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Egypt court sentences four men to hang

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced four men on Wednesday to death by hanging for the 2011 killing of a Coptic Christian priest in his apartment in the southern city of Assiut, state news agency MENA reported.The four were found guilty of killing ... [Published Yahoo! UK and Ireland - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Egypt, Coptic Christians, Crime

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Cynthia McKinney

Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian Plays the Victim Card Again Over Boston

UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, who will be speaking against Israel tomorrow at UC San Diego (no videotaping allowed), is doing his second pony trick by complaining about Islamophobia in the wake of the Boston attack. The Blaze has the report.This ... [Published Campus Watch - May 21 2013]

Entities: Hatem Bazian, Islamophobia, Cynthia McKinney, Boston (Massachusetts, United States), University of California San Diego

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Hosni Mubarak

Morale hits a new low on Egypt stock market

CAIRO: Even for those who crave risk, the Egyptian stock market is a cautionary tale of sobering loss. Daily volume has plummeted from 1 billion Egyptian pounds about $143 million after the 2011 uprising to about 250 million pounds today.The main index, ... [Published The Gulf Today - May 21 2013]

Entities: Egypt, Stock Market, Hosni Mubarak, Nassef Sawiris

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Release of the 2012 International Religious Freedom Report

Suzan Johnson CookAmbassador-at-Large$ for International Religious Freedom$ AMBASSADOR COOK: Thank you, Mr. Secretary. It’s an honor to serve you.Good morning. The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report provides a factual rendering of the status ... [Published Scoop - May 21 2013]

Entities: Religion, Myanmar/Burma, Pakistan, Coptic Christians, Sectarian Violence

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Do Coptic Christians Recognize the Pope?

Copts mourn the death of their pope outside a Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt.Salah Malkawi/ News/Coptic Christians do not recognize the Roman Catholic Pope based in Rome as having religious or spiritual authority over them. In fact, Coptic Christians ... [Published Opposing Views - May 20 2013]

Entities: Coptic Christians, Christianity, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Egypt, Catholic

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Islamist judges and blasphemy charges, new weapons against Christians

: Judges affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist imams are jeopardising the safety and survival of Egypt's Coptic Christians, sources, anonymous for security reasons, told AsiaNews. Backed by controversial Attorney General Talaat Abdhallah, ... [Published Vatican Radio - May 19 2013]

Entities: Blasphemy, judges, Egypt, Complaints

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 4 reports

Blasphemy used to cull rivals

CAIRO â The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, âAll except the Prophet Muhammad.âThe ... [Published Abilene Reporter - May 19 2013]

Entities: Blasphemy, Coptic Christians, Prophet Muhammad

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

Row sparks sectarian violence at Alexandria in Egypt

row between two young men in Egypt?s second city of Alexandria. It then became a family feud and finally mushroomed into clashes between Christians and Muslims that left at least one dead and dozens injured.The violence happened outside a Coptic church ... [Published EuroNews - May 18 2013]

Entities: Sectarian Violence, Alexandria (Egypt), Egypt

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

One dead as thousands of Muslims storm the Al-Azraa Church during attacks on Coptic Christians

The media (and even some blogs) are descrbing this as "sectarina". It's not. It's Islamic supremacism. It's jihad. It's persecuting, oppressing and slaughtering Christians under the sharia. One person was killed in Alexandria Friday night when thousands ... [Published Atlas Shrugs - May 18 2013]

Entities: Coptic Christians, Alexandria (Egypt), Christian Church, Egypt

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead

Officials say the clashes in the city's el-Dekheila suburb erupted when a Coptic man allegedly sexually harassed a Muslim woman.Residents of the area fired birdshot and threw Molotov cocktails at one another during the Friday night fighting.Police say ... [Published Chambersburg Public Opinion - May 18 2013]

Entities: Egypt, Coptic Christians, Sectarian Violence

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Secret Life of Egyptian Pigs

CAIRO — Pigs once played an important economic role for Cairo's Coptic Christians, and helped keep the capital clean. Now, after a controversial culling, they are making a return.A city of 18 million people produces a lot of trash. Much of Cairo's ends ... [Published VOA News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Coptic Christians, Organic, Health Hazard, Cairo

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Benghazi Narrative ShiftWas Perfectly Clintonian

"We´ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing do to with," said Hillary Clinton to the families of the four Americans killed at Benghazi and others gathered at a September 2012 memorial service. ... [Published Lucianne.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Benghazi, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Coptic Christians, Hillary Clinton, Imprison

Quotes

...the "tawatur" (continuously unbroken chain of narration) of the famous "Hadith Thaqalayn" in which Prophet Mohammad (SAWA) has explicitly stated: "I am leaving behind among you Two Weighty Things; the Book of Allah (Qur'an) and my progeny, the Ahl al-Bayt. Hold fast to them and you will never go astray, for the two never part with each other even when they return to me at the Fountain (of Kowsar in the Hereafter)." Among his other works, mention can be made of “Adaab al-Kateb”. He passed away in 328 AH

This Day in History (01-03-1392) [Published IRIB World Service - 13 hours ago]

The report "also documents a continued global increase in anti-Semitism," which cited "expressions of anti-Semitism by government officials, by religious leaders, and by the media, particularly in Venezuela, Egypt and Iran."

US again slates Myanmar on religion [Published Bangkok Post - May 21 2013]

...businessmen as merchants rather than corporate executives who understand wider market forces, and fears they could further undercut the economy. "Neither the president nor those around him are well-informed about economics or business" he said

Morale hits a new low on Egypt stock market [Published Macon Telegraph - May 20 2013]

"I was afraid ofof my own phone because it could be traced" she said. "In Egypt your phone can be traced by anyone."

Mother's love reaches through hardship, danger to retrieve son, Niko [Published Chambersburg Public Opinion - May 19 2013]

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Egypt court sentences four men to hang [Published Yahoo! UK and Ireland - 10 hours ago]
Egypt court sentences four men to hang for kill... [Published The Malaysian Insider - 10 hours ago]
This Day in History (01-03-1392) [Published IRIB World Service - 13 hours ago]
Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian Plays the Victi... [Published Campus Watch - May 21 2013]
US again slates Myanmar on religion [Published Bangkok Post - May 21 2013]
Obama: Serial Liar [Published Frontpagemag.com - May 21 2013]
Freedom of religion scarce in Iran, China [Published Washington Times - May 21 2013]
Morale hits a new low on Egypt stock market [Published The Gulf Today - May 21 2013]
Release of the 2012 International Religious Fre... [Published Scoop - May 21 2013]
US State Department Releases 2012 International... [Published Eurasia Review - May 20 2013]
Morale hits a new low on Egypt stock market [Published Macon Telegraph - May 20 2013]
Do Coptic Christians Recognize the Pope? [Published Opposing Views - May 20 2013]
Blasphemy used to cull rivals [Published Abilene Reporter - May 19 2013]
Mother's love reaches through hardship, danger ... [Published Chambersburg Public Opinion - May 19 2013]
Islamist judges and blasphemy charges, new weap... [Published Vatican Radio - May 19 2013]
One dead as thousands of Muslims storm the Al-A... [Published Atlas Shrugs - May 18 2013]
Washington Post notices sharia in Egypt: "Copti... [Published Atlas Shrugs - May 18 2013]
Row sparks sectarian violence at Alexandria in ... [Published EuroNews - May 18 2013]
Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead [Published Chambersburg Public Opinion - May 18 2013]
One killed in clashes between Muslims and Copts... [Published Al Ahram - May 18 2013]
Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges [Published Stamford Advocate - May 18 2013]
Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges [Published EveningSun.com - May 18 2013]
The Great Benghazi Conspiracy and Republican Fo... [Published Informed Comment - May 17 2013]
Secret Life of Egyptian Pigs [Published VOA News - May 17 2013]
Benghazi Narrative ShiftWas Perfectly Clintonian [Published Lucianne.com - May 17 2013]
Benghazi Narrative Shift Was Perfectly Clintonian [Published American Thinker - May 17 2013]
Islamic Forced Conversions - Past and Present :... [Published Solsticewitch13's BOS - May 17 2013]
The Battle for Control of Al-Azhar [Published Foundation for Defense of Democracies - May 16 2013]
Islamic Forced Conversions ? Past and Present [Published Human Events Online - May 16 2013]

Blogs

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One dead as thousands of Muslims storm the Al-A... [Published Atlas Shrugs - May 18 2013] The media (and even some blogs) are descrbing this as "sectarina". It's not. It's Islamic supremacism. It's jihad. It's persecuting, oppressing and slaughtering Christians under the sharia. One person was killed in Alexandria Friday night when thousands ...
Washington Post notices sharia in Egypt: "Copti... [Published Atlas Shrugs - May 18 2013] Pigs must be flying. The Washington Post actually removed their lips from Morsi's sphincter for a moment to report of the vicious persecution and oppression of Christians in Egypt. Of course they try to blame the ultra-super-duper-'conservative' Salafis ...
The Great Benghazi Conspiracy and Republican Fo... [Published Informed Comment - May 17 2013] John Aravosis at AmericaBlog has been all over the Republican congressmen who forged versions of alleged White House emails on Benghazi and falsified them to the news networks, trying to make it look like there had been a cover-up. Extraordinarily, ...
Islamic Forced Conversions - Past and Present :... [Published Solsticewitch13's BOS - May 17 2013] br />!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--> Follow the Middle East Forum MEF Home \| Research & Writings \| Middle East Quarterly \| MEF @ Facebook \| MEF @ Twitter \| Donate Please take a moment ...
Obamagate: The Focus Is Barack Obama [Published Breitbart Feed - May 15 2013] In Part One of this series, published on Monday, I used the word “Watergate” seven times, openly comparing the scandalous Obama administration to the scandalous Nixon administration. I didn’t know the half of it. Just hours after Part One ran, ...

Audio/Video

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Egyptian police fire tear gas into cathedral to... [Published Reuters Video: Top News - Apr 08 2013]
Clashes after funeral of Egypt Copts [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Apr 07 2013]
VIDEO: Clashes follow Cairo Coptic funeral [Published BBC News Video - World - Apr 07 2013]
VIDEO: Egyptian Copts seek Russian refuge [Published BBC News Video - World - Feb 11 2013]
Egypt's Copts remember church bombing [Published Reuters Video: Top News - Jan 01 2013]

Press Releases

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Christian Copts of California Asking President ... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Apr 11 2013]
Speaker at CSI event: Signs of Religious "Clean... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Nov 30 2012]