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To protect a precious archaeological area that stretches around a church dating back to the fourth century AD, a group of Coptic monks from the Monastery of Saint Macarius have staged a resistance to a road-building project, going so far as to lie down in front of approaching bulldozers.
In light of the targeting of Christians by the Islamic State–particularly in Libya and Syria–Christian Coptics in the United States assembled before the White House this week to demand the Obama administration address the plight of their brethren in the Middle East.
The Egyptian president said last weekend that the need for a “unified Arab force” is growing daily as the region faces threats from jihadists such as the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL).
The Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar University, who is perhaps the most prominent cleric in Egypt, has called for the crucial need for reform in the teaching of Islam to the country’s people.
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During the White House’s counter-extremism summit this week, President Obama emphasized a focus on protecting the nation from “right-wing extremism” while simultaneously continuing his refusal to acknowledge radical Islam as a threat. On Fox & Friends this more, Dr. Sebastian Gorka accused this strategy of placing American lives directly in danger.
A possible American accent was detected in the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) video which showed the slaughter of 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt on a Libyan beach.
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The UK Daily Mail describes the latest Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda video as an “incredible show of force on Europe’s doorstep.” After chopping off the heads of 21 captive Egyptian Christians, the Islamic State staged a parade of jihadi “police cars,” flying the black Islamist flag before a throng of cheering men, women, and children, in a city that looks an awful lot like Benghazi, although other sources place scenes from the video in Derna and Sirte.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration refuses to back Egypt’s attacks against the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL), which were launched after the jihadist group savagely beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians.
The governments of Egypt and Saudi Arabia have expressed outrage over the warm visit Muslim Brotherhood members allegedly received at the White House in January, which the State Department eventually admitted to only after the Muslim Brotherhood members boasted of their visit on social media.
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After a gunman murdered three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, NC, the Twitter hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter trended worldwide.
The deputy chief of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan was sentenced to 18 months behind bars for criticizing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Facebook.
As Libya descends into utter chaos, Italy became the last Western nation to close its embassy. It turns out Italian diplomats aren’t the only ones fleeing North Africa for safer shores, as a wave of some 2,000 “migrants” (as France24 describes them) hit the water in evidently unreliable boats, ran into trouble between Libya and the Italian island of Lamepdusa, and had to call for rescue from the Italian navy.
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The White House tweeted multiple times encouraging people to sign up for Obamacare on Sunday, but said nothing of the Christian hostages slaughtered by ISIS.
The Islamic State terror group released a video on Sunday showing the Islamic jihadis beheading 21 Egyptian Christians who were previously kidnapped in Libya.
(Reuters) – Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show the militant group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya.
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The latest issue of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group’s Dabiq magazine features a section purportedly showing the abduction of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians.
While the American media fretted over the career futures of Brian Williams and Jon Stewart, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to Egypt in a decade, exploiting America’s increasingly tenuous relationship with its long-time ally. In less than two weeks, Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Egypt and its new President, Adbel al-Sisi. America is on the cusp of losing Egypt.
Most experts observing the meeting in Cairo between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi this week are interpreting it as Egypt’s way of letting the Obama Administration know there are other super-power fish in the sea. Judging by the report published in the State-run Xinhua press, China thinks something a bit more serious is going on: sunset for America’s status as the premiere world power.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi agreed to work together to fight against terrorism in the world. Putin also promised Sisi to help the country build a nuclear power plant.
