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8 Coptic girls being abducted
The world is talking about it, people have seen the brutality of Muslims in Egypt towards the Egyptian Christians and the world touched the reality first hand. Who deny it deserve to die in shame.
For those cowards , If you think Islam is not the reason then tell us what are the reasons that make Muslims Egyptians hate, kill , rape ,and steal their peaceful fellow citizens the Christians Egyptians? WHY this is happening ? Please look in the mirror and ask yourself WHY.....
Enough is enough these organized acts of religious hate are supported by the Egyptian regime and it must come to an end NOW
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8 Coptic girls being abducted
Written by Julia Duin
The Washington Times
7 January 2010
Ten years ago, I was in Egypt interviewing Coptic Christians who described
how persecution by Muslims had become a way of life for them. The situation
is worse now because of increased abductions of Coptic girls, who are forced
into a sham marriage with a Muslim, raped, forced to convert to Islam and
separated for good from their families.
These are girls as young as 12 who are being grabbed off Egyptian streets.
Photos are taken while the girl is being raped to blackmail her into
converting, says Mary Abdelmassih, a Coptic activist.
"She's told the pictures will go to her family," she told me. "They'd rather
die than have that happen."
Today (Jan. 7) being the Coptic Christmas, this as good a time as any to
describe how these kidnappings are at epidemic levels in Egypt and how the
plight of these poor women has become Christian sex slavery.
Because local police are more often than not in collusion with the
kidnappers, the families have to come up with enormous sums to get their
daughters back. If the family is poor, their daughter is gone forever. The
Assyrian National News Agency says very few of the girls who have been
kidnapped since the 1970s ever get returned to their families and none of
the kidnappers have been brought to justice.
For instance, after Myrna Gamal Hanna, a 20-year-old Christian woman, called
her family Sept.. 30 to ask them to rescue her from a forced marriage to a
Muslim, her father and five other men showed up at her Alexandria apartment
and rescued her. Instead of punishing the husband, police tortured Myrna's
family until they revealed where they had hidden the daughter. Then the
family had to cough up several thousand dollars for those who had kidnapped
the girl.
And last October, Samria Markos, a single mother living in Alexandria, said
her 17-year-old daughter, Amira, disappeared while on her way to work at a
plastics factory. She got a call from "Sheikh Mohammed" who told her Amira
was converting to Islam. When she showed up at a local mosque to look for
her daughter, she was told to keep silent or her 9-year-old son would be
killed. The woman and her son fled the area. Amira has not been heard from
since.
Many groups have criticized Egypt for this. On Nov. 10, Christian Solidarity
International sent an open letter to President Obama reminding him of his
human rights speech in Cairo last June and pointing out the Egyptian
government's tacit approval of this scandal.
And late last month, the Pew Forum specifically mentioned the kidnappings
and pinpointed Egypt as one of the world's most religiously repressive
countries.
I called the Egyptian Embassy Tuesday for a response but got none. Judging
from past responses, the government will say these girls ran away with
Muslim men then claimed they were kidnapped to escape the ire of their
families.
But Al Ahram, an Egyptian weekly, said in September that relations between
Christians and Muslims in Egypt are at a "boiling point" over this. The
latest trend, Ms. Abdelmassih says, is that women are being mined for
organs, as happened to an American University student who was kidnapped two
years ago.
"The kidnappers said to get back his daughter, he had to pay 600,000
Egyptian pounds," she said. "When he protested, he was told both of her
kidneys are worth more than that."
Egyptian law forbids the conversion of minors to another religion but that
doesn't seem to apply to these hapless Coptic girls. Ms. Abdelmassih said
the abductions are part of a campaign to Islamicize Egypt's Christian
community.
"It's a business," she said.. "For each Christian girl who gets 'converted,'
there are Islamic charities that give out money to the husband and the
dealers who obtained her.."
. Contact Julia Duin at jduin@washingtontimes.com This e-mail address is
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