brotherhood, religious freedom only applies to Muslims.</p>
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		<title>Egypt Sentences Mother and 7 Children to 15 Years in Prison for Converting to Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A criminal court in Egypt has sentenced a family of eight in Beni-Suef to 15 years in prison for converting to Christianity and changing their place of residence. ]]></description>
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<p>Or as Obama would say, &#8220;The future will not belong to <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/egypt-imprisons-entire-family-for-converting-to-christianity.html">those who leave the religion of Islam</a> because <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/family-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-converting-to-christianity-in-egypt-88193/">they will be spending it behind bars</a>.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>A criminal court in Egypt has sentenced a family of eight in Beni-Suef to 15 years in prison for converting to Christianity and changing their place of residence. The court also sentenced seven employees in the local authority of Beni-Suef&#8217;s city of Beba to five years in prison.</p>
<p>The case dates from 2004 to 2006, when Nadia Mohamed Ali and her sons cooperated with seven employees to change their names on their identification cards to Christian names, in addition to changing their place of residence to Beni-Suef.</p>
<p>Previous investigations conducted by the Public Prosecution clarified that Nadia Mohamed Ali was a Christian when she converted to Islam 23 years ago. She married a mechanic named Mohamed abdel-Wahab Mustafa who died in 1991. She planned to return to Christianity with her children to obtain her dues.</p></blockquote>
<p>Christians attempting to return to their own religion <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Egypt,-15-years-in-prison-for-mother-and-seven-children,-converts-to-Christianity-26860.html">often face persecution in Egyp</a>t.</p>
<blockquote><p>An individuals religious faith is listed in Egyptian identity cards. Christians, converted to Islam for various reasons that attempt to return to the religion to which they belong have enormous difficulty in correcting their names on the documents. This leads many people to forge them, risking prison. The reverse process, ie the transition from Christianity to Islam is not hindered, and in many cases is favored by the very Registry officials.</p></blockquote>
<p>Fortunately Obama is springing into action by sending the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist regime a whole bunch of F-16s.</p>
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		<title>Egyptian Islamists Attacking Christian Women for Not Wearing the Hijab</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Salafis meet Christian girls in the street and order them to cover their hair," Father Mina said. "Sometimes they hit them when they refuse."]]></description>
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<p>Western Islamists like to claim that wearing the Hijab is a choice. It&#8217;s a choice like paying your taxes is a choice. It&#8217;s a choice like everything else in the Muslim world&#8230; either you do it o<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/tens-of-thousands-of-islamophobes-discovered-in-egypt-christians-leaving-country-in-droves-in-wake-o.html">r bad things happen to you</a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most of our people are afraid,&#8221; Father Mina Adel, a priest at the Church of Two Saints in Alexandria said. &#8220;Not a few are leaving &#8211; for America, Canada and Australia. Dozens of families from this church alone are trying to go too.&#8221;</p>
<p>Father Mina&#8217;s church has an important place in the history of the Arab Spring. It was struck by a car bomb on New Year&#8217;s Eve 2010, Egypt&#8217;s worst sectarian attack in recent decades, in which 23 people were killed.</p>
<p>&#8220;Salafis meet Christian girls in the street and order them to cover their hair,&#8221; Father Mina said. &#8220;Sometimes they hit them when they refuse.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The Salafis have boasted of their strength in Alexandria and it&#8217;s clear that they already have their own religious police operating on the streets, with or without the sanction of the government, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/morality-police-getting-tasers/">but also without its interference</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Volunteer “morality police” in Egypt have ordered taser weapons to help “defend” themselves against citizens whose behavior in public doesn’t align with Islamic teachings, according to a report.</p>
<p>The Egyptian force is acquiring 1,000 of the taser weapons to “promote virtue” on the streets and byways</p>
<p>Ahram reported that the first training session for volunteers who will be armed will be in the El-Mandara neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just in case those women <a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/01/09/Egyptian-women-cane-morality-police/UPI-67651326131249/">start to fight back</a>.</p>
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		<title>Inside Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Activist Cynthia Farahat shares her insight on the future of her country. ]]></description>
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<p>The eyes of the world have been on Egypt this year as the 30-year stability of the Mubarak regime collapsed in the wake of popular protests that have since echoed throughout the Arab world (and been mischaracterized in the now-ubiquitous phrase, “Arab Spring”).</p>
<p>Speculation and analysis abound about the future of our relations with Egypt, the ascendancy there of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the threat of impending war with Israel. There is no shortage of pundits on the outside looking in, but for a perspective from the eye of the storm, so to speak, I reached out to interview my courageous friend Cynthia Farahat in Cairo.</p>
<p>Cynthia is a young political activist, dissident, and Coptic Christian – a combination that paints a bright red target on one’s back in Egypt. Her <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2887/arab-upheaval-egypt-islamist">recent article in the <em>Middle East Quarterly</em></a> and an <a href="http://www.pjtv.com/video/National_Security_Review/_Walk_Like_a_Secularist_Egyptian:_Why_Activist_Cynthia_Farahat_Has_High_Hopes_for_Egypt's_Future/5019/">interview with Bill Whittle of PJTV</a> have begun to earn her recognition as an expert political analyst.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Cyn-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-96003" title="Cyn-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Cyn-1.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="189" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Mark Tapson: </strong><em>Let’s begin by talking about your politics and your work.</em></p>
<p><strong>Cynthia Farahat: </strong>My political philosophy is somewhere between American Conservatism and Objectivism, and I am very fond of and inspired by the American Tea Party movement. I have learned so much from the Tea Parties all the way out here in Cairo.</p>
<p>My political activism began after 9/11, for two reasons: first, I was heartbroken by the shocking evil and cowardice of the attacks on the unsuspecting, peaceful people in the Twin Towers. Second, I was compelled by the fact that those people were paying tax dollars to fund the so-called &#8220;moderate&#8221; Mubarak dictatorship, whose state-sponsored media celebrated 9/11 and the death of American &#8220;infidels.&#8221; The virtue of empathy is severely lacking in Arab regimes. We don&#8217;t even have a word for &#8220;empathy&#8221; in Arabic.</p>
<p>I saw that I would be compliant with their crimes if I stayed silent. My main goal is to collaborate with strong secular civil groups against theocratic forces, because I have seen their ideas fly into your buildings. So I met with like-minded people and co-founded the Egyptian Liberal Party, the first political party in Egypt that openly calls for secularism and capitalism. Our party was banned by a court order at the same time that the Mubarak regime opened up the parliament for the Muslim Brotherhood. I always believed the Brotherhood was part of the Mubarak regime, and that he couldn&#8217;t have functioned without it.</p>
<p><strong>MT: </strong><em>When the so-called &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; kicked off in Egypt, I know you were very optimistic and excited about the possibilities for liberal democracy in Egypt. Has your perspective changed any since then?</em></p>
<p><strong>CF: </strong>My optimism is still strong, but it&#8217;s not merely a hopeful delusion. I used to believe that if someone is optimistic about Arab or Egyptian politics there must be something wrong with them. I still believe this regarding the government because the system has not changed: almost half the Egyptian workforce works for the government. Hardly anything can change in the presence of such a massive bureaucracy.</p>
<p>My optimism stems from my conclusion after observing the Egyptian people during the protests, and up until now. For the first time in six decades Egyptian masses started demanding their rights, and demanding democracy and a peaceful transition of power, which is a major step against Islamic fundamentalism.</p>
<p>I saw a remarkable and unexpected display of civility, tolerance, and well-articulated demands from unorganized Egyptian protesters. The Egypt I lived in all my life under Mubarak was certainly not the Egypt I saw in Tahrir Square, apart from the regime thugs that attacked protesters and journalists. Rejecting Mubarak brought out the best in Egypt.</p>
<p>Demanding democracy in an Islamic constitutional theocracy is in fact a secular demand, an implicit recognition that Egyptian masses reject the concept of <em>khilāfa</em>, the caliphate, and that the reference for governance should be the people and not Sharia Law. This frightens other Arab dictators and the Muslim Brotherhood, who started having serious organizational problems because the massive wave of demands for democracy has impacted their internal structure.</p>
<p>Having said that, I&#8217;m still very realistic in my expectations. It certainly is a long process but this is the first step. Egyptians have been enslaved and silenced under an Islamic socialist military dictatorship for 60 years. Free speech is almost always severely punished by harassment, threats, torture, imprisonment or death. Egyptians have been isolated, intimidated and brainwashed into perceiving a distorted version of reality and the outside world. It would be utopian and unreal to expect them now to the say all the things we want to hear. But that certainly is the first step, and there is no going back.</p>
<p><strong>MT: </strong><em>Middle East</em><strong><em> </em></strong><em>analysts such as Barry Rubin believe &#8220;</em><a href="http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/06/three-paragraphs-on-what-has-just.html"><em>Egypt is the New Iran</em></a>,” <em>that just as “Jimmy Carter’s incompetence helped give us Islamist Iran, Barack Obama’s incompetence and ideology helped give us radical (perhaps Islamist) Egypt.” Do you think that&#8217;s a legitimate comparison, that Egypt is rapidly and inevitably becoming a fundamentalist Islamic state openly hostile to America and Israel?</em></p>
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