The abduction of a Christian girl kidnapped in Egypt Islam her mother's condition to Returned

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News and reports from our correspondents : My daughter was forced Islamization of the name was changed in the card from Selma to Justina.

In one instance, the college gave this young man a bottle of mineral water to drink and told her, "Drink the water de-sterile" and after drinking this water has changed her mind completely.

There is a prosecutor and a relative of the man who kidnapped my daughter. • ask you to connect the complaint to the whole world .. Because I have no one my daughter is the only Cindy. Books: George Bushra - particularly Christians Uniting A dangerous precedent in a kidnapping of Coptic girls in Egypt by Muslim youths, a young Muslim man named Mahmoud Hassan Deeb Mohammad Omar, a student of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Sohag, and resident children in the village of Ghazi of the city of Sohag, Gerga, "south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo," Coptic girl kidnapped colleague in college called "Justina Safwat Ghattas," resident city of Nag Hammadi, The Boslmtha, but it is a condition to her mother to enter Islam in order to return her daughter, said the girl's mother called "sincerity Abdel-Nour," said her daughter had been kidnapped

on May 17, 2007 at the hands of the young man mentioned and Mokhttefha "he said, had been in college in front of colleagues that his brothers living and commercial projects companies in Abu Dhabi, and came to my daughter learned this, she told me that there is a colleague at the college, his brothers and sisters of their projects in Abu Dhabi, and pointed to ask the colleague help my son holds a diploma in obtaining a visa to Abu Dhabi, thus, my daughter and then offered her colleague on the subject, agreed to help my son.

He told his brothers in this matter and agreed to send a VISA, and we then collect money visa and collected about 7 thousand pounds and take a Muslim man, and then began Eetmatal and sidestepping the issue and confirmed that the girl's mother at one point it at the college gave this young bottle of mineral water to drink and told her: "Drink water de-sterile", and after drinking this water has changed her mind completely, and returned home, after she returned directly contacted by this young man and told her: "revision of the article Sports Center Horus Sohag", asked me to go to attend the audit in order to succeed, So I went and since then did not return until this moment, the girl's mother explained that it had informed the state security and police went to the father of the young man in the village said to her, "I do not know his place" with that he knows everything about him is helping him.

Also confirmed the girl's mother for "Copts United" after it informed the State Security for the young, the young man immediately contacted, and threatened her and told her: "Inti Btaheddine Tbghei and state security certificate was they who Msaeidini," and stipulated that the young girl's mother to enter the hijacked Islam, until her daughter returns, she said that the Islamization of the young daughter by force, and changed its name in the card from Selma to Justina, and the girl's mother suggested that there is a prosecutor and a relative of a kidnapped girl, in the same context, the girl's mother that her daughter was on good terms with God and was serving in the Church, and everyone attests to her good, and called Connect Srechtha Astagattha and to the world after it has been to ignore the messages, complaints and SOS sent by the state security police and the Presidency, Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak and Gamal Mubarak, because the girl is with her only daughter of her brother, which was support in the life.

Mobile rape message

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Congratulations, we have earned a laptop .. Congratulations You've won a number of the latest Mobile .. Congratulations, you win a plasma screen.

These samples of the texts of messages of up to some Christian girls in the schools, and Assiut Upper Egypt Mobaillathn which explains the sender of the sender of the way to receive the award, which has shed the saliva of her phone and some of them already go to receive the award at the place or apartment or company mentioned in the letter and then start bargaining and tricks Altraeib until you reach more dangerous phase of a rape and photographed in situations and Alnhaip against us as it is known from previous events abduction and rape of Christian girls ..

This is part of the horror in control of the parents of students who hold a mobile phone and is the cause of Ziaahn and of course a question may arise about how to know Orkamhn but the answer is simple as the exchange of numbers between colleagues has become common among them without putting into account the extent to which the second party to this figure. . Dominates county school state of anxiety, fear and horror of what they're planning for Christian girls amid the lack of parental awareness and educate their sons and daughters and the absence of central control and a strong security to arrest the perpetrators of these plots?!!

Nag Hammadi crime: a destruction of the concept of the State

Written by Gamal Hindawi’s blog
Bikya Masr



By a simple calculation and from a full perspective we can discuss the long term human bleeding and the excessive depletion of the wealth, resources and the destiny of the Arab peoples. The bloody sacrifices and the tears of the movements espousing the slogans of the revolutionary process of liberation and emancipation and anti-colonial powers … and compared to the results shown day-to-day, it is the most losing deal in human history as a whole.

After decades of bitter years … and after many experiences of independence and the establishment of the so-called nation states, still some of the events that we go through and make us live with a struggle, compel us – from time to time – to revise our concepts about the phrases that we are tired of repetition and routine self-perpetuating about belonging and citizenship, social justice and the expression of these phrases on the ground of reality.

Some of the calamities that strike the national reconciliation by surprise and that affect the social fabric in its deepest infrastructure such as the one that took place in Nag Hammadi, may compel us to wonder about the semantic concept of the state in the media and political practice, and the rhetoric of the ruling Arab regime.

The State, as a ruling system, expresses the directions of the people, and in light of the notoriously illegitimate encroachment of the ruling regime and through collaboration and conspiracy with the politicized and mercenary religious system, the State has turned into a tool of suppression and dedicated to terrorize the intellectuals and to impose authoritarian ruling concepts that can not be justified and its existence is only to deprive citizens of their basic rights ensured by the constitution and the basics of belonging to their country.

Citizens’ right for freedom of choice is the main threat to the state. The peaceful transfer of power is an end to the regime that can not be offset by any arrangements for any kind of “safe exit.”

In other words, the State here has turned into a method of marginalization and exclusion rather than a tool of the formation of a coherent collective consciousness and national identity and unity. The official Arab political regime has historically failed in launching a project or a political process leading to a binary sort of the State and the Authority, with an emphasis on the primacy of the State as a unifying entity, guarantor of citizenship and fundamental freedoms and distancing itself from sectarian and ethnic divides.

We can even say that the official Arab main concern is the synthesis of the concept of the duo: the ruler and the ruled, through the establishment of a distorted concept of the State adopting delusional slogans in the interpretation and management of community-based intersections, and play its card on these intersections to ensure sustainability of dominating the national decision and control the distribution of financial income of the resources of the nation, turning a blind eye on the practice of inciting a sectarian and racial rift, which is practiced by the scholars of the Sultan under the pretext of doctrinal purity and decency and to refrain from the activation of policies aimed at sowing the seeds of belonging and consolidation in the state system and replacing it by a narrow short-hand formula that does not provide a space for the ethnic minorities and different ideological and philosophical minorities.

This produced the frightening reality, which is reflected in the emergence of sectarian slogans and racism in any friction or a mere criminal incident where its parties are different, ethnically or from different sects. This is a reflection of the tensions experienced by the citizen and that reflects the suffering of the deterioration of the limitations created by the excessive absence of social justice arising from the wrong policies of successive governments of our country.

The blood that has watered the land of NaJ Hammadi was another echo of the blood shed in Kurdistan, Darfur, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Arab ill structured world and was squandered by the destructive policies to national interrelation and popular communication. The policies that sought to disrupt the cohesion of community and dismantling it to ethnic or religious or sectarian references that were set to pounce on the national retreating gains under the pressure of routine weakening of the collective system, which is expressed as nation-state, which threatens and warns of civil war and dismantling the state into small-states and could lead to ethnic cleansing and genocides.

That petty criminal who raised his evil and unjust weapons in the face of his brothers is inevitably convicted and deserves the punishment that is commensurate with the heinous crime, but he shares the indictment, certainly, with the government that has suspended the principles of citizenship and justice. This obscurantist priesthood is also convicted because it did not use the enormous potential dominated by the clout nor the amount of people in spreading the values of tolerance, fraternity and unity.

The killer who committed the crime in Nag Hammadi was expressing a reflection of centuries of incitement and programmed alienation between the components of the same society and collusion between the governance and the scholars of the Sultan who incited racism and sectarianism, which contradicted by the blood of the Copt martyrs slain with their brother Muslim martyr, the security man whose blood was combined into a unity, in which the history, land, honor and determination refuses its collapse.

**translated by Mohamed Abdel Salam

Detained Christians Face Electrocution and Severe Torture by the Egyptian State Security Intelligence

Written by Coptic American Friendship Association
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY, 12, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC

As we have previously reported, the Egyptian SSI has randomly arrested and detained about 40 Christian Copts in Naga Hammadi, Qena on January 8th, a day after a radical Muslim group sprayed Copts after the Eastern Orthodox Christmas prayers with gun fire killing six Copts and seriously wounding nine others.

The SSI intended to blackmail the families of the victims and the head of the local Coptic parish in Qena, Bishop Kirillos, by arresting the Christians asking the bishop to be silent about the incident along with the victims' families. The SSI threatened the bishop not to talk to the media and not to file any law suits against the state government in return of releasing the detainees. However, when the facts about the massacre became public, the SSI began to increase the torture of the Christian detainees, who have not been charged with specific charges to date.

According to recorded voice interviews taken place within the last 2 days with the parents and/or other family members of the detainees, who were finally allowed to see their detained family member where they are imprisoned currently at "al Wadi Al Gadeed" prison, it is confirmed that all of the remaining 15 Copts in prison have been tortured by high voltage electric cables connected to their private parts several times daily, beaten with metal elements, forced to sleep on cold water and spat on their faces.

Several of them had to be seen by prison doctors as they needed catheters for uncontrollable urination. Coptic American Friendship Association has copies of the voice interviews where the family members express in details and tears the current condition of their loved ones who were just released or are still imprisoned. According to their families, the tortured Coptic Christians were also threatened if they do not testify that the Naga Hammadi's bishop had played a role in igniting the violence that they would face ongoing torture and their release would not happen.

It is obvious that the SSI has released the Christian Copts who were under 21 years of age after torturing them for a few weeks to avoid any future legal responsibility. The ones that are still jailed believed to all be over 21 years old. One doctor described the medical and psychological condition of the released Copts as "beyond repair". The names of the detained Copts are:

Wael Milad Samoeel
Fady Milad Samoeel
George Nasry Sadeek
Youhanna Masoud
Mina Boktor Kirolos
Razaik Romany Gadallah
Bishay Maher Zekry
Emad Wanees Mofeed
Hany Nabil Ibraheem
Hany Zaher Ibraheem
Milad Badee Risalah
Mamdouh Fawzy Nasry
Milad Nagaah
Rafaat Refaat Adly
Nashaat Zaher Zekry

The Egyptian SSI has been repeatedly accused of torture by many organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other international commissions as well as Egyptian civil and human rights groups. These organizations have also indicated SSI involvement in sexual abuse and humiliation of detainees (male and female) and for targeted persecutions of Christians.

Coptic American Friendship Association urges the United States Department of State, House's Human Rights Caucus, and Foreign Affairs Committee to immediately communicate with the Egyptian government asking for the release of those innocent Copts who face severe torture because of their religion.

For more information:

Ihab Aziz
Executive Director
Coptic American Friendship Association (CAFA)
Washington , DC . USA

Coptic.American@yahoo.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

703.337.5217 Ph.

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14 February 2010 Morris Sadek
The Muslim Egyptian Government has practiced discriminatory policies against Copts since 1952, which led us to the massacres of Nag Hammadi earlier this year. Accordingly, the American Coptic Assembly in USA continues its diplomatic contacts with one of the states supporting the Coptic cause.

There is a case of disapproval and condemnation from the international community against the Egyptian government after the Nag Hammadi sectarian massacre. Countries like France, Italy, Canada and Great Britain condemned the incident, in addition to many other local and international organizations. Furthermore, the European parliament commented on the massacre of Nag Hammadi and demanded the protection of Copts.

The assembly endorses the Egyptian Liberal Party invitations for an international investigation into the massacre of Nag Hammadi. Also, The Assembly has demanded from the international community and the international trusteeship committee a system developed by the Charter of the United Nations to manage the troubled regions by the decision of the Security Council – to intervene to prevent what can be called a potential “Genocide” of the Copts in Egypt. In this case, the supreme powers will intervene and the United Nations’ mission in Egypt would be the management of the Egyptian military, Egypt’s diplomatic affairs and Homeland Security. NATO also could interfere to stop this genocide and hand over power to a transitional government.

Finally, the National American Coptic Assembly pays a special thanks to the United States Congress, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and all Copts worldwide for supporting the Coptic cause and protesting the prosecution of Copts in Egypt.

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Problems on hold:Confounding the Coptic issue

In his recent meeting with the delegation of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Minister of Religious Endowments Hamdi Zaqzouq said that the bill for a unified law for building places of worship would be placed on the agenda of the Egyptian Parliament in its next round. Dr Zaqzouq’s declaration was highly applauded by the Shura Council (the upper house of Egypt’s Parliament) members, but the question which begged an answer was why the delay till the next round, even though the current parliamentary round extends till next July. Five months to go should be ample time to debate the bill, so why the procrastination—given that the bill has been with Parliament for five years now?

Multiple factors strongly call for a unified law for building places of worship. In view of the cumulative build-up of Coptic grievances, and in the aftermath of the Nag Hammadi crime, we cannot afford to delay the implementation of measures to resolve the sectarian problem. The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) said, in its last annual report, that the passage of a unified law for building places of worship would put an end to one of the chief causes of sectarian strife in Egypt. Again, in a declaration it issued in the wake of the Nag Hammadi crime, the NCHR said the passage of the law would be pivotal in ending religious discrimination among Egyptians. Moreover NCHR vice president Kamal Abul-Magd said that delaying the passage of the law would send out an erroneous message that the State was turning a blind eye to religious discrimination and disregarding the resultant sectarian strife.
I was unable to join in the Shura Council members’ applause of Dr Zaqzouq. Frustrated, I was wary about the seriousness of the government in tackling the root of the Coptic problem. Instead of applying prompt measures to reform the sectarian scene, the government has embarked on an attempt to beautify its image before a foreign delegation on an annual visit to Egypt. It is not as though the government is being cornered into a defensive stance, since the Copts in Egypt are far from opting for an internationally-imposed solution to their problem. Muslims and Copts alike have made it clear that Coptic grievances should be resolved inside Egypt, basing on citizenship rights. In this light, the government’s move to delay placing the bill before Parliament to a future round is unfathomable and unjustified.
Dr Zaqzouq said that the law, once passed in the future round, would once and for all end all Coptic complaints about difficulties in building churches. Rifaat al-Said, head of the Tagammu Party’s parliamentary authority in the Shura Council, said that the law would terminate the tensions resulting from official bias against a sector of Egyptians. Mamdouh Qinawi, representative of the free Constitutional Party in the Shura Council, said that the problems of building churches ought to be resolved since there was no alternative to rooting the citizenship rights of Copts. All these and similar declarations make it eminently obvious that Egypt is in dire need for a unified law for building places of worship. Why then place it on the backburner till a future parliamentary round?
This delay on the part of our executive authority may come as no surprise, however, if one is to take a closer look at the Egyptian legislative authority. The parliamentary fact-finding commission to Nag Hammadi issued a dire warning that sectarian crimes are bound to escalate unless prompt measures are taken to contain the inflammatory sectarian scene. But what should Speaker of the Parliament Fathy Sorour say to this? “Muslims and Copts have lived side by side in Egypt ever since Amr Ibn al-Ass conquered Egypt [in the 7th century]. They have continued to share equal rights and duties indiscriminately.” Does Dr Sorour believe that to be a supposedly precise depiction of the reality we are about to embark on reforming? Or is it intentional concealment and embellishment of the facts?
The Speaker of the Shura Council Safwat al-Sharif declared that, under President Mubarak, the Copts have restored ten times as many churches as they did under Mohamed Ali. I admit it was past me to fathom the comparison. Was Mr Sharif implying that Copts are better off now than at any time in history? Or was he implying that the rule of Mubarak could in any way be compared to that of Mohamed Ali who ruled Egypt from 1805 to 1840? The absolute irrelevance of the statement suggests the real problem is being discounted. With such messages emanating from the legislative authority, is it any surprise that the executive authority should delay any positive action? The stalling and side tracking of both authorities is obviously confiscating the direly needed reform which the sorry Nag Hammadi incident brought into focus.

Egypt's Copts fearful amid increasing tensions

By-Jeffrey Fleishman



As the majority Muslim nation turns more conservative, the Christian minority, which has lived in relative peace for centuries, faces an uncertain future. Recent killings and riots add to the fear.

Father Metyas Mankarios ministers to garbage men and runs a newspaper for Coptic Christians from an office crammed with brittle archives above vegetable sellers and fishmongers barking out prices along the muddy roads of a Cairo neighborhood.

Few have it easy here. From dawn until deep into the night, there is the clatter of making a living, no matter how small. But these days, Mankarios, his face engulfed by a graying beard, worries more about the increasing discrimination and resentment from Muslims who attack monasteries and teach their children that Christians are infidels.

"It's dangerous today," he said. "Egypt is going in new directions that are starting to affect the harmony between religions. This attitude is evident not only among ordinary Muslims but among top government and Islamic officials."



Egypt's Copts and Muslims have co-existed for centuries, through spasms of bloodshed and recrimination but mostly in relative peace. In recent years, however, tolerance has ebbed and tensions have multiplied in a predominantly Muslim society that has grown more conservative and inclined to drawing religious distinctions in schools, public offices and in mixed neighborhoods.


The atmosphere was further agitated this month after a bishop received death threats and six Christians attending a Coptic Christmas Eve Mass north of Luxor were killed in a drive-by shooting. The Muslim assailants were reportedly seeking revenge for the alleged rape of a Muslim girl by a Copt.

The killings highlighted years of sectarian unease in the village of Nag Hammadi, where riots erupted immediately and shops and businesses were burned.

A human rights group accused a member of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party of inciting the animosities through his connection to one of the attackers. The group, which filed a lawsuit, alleges that lawmaker Abdel Rahim el Ghoul intervened to have one of the gunmen released from prison days before the shooting. Ghoul has denied wrongdoing, and the prosecutor general's office announced that there was no larger conspiracy.

"We need a parliamentary investigation to find out who was really behind this massacre," said Ashraf Radhi, one of a number of Muslim political activists who condemned the deaths. "It is clear to all of us that the three criminals or mercenaries did not act alone. They were backed by someone with authority."

The shooting roiled deep-seated religious prejudices in a nation where Islamic clerics were outraged by a recent ban on minarets in Switzerland but have been less vigorous in speaking out against abuses or protecting the rights of Copts in their own country.

Nag Hammadi "was not an individual act. It is a political, religious, social and above all a governmental crime," wrote Mohamed Shabba in the independent Nahdet Masr newspaper.

"It is caused by the backwardness of education that is teeming with racism, extremism and contempt for the other. It is also an economic crime because it took place in Upper Egypt, the area that has suffered from government neglect for years."

Others cautioned that the incident should not be overblown and that the religious and clan tensions in Nag Hammadi are not representative of the national mood.

Mubarak was quoted in the state-owned Al Ahram newspaper as saying, "We are one people. We are not fanatics because we are all children of this land, and there is no difference between Egyptian Muslims, Christians and Jews."

Copt's make up about 10% of the nation's population of 82 million. Founded by St. Mark in the 1st century, the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt predates Islam by hundreds of years. But beyond pews and vestibules, the Christian imprint fades: Public schoolchildren of all denominations are taught to recite the Koran as part of Arabic language training, and Egypt's civil laws are based on Muslim Sharia tenets.

The Egyptian Constitution protects religious freedom, but some churches have been attacked, and others encountered years of land disputes and government scrutiny before they were built.

Courts make it virtually impossible for Muslims who convert to Christianity to change their religious identity on national ID cards. Death threats have forced some converts to go into hiding or leave the country.

Al Azhar University's Islamic Research Academy, a leading voice on Sunni Muslim thought, recently suspended publication of a book it had commissioned after Copts protested that the work described Christianity as a form of paganism.

Conservative Islam began arriving in Egypt in the 1970s with migrant workers returning from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. The tenor intensified through the 1990s, and today, even as voices in the media have grown more devout, the Egyptian government works to silence radical Islamic influences but not anger its Muslim population. Copts say this dilemma has left them vulnerable at a time of growing national economic and social pressures. The church leadership prefers diplomacy and has not publicly criticized the Mubarak government.

Awny Mikhail dodged talk of such volatile matters. A Copt, he owns a jewelry store in Cairo, where his customers are as likely to be Muslim women in veils as men with crosses tattooed on their wrists. Boys played marbles in the dirt outside; two police officers sat near another Coptic-owned jewelry shop that was shuttered after a 2008 machine-gun attack that left four Christian workers dead.

"I deal with Muslims every day," he said, while behind him Coptic Pope Shenouda III, whose seat is in Alexandria, was speaking on TV. "I just left my other shop to pick up something in this one. I have two Muslim customers waiting back there alone. They could steal whatever they liked if they wanted to. You have to have trust in people."

He leaned over his counter. "I don't want to see a chain reaction from the Nag Hammadi incident," he said. "The media will try to turn this into something more. Things aren't that bad. Muslims have become more conservative, yes, but I support the government in trying to stop Islamic extremism."

Minutes away, in a neighborhood populated by garbage men, Father Mankarios sat in his office, working on his newspaper, Tibian Battalion, named after a 3rd century band of Coptic soldiers who fought with the Roman army but were later executed for refusing to worship Roman idols. A woman handed him files.

He recalled his boyhood in the 1960s, when, like today, there were symbols of differences between Copts and Muslims: Copts bore the tattooed cross and Muslims a brownish callus on their foreheads, known as the raison, from years of prostrating in prayer. But mostly, he said, the faiths mingled with little anxiety because Copts were less demanding of their rights.

"When I was young, I didn't see all this tension coming," he said. "We got along with Muslims just fine. That's all changed.

"The Egyptian government is not worried about Coptic unrest. We don't have militias or a political party. Copts are no threat to the government. All we can do is shout."

jeffrey.fleishman @latimes.com