New York Times Reports on Increase in Sexual Assaults in Brotherhood-Led Egypt

Here’s the discussion over the past couple of years:

WESTERN LEADERS: “Hey! If we help Islamist organizations in the Middle East, we can topple secular dictators and bring about a renaissance in Muslim leadership!”

PEOPLE WHO’VE STUDIED ISLAM: “That’s not going to work. If the Muslim Brotherhood takes over, women and religious minorities will be severely oppressed.”

WESTERN LEADERS: “How racist and Islamophobic of you to say that! You don’t understand the wonderful nature of Islam!”

(Later)

WOMEN AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES: “Help! Help! We’re being severely oppressed by the Muslim Brotherhood!”

WESTERN LEADERS: “Sorry, can’t help you. Who are we to interfere in the affairs of Muslims? It would be racist and Islamophobic to object to your oppression.”

PEOPLE WHO’VE STUDIED ISLAM: “We tried to tell you.”

You know the problem has gotten bad when even the New York Times is forced to say something about it.

CAIRO — The sheer number of women sexually abused and gang raped in a single public square had become too big to ignore. Conservative Islamists in Egypt’s new political elite were outraged — at the women.

“Sometimes,” said Adel Abdel Maqsoud Afifi, a police general, lawmaker and ultraconservative Islamist, “a girl contributes 100 percent to her own raping when she puts herself in these conditions.” The increase in sexual assaults over the last two years has set off a new battle over who is to blame, and the debate has become a stark and painful illustration of the convulsions racking Egypt as it tries to reinvent itself.

Under President Hosni Mubarak, the omnipresent police kept sexual assault out of the public squares and the public eye. But since Mr. Mubarak’s exit in 2011, the withdrawal of the security forces has allowed sexual assault to explode into the open, terrorizing Egyptian women.

Women, though, have also taken advantage of another aspect of the breakdown in authority — by speaking out through the newly aggressive news media, defying social taboos to demand attention for a problem the old government often denied. At the same time, some Islamist elected officials have used their new positions to vent some of the most patriarchal impulses in Egypt’s traditional culture and a deep hostility to women’s participation in politics.

The female victims, these officials declared, had invited the attacks by participating in public protests. “How do they ask the Ministry of Interior to protect a woman when she stands among men?” Reda Saleh Al al-Hefnawi, a lawmaker from the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, asked at a parliamentary meeting on the issue.

The revolution initially promised to reopen public space to women. Men and women demonstrated together in Tahrir Square peacefully during the heady 18 days and nights that led to the ouster of Mr. Mubarak. But within minutes of his departure the threat re-emerged in a group attack on the CBS News correspondent Lara Logan. There are no official statistics on women attacked — partly because few women report offenses — but all acknowledge that the attacks have grown bolder and more violent.

By the second anniversary of the revolution, on Jan. 25, the symbolic core of the revolution — Tahrir Square — had become a no-go zone for women, especially after dark.

During a demonstration that day against the new Islamist-led government, an extraordinary wave of sexual assaults — at least 18 confirmed by human rights groups, and more, according to Egypt’s semiofficial National Council of Women — shocked the country, drawing public attention from President Mohamed Morsi and Western diplomats.

Hania Moheeb, 42, a journalist, was one of the first victims to speak out about her experience that day. In a television interview, she recounted how a group of men had surrounded her, stripped off her clothes and violated her for three quarters of an hour. The men all shouted that they were trying to rescue her, Ms. Moheeb recalled, and by the time an ambulance arrived she could no longer differentiate her assailants from defenders.

To alleviate the social stigma usually attached to sexual assault victims in Egypt’s conservative culture, her husband, Dr. Sherif Al Kerdani, appeared alongside her.

“My wife did nothing wrong,” Dr. Kerdani said.

In the 18 confirmed attacks that day, six women were hospitalized, according to interviews conducted by human rights groups. One woman was stabbed in her genitals, and another required a hysterectomy. (Continue Reading.)

 

Posted 27 Mar 13 by Answering Muslims

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

Muslim Brotherhood 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.

 FOX News 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.

Amir Ayad lies in a hospital bed after he was beaten by Islamic hardliners who stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo.

“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.

 

Posted 27 Mar 13 by BNI

Muslim Brotherhood ‘paying gangs to go out and rape women and beat men protesting in Egypt’ as thousands of demonstrators pour on to the streets

• Activists claim there have been nearly 20 attacks in the last 10 days
• Country has seen rise in mob sex attacks on protestors in the last year
• Demonstrators in Tahrir Square yesterday protested against a draft constitution approved by allies of President Morsi
• Muslim Brotherhood today marched in support of the president

By Ruth Whitehead

PUBLISHED: 07:37 EST, 1 December 2012 |

Egypt’s ruling party is paying gangs of thugs to sexually assault women protesting in Cairo’s Tahrir Square against President Mohamed Morsi, activists said.

They also said the Muslim Brotherhood is paying gangs to beat up men who are taking part in the latest round of protests, which followed a decree by President Morsi to give himself sweeping new powers.

It comes as the Muslim Brotherhood coordinated a demonstration today in support of President Mohamed Morsi, who is rushing through a constitution to try to defuse opposition fury over his newly expanded powers.

Danger: women protesting in Cairo’s Tahrir Square face the increased danger of sexual assault by large gangs of men

Egyptian supporters of Muslim Brotherhood taking part in a demonstration near Cairo University, in Cairo, in support of President Mohamed Morsi’s recent constitutional declaration

Just 24 hours earlier around 200,000 people gathered in Tahrir Square, the heart of last year’s revolution which toppled President Hosni Mubarak, yesterday to protest against a new draft constitution.

Large marches from around Cairo flowed into the square, chanting ‘Constitution: Void!’ and The people want to bring down the regime.’

Posted on 1 Dec 12 by dailymail.co.uk

Benghazi killers among terrorists poised to strike US targets, Israel and Egypt

DEBKAfile Special Report October 23, 2012

Salafist funeral in Gaza

The counterterrorism forces of Israel, the US, Egypt and Jordan have gone on elevated terror alert ahead of the three-day Muslim festival of Eid al Adha starting Thursday night, Oct. 25, debkafile reports.
They are acting on word received in the last ten days of preparations by Salafi and al Qaeda cells in Egyptian Sinai to unleash coordinated terrorist attacks on US and Egyptian targets in Sinai and across the border in Israel. The jihadis are bent on revenge for Israel’s targeted killing on Oct. 13 of Hisham Saidni and Abdullah al-Ashqar, two senior commanders of their Sinai-Gaza network, the Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen
Israel’s IDF Sagi-512 Brigade and Shin Bet units are on guard around the Gaza Strip and Egyptian border; Egypt’s military, Interior Ministry and security forces are on high alert in Sinai; and the Multinational Force of mostly US units are on the ready at both its Sinai bases –  Al-Gora near El Arish in the north and Sharm el-Sheikh in the south.
The US Special Forces unit posted last month on Jordan’s Syrian border was hurriedly transferred to the Red Sea port of Aqaba with a fleet of helicopters, in case the MFO comes under attack.

The Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen is a roof organization of some 6,000 Egyptian, local Bedouin, Palestinian, Jordanian, Saudi, Yemeni and Libyan terrorists who subscribe to Al Qaeda’s jihadist philosophy. From their strongholds in central and southern Sinai, they have carried out most of the most recent spate of attacks on Israel and on Egyptian military targets in the peninsula.
After their combined assault of July 18 on Egyptian and Israeli military targets, in the course of which they massacred 18 Egyptian troops, Cairo announced the launch of a major offensive to root the terrorists out of their Sinai lairs. But four months on, the jihadis remain in control of large tracts of the rugged Sinai desert. And last week, they received a large increment from Libya. The Libyan reinforcements were discovered on their arrival in Sinai Oct. 15 with a large quantity of weapons including missiles, ready for the forthcoming Eid offensive.
Among them were some of the perpetrators of the murderous attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11which killed four Americans at the US consulate.
On the day they arrived, Al Qaeda’s Shumoukh Al-Islam website ran a eulogy for Hisham Saidni with a warning: “The blood of the Muslim heroes is not cheap, nor is it shed in vain. The Jews will pay dearly for every drop they spill and Israel should expect a devastating response.”

At the beginning of the week, intelligence watchers picked up the sudden disappearance of thousands of jihadis from their Sinai posts as though the earth had swallowed them up. It is suspected they have regrouped in locations closer to their targets ready to move.

This incoming intelligence prompted the US Statement Department’s travel advisory of Tuesday, Oct. 23, for US citizens visiting Sinai and Israel’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz’s warning that coordinated terrorist attacks may be in store from Sinai and its northern borders with Lebanon and Syria.

Posted on 23 Oct by DEBKAfile

Attack Against U.S. in Egypt: Not a Surprise

September 12th, 2012

By Raymond Ibrahim

The United States embassy in Egypt is under siege.  According to Fox News:

Islam’s Shehadah flag raised over the U.S. Embassy in Cairo

“Mainly ultraconservative Islamist protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt’s capital Tuesday and brought down the flag, replacing it with a black flag with an Islamic inscription to protest a video attacking Islam’s prophet, Muhammad.  Hundreds of protesters marched to the embassy in downtown Cairo ….  Dozens of protesters then scaled the embassy walls, went into the courtyard and took down the flag from a pole. They brought it back to the crowd outside, which tried to burn it, but failing that, tore it apart. The protesters on the wall then raised on the flagpole a black flag with the Muslim declaration of faith on it, ‘There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.’ The flag, similar to the banner used by al-Qaida, is commonly used by ultraconservatives around the region….  By evening, the protest grew with thousands standing outside the embassy, chanting ‘Islamic, Islamic. The right of our prophet will not die.’ A group of women in black veils and robes that left only their eyes exposed chanted, ‘Worshippers of the Cross, leave the Prophet Muhammad alone.’”

Some clarifications for context: Islam’s black flag with the Shehadah and sword inscription is not an al-Qaeda banner but rather Islam’s most ancient banner, popularized by the Abbasid caliphs in the 800s.  In other words, these protesters were not imitating al-Qaeda; rather they—and al-Qaeda—are imitating Islam’s heritage, replete with jihad against the infidel.  Same with the phrase “worshippers of the cross”—Islam’s ancient appellation for the hated Christians.

The reason behind this latest rampage is Muslim outrage over the appearance of a film deemed offensive about the Islamic prophet Muhammad.  It is not exactly clear who made the video, though Egyptian expatriates and Copts are being accused, possibly in conjunction with Pastor Terry Jones.  In other words, the reason for this latest bit of Muslim outrage is once again the issue of free speech—in the same camp of Danish Muhammad cartoons, burned Korans, and any number of other freedoms of expression exercised by non-Muslims, and even Muslims.

The U.S.’s formal response to this terror campaign against its embassy and the desecration of the American flag has, once again, been to lay the blame on free speech. In a statement, the U.S. said, “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals [film makers] to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims—as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.  We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.”

Interestingly, while very concerned about the “religious feelings of Muslims,”  the U.S. embassy in Egypt had nothing to say about the fact that, right before it was attacked, a Christian man in Egypt stood on trial for “insulting” Islam—even as a throng of Muslims besieged the court-house, interrupting the hearing and calling for the man’s death.  Apparently appeasing thin skins is more important than speaking up for those whose lives are at stake—not just Christian Egyptians, but now U.S. employees—over issues of freedom.

Left unsaid and unknown in any Western media is the fact that the U.S. embassy has long been under threat, but for different reasons.  Earlier, the Egyptian paper El Fagr reported that Jihadi groups in Egypt, including Islamic Jihad, the Sunni Group, and Al Gamaa Al Islamiyya had issued a statement threatening to burn the U.S. embassy in Cairo to the ground unless all the Islamic jihadis currently imprisonment and in detention centers in the U.S. including Guantanamo Bay were released:

“The group, which consists of many members from al-Qaeda, called [especially] for the quick release of the jihadi [mujahid] sheikh, Omar Abdul Rahman [the 'Blind Sheikh'], whom they described as a scholar and jihadi who sacrificed his life for the Egyptian Umma, who was ignored by the Mubarak regime, and [President] Morsi is refusing to intervene on his behalf and release him, despite promising that he would. The Islamic Group has threatened to burn the U.S. Embassy in Cairo with those in it, and taking hostage those who remain [alive], unless the Blind Sheikh is immediately released.”

Despite all this—despite longstanding threats to the U.S. embassy, followed by a real attack, culminating with the destruction of the American flag—Victoria Nuland, the U.S. State Department’s spokesperson, speaking in response to this latest attack, said that “none of this suggests that there are hostile feelings for the U.S. in Egypt.”

In fact, none of this is surprising—neither the attack on the U.S. embassy, nor the U.S. government’s head-in-the-sand response, with strong words reserved only for those non-Muslims exercising their free speech rights.  This event also explains the situation in a way that even a child can understand: the more you appease—as the Obama administration has been doing with the Islamic world in ways unprecedented—the more contempt you earn from those you appease, and the more demands will be made of you.   Thus, today, far from being respected as a super-power, the U.S. is increasingly seen as a subdued, contemptuous dhimmi—who must say “how high?” whenever Muslims command “jump!”

Raymond Ibrahim, a Middle East and Islam specialist, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum. A widely published author, he is best known for his book,  The Al Qaeda Reader .  Mr. Ibrahim’s dual-background—born and raised in the U.S. by Egyptian parents —has provided him with unique advantages to understanding of the Western and Middle Eastern mindsets.

Posted on 12 Sep 12 by Radical Islam

[ Editor’s Note: Sad thing is, not only did we (through the unauthorized actions of our Muslim Brotherhood president) help incite riots to help get a hateful, Islamic, Muslim Brotherhood president in office in Egypt, not only did we (through the unauthorized actions of our Muslim Brotherhood president) send troops, unconstitutionally, to Libya to oust Gaddafi and aid the Al-Qaeda (the ones that attacked America) rebels in doing this, not only do we (through the unauthorized actions of our Muslim Brotherhood president) give Egypt 1.5 billion dollars a year to help them become an Islamic/democratic (it will never happen, democracy is considered part of satan) government, but we do not look at this as an Act of War, which, legally it is. We (through the unauthorized actions of our Muslim Brotherhood president) ignore the fact that Obama and Clinton were warned about the attack 48 hours prior to the attack, but did not do anything about it, nor did they even have the Marines use real bullets, we (through the unauthorized actions of our Muslim Brotherhood president) have done nothing but apologize to Muslims for our freedom of speech rights…the COW PATTIE the Muslims are trying to feed us about the anti-Islamic movie that “hurt their little feelings” that was actually produced and was on Youtube for about three months before this 9/11 victory celebration act happened. We (through the unauthorized actions of our Muslim Brotherhood president) have not stopped the financial aid to them for their acts of war, we (through the unauthorized actions of our Muslim Brotherhood president) have done nothing…we have lost a good Ambassador, we have lost face, we look like cowards, we look like dhimmi’s…all this at the whim of the Muslim Brotherhood, through the Muslim Brotherhood’s Trojan horse in the White House…he is setting us up big time so we can fulfill the Brotherhood’s greatest conquest…becoming an Islamic nation, ruled by Shari’a…be warned…]

Muslim Brotherhood’s Mursi declared Egypt president

Obama threatened Egypt with the withdrawal of billions in aid if they did not hand over the country to the Muslim Brotherhood. I warned of this the day the protests started in  January 2011,. I told you.

He said in his book,

Muslim Brotherhood’s Mursi declared Egypt president BBC

Mohammed Mursi is announced as the winner of Egypt’s presidential election

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi has been declared the winner of Egypt’s presidential election run-off.

He won 51.73% of the vote, beating former PM Ahmed Shafiq, the Higher Presidential Election Commission said.

The head of the panel of judges, Farouq Sultan, said it had upheld some of the 466 complaints by the candidates, but that the election result still stood.

The announcement prompted scenes of jubilation in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where Mr Mursi’s supporters gathered.

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January 2011 flashback to a Sandmonkey tweet that was retweeted by Mona Eltahawy, another Egyptian protest lover who was subsequently sexually attacked at one of these “freedom” protests. Of course, I disagreed with Sandmonkey and had my public falling out with him over my insistence that the Muslim Brotherhood was very much a major player in the overthrow of Mubarak and whatever freedom Egyptians had enjoyed under his government.

Flashback January 2011:

As I predicted by Atlas in January 2011, the Islamic supremacist killers have swept the elections in Egypt. Even then the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader was ululating “Prepare for War with Israel”

How the left was deriding me for questioning big media’s narrative of freedom lovers and democracy (here, too). So why isn’t this splashed across the newspages, front pages and broadcast news leads across the country? Instead, these spineless, gutless wonders slithered back under their rocks.

Posted on 24 Jun 12 by Atlus Shrugs

[ Editor’s note: Once again, Obama steps in to help the Muslim Brotherhood take over all secular Muslim or pagan, non-Muslim countries. He brings it to the criminal offense of extortion. And once again, showing his true Muslim brainwashing … I mean training as a child, he knows that the new Egyptian president (the Muslim Brotherhood crony) has vowed, and will proceed to go to war with Israel and try to take Jerusalem, to make it the capital of Egypt and to make it a place for the Islamic global Caliph. If Obama was a Christian like he claims he is, then he would know that the true Biblical prophecy found in the book of Revelation shows that in the war of Gog and Magog, the Opposing Muslim countries will lose big time, without any help except from the power of Yeshua, and Jerusalem will not be taken from Israel. But, overall, the fact is that the Muslim Brotherhood is working on fulfilling their Strategic Memorandum, by taking over secular Muslim and non-Muslim countries to further the Islamic world dominance.]

Muslims in occupied Gaza hand out sweets, celebrate claim of Muslim Brotherhood win in Egypt presidential election

I expect Hamas affiliate, CAIR, will be handing out sweets in Dearborn.

Gazans hand out sweets, celebrate claim of Muslim Brotherhood win in Egypt presidential election (thanks to Robert)

They only hand out sweets on the day of a very great victory, such as 9/11 or the murder of Israelis. Probably they see the latter as in the offing with the Brotherhood claim of victory in Egypt. Remember also: Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood in “Palestine.” So many of those celebrating are themselves essentially Muslim Brotherhood members. “Gazans hand out sweets, celebrate claim of Islamist’s win in Egypt presidential election,” by Ibrahim Barzark for the Associated Press, June 18 (thanks to Twostellas):

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday welcomed the claim of a Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt’s presidential election, distributing sweets, praising God and expressing hope for a new era of warm relations between Gaza and Egypt.

Gaza, a small, densely populated territory, borders Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The strip’s ruling militant Hamas group is a local offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and draws inspiration from the Egyptian organization.

As the Brotherhood claimed victory early Monday in Cairo, dozens of drivers in Gaza City honked their horns and decorated their cars with Palestinian and Egyptian flags, green Hamas banners and posters of Egypt’s Brotherhood candidate, Mohammed Morsi.

Hamas activists distributed sweets at the main intersections across Gaza, and loudspeakers at local mosques blared out messages of joy and victory. Shopkeepers in Gaza’s main commercial center eagerly followed the claim from Egypt.

“The news from Egypt is a great victory for all Muslims and for us in Gaza,” said Sameh Ramdan, a 23-year-old student and Hamas supporter….

Posted on 18 Jun 12 by networkedblogs.com

Ahmadinejad: Iran-Egypt Unity Ends Zionist, Enemies’ Hegemony over Region

News number: 9103082402        2012-06-16

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad underlined Tehran’s preparedness to assist Egyptians in their move towards progress, and stressed that close ties and unity of Iran and Egypt can easily end the Zionists and enemies’ domination over the region.

“If Iran and Egypt stand beside each other, there won’t be any more need for war to root out enemies and Zionists’ domination,” President Ahmadinejad said at a meeting with a group of families of Egyptian martyrs here in Tehran on Saturday.

“Only, the news of unity between Iran and Egypt will make timorous and coward Zionists prefer to escape rather than to stay in the region,” Ahmadinejad noted.

He voiced Iran’s support for Egypt’s progress, and noted, “The Iranian nation is ready to put on the table whatever it has for the sake of Egypt’s progress since it considers Egypt’s progress as its own progress and progress of all free and independent nations …”

In relevant remarks, Supreme Leader’s Advisor for International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati stressed Iran’s willingness to establish friendly ties with Egypt once the country’s new president ascends to power.

“Iran is fully prepared to establish maximum friendship and have utmost intimacy with the new Egyptian government,” Velayati said earlier this month.

“We are optimistic about the future of the two countries given the developments in Egypt,” Velayati stated.

Velayati further said that Tehran and Cairo’s differences are not fundamental, and stressed that resumption of ties between the two nations should take place as a result of their own resolve and should not depend on any third party.

Ever since the collapse of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, the Iranian and Egyptian officials have repeatedly voiced their interest in the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The two capitals are apparently just waiting for the new Egyptian president and government to hold power in the Muslim African nation to start official rapprochement.

Posted on 3 Nov 11 by FARS News Agency
[editor’s note: In Ezekiel 38-39, it talks about Gog and Magog…a war fought with ten nations against Israel. Israel’s God, Jehovah, Elohim, YHVH, will protect Israel (His chosen people) and destroy the oncoming massive army made up of 7 nations (ten “ancient countries” are listed, four of which are currently in Turkey). Persia (currently Iran), Rosh (Russia), and Cush (Egypt and Sudan) are partnering up right now to take over Israel…Russia is, as you know, helping Iran ascertain nuclear weapons power, and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood presidential runner has stated that once he becomes president, he will make sure Israel is defeated and Jerusalem will be the capital and thus, the global caliph will reign there, and Iran vows to “annihilate” Israel off the face of the map. A key point to remember here in this game play is this…the nations that have been prophesied in this war, with the exception of Russia, are Muslim, and then again, the southern countries of the “old Soviet Union” are Muslim, but, once again with the exception of Russia, the Muslim countries are having the Muslim Brotherhood run in their governments to make those countries serious, radical Islamic countries…this article is just showing that the prophesy is starting to line up, and shame on the Christians that feel the Lord will not be coming back for another 50 years or more]

Christians Should “Convert, Pay Tribute, or Leave,” Says Muslim Brotherhood Presidential Candidate?

Over at Gatestone Institute (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I summarize an Arabic report alleging that the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate sees himself as the “second Islamic conqueror” of Egypt, who will enforce jizya on the nation’s Christians. As I point out, it’s hard to believe he would make these statements, considering he’s currently trying to convince everyone — especially Copts and women — that he’s a “moderate,” to get their votes. Still, conquest and subjugation are very much in keeping with the Muslim Brotherhood’s worldview, and slips of the tongue, especially now in Egypt, where passions are flying high, are common enough. You decide:

According to the popular Egyptian website, El Bashayer, Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate, just declared that he will “achieve the Islamic conquest (fath) of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians convert to Islam, or else pay the jizya,” the traditional Islamic tax, or financial tribute, required of non-Muslim “dhimmis.”

In a brief report written by Samuel al-Ashay and published by El Bashayer on May 27, Morsi allegedly made these comments while speaking with a journalist at the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, adding “We will not allow Ahmed Shafiq [his contending presidential candidate] or anyone else to impede our second Islamic conquest of Egypt.”

After his interviewer pointed out that the first Muslim conquest of Egypt was “carried out at the hands of Amr bin al-As [in 641],” he asked Morsi, “Who will the second Islamic conqueror be?” The presidential candidate replied, “The second Muslim conqueror will be Muhammad Morsi,” referring to himself, “and history will record it.”

When asked what he thought about many Christian Copts coming out to vote for his secular opponent, Ahmed Shafiq, Morsi reportedly said, “They need to know that conquest is coming, and Egypt will be Islamic, and that they must pay jizya or emigrate.”

If this interview is accurate, certainly Morsi would not be the first political Islamist in Egypt to say he wants to see the nation’s Christians subjugated and made to pay jizya (see here for more examples)….

Continue reading.

Posted  31 May 12 by JihadWatch

Egyptian Islamist Promises Jerusalem-Based Caliphate

by Daniel E. Rogell  •  May 8, 2012

An independent Islamist promised that the Muslim Brotherhood would destroy Israel and form a new Caliphate with its capital in Jerusalem, reports the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). The speech, given May 1 before thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members and leaders at Cairo soccer stadium, including MB presidential candidate Mohamed Mursi, contradicts assurances of political pragmatism and moderation by the Islamist group.

“We can see how the dream of the Islamic Caliphate is being realized, Allah willing, by Dr. Mohamed Mursi, and his brothers, his supporters, and his political party. We can see how the great dream, shared by us all … The United States of the Arabs will be restored, Allah willing,” said Safwat Higazi, a self-acknowledged anti-Semite with ties to the Brotherhood.

Higazi also announced that the newly established Islamic state would not have its capital in Egypt’s seat of government in Cairo, or in the Islamic holy cities of Mecca or Medina. Rather, it will be in Jerusalem.

“Our cry shall be ‘Millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem,” he said, echoing other speeches he has given on Egyptian television stations for years. Another speaker then led the crowd in a chant of “Banish the sleep from the eyes of the Jews, come on, you lovers of martyrdom, you are all Hamas… Brandish your weapons, say your prayers, and pray to the lord.”

The clip should come as a surprise to no one, Raymond Stock, an American translator and academic who spent two decades in Egypt, told the Jerusalem Post.

“This is what the Muslim Brotherhood really stands for: the extermination of Israel – and Jews everywhere – as well as the spread and control of radical Islam over the world,” he said. “How anyone can fail to see this boggles the mind – yet its denial is virtual dogma in the global mainstream media, US government and Western academia today.”

Posted on 8 May 12 by Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)