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Pope Shenouda Receives State VIPs and the US Ambassador

By   Amr Bayoumi    23/ 10/ 2008

Orthodox Pope Shenouda III received on Tuesday evening some State officials, ministers, governors, political personalities and editors in chief.

They went to the Pope’s residence at the Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo to congratulate him on his return to Egypt after a 4-month treatment trip to the US.
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Egypt’s Nazif visits Tunisia

Egyptian Prime Minister’s visit to Tunisia aims to boost economic ties between two countries.
 

TUNIS - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif began a visit to Tunisia on Wednesday aimed at bolstering economic ties between the two countries, Tunisia’s TAP news agency reported.
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Egypt arrests 32 Muslim Brotherhood members

Brotherhood members arrested in Fayoum, Port Said, Beni Seuif for trying to bring medical supplies to Gaza.
 

CAIRO - Egyptian police have arrested 32 Muslim Brotherhood members over the past two days, the Islamists and security officials said on Wednesday.
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El-Ghazali Harb: NDP Policies Secretariat Does Not Believe in Democracy and Liberalism

By   Mohamed Gharib    22/ 10/ 2008

Democratic Front Party President Osama el-Ghazali Harb said that the NDP Policies Secretariat does not believe in democracy and liberalism.

He said the proof is that Gamal Mubarak, the head of the secretariat, is seeking to inherit power and is exercising exceptional powers within the party.
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Twelve TV Stations Broadcast New Documentary Film about Jesus in Egypt

By   Mohamed Abdel Khalik Messahil    20/ 10/ 2008

The American Trinity Network will broadcast a documentary film on the life of Jesus in Egypt on 12 stations throughout the world under the title ‘Christ and the Lost Years’.
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Islamists Run Egypt’s Judges’ Club: Assiut Judges Chief

By   Mohamed Abdel Qader    20/ 10/ 2008

Justice Rifaat as-Sayed, chief of Assiut Judges’ Club, severely rebuked Egypt’s Judges’ Club and said the political action within it is run by the Islamic trend and that it has turned into a stage for attacking the ruling regime and Kefaya Movement, political parties and the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) always make powerful presence in it.
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Church Hot Welcomes Pope Shenuda’s Return Today

By   Amr Bayoumi    20/ 10/ 2008

Egypt’s Coptic Church receives today dawn the Pope Shenuda III who returns from the US after a 4-month medical treatment of a rift in the thigh he suffered after slippery in his own room at the papal headquarters.
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Peres-Mubarak to meet in Egypt

Israeli President, Egyptian counterpart will meet Thursday at Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss bilateral, security issues.
JERUSALEM - Israeli President Shimon Peres will meet his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak in Egypt this week, Peres’s office said on Monday.
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IRAQ: CHURCH LEADERS PLEAD FOR HELP IN MOSUL

Christians meet with Al-Maliki, ask for troops and provincial voting rights.

ISTANBUL, October 19 (Compass Direct News) - Amid escalating violence against Christians, Iraqi church leaders have appealed directly to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for increased efforts to curb the continuing attacks In Mosul.
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Orthodox Church: Pope Shenouda will return to Cairo onboard private plane to avoid 16-hour transit, his arrival at 6:00 a.m will not affect homecoming reception

By   Amr Bayoumi    19/ 10/ 2008

The Coptic Orthodox Church has said return of Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of S. Mark Episcopate, to Cairo tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m after spending four months in the USA for treatment was due to airline companies’ appointments.
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An appeal to the President

 The twins Andrew and Mario Medhat Ramsis and their mother Kamilia Lutfi were expected to meet reporters at a press conference held by the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organisation (EUHRO) in Cairo last Sunday, but declined to attend at the last minute.
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Coptic Culture

Ancient Egyptian Literature, Part VI (a)
by Ed Rizkalla

“Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”Mt 19. 14

Over the past few weeks, I was blessed, by visiting and extending congratulations to some friends, whom the Lord has blessed their families with new babies. It is always a source of great joy to see new babies, the glimmer of thankful happiness in the eyes of their parents and families, and the hopes for new beginnings and the future. The Christians of Egypt, the Copts, very much like their ancestors the ancient Egyptians, love and cherish children. This is another reflection of some of their cultural traits towards the family, women, and society at large. Edward Wakin (1) notes the Copts’ commitment to the family stating that “this locates the answer to the centuries of Coptic survival, for the family unit is solid…Coptic women have always been more emancipated, and the mother has been in a special position.
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Tycoon denies murdering pop star

Egyptian tycoon and legislator Hisham Talaat Moustafa and a security guard have pleaded not guilty to the murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim.

Mr Moustafa is accused of paying security guard Muhsin Sukkari to kill Tamim in Dubai in July.

Tamim had reportedly broken off a relationship with Mr Moustafa several months before she was stabbed to death.

The trial, involving wealth, politics and showbusiness, has gripped the attention of Egypt and the Middle East.
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Muslim Brotherhood Students Protest Next Monday

By   Aboul Seoud Mohamed and Mohamed Kamel    17/ 10/ 2008

Students who belong to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Group said they would stage a mass demonstration next Monday at all universities all over Egypt to protest against dropping their names from the final electoral rolls of the student elections.
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Azbakiya Church Priest Denies Link with Anti-Islam Book

By   Amr Bayoumi    17/ 10/ 2008
Priest Makari Yunan of St. Mark Church in Azbakiya denied that he is ‘Father Yuta’ who authored an anti-Islam novel.

In his weekly sermon, Priest Yunan said he had heard about the novel but had not read it and knew nothing about its author. “I have no relation with Islamic issues and never talk about them,” he said, accusing those who inserted his name in the issue as seeking his murder.
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Islamists Day Parade Gets Ugly

UPDATE: 10/14/08 In a conversation yesterday with Lars Hedegaard of the Free Press Society in Denmark, he made a very sagacious point. When Muslims lie down on Madison Avenue, it is not an act of prayer, it is an act of territorial control.

Notice how they line up - a line of soldiers, like a file. Rank and file. It’s like an Army lined up for battle. That’s what it is.

When they “paraded” down Madison Avenue, they are alternate yelling Allahu Akbar (Allah is great!) and Takbir! (expansion!)

UPDATE 4:01 am: An important middle of night observation, the rules are changing.

First, the difference between the fighters for free world over in Europe who get attacked, harassed, berated and in some cases physically beaten

and us (in America) is law enforcement. The police in the US do their job. Magnificently. What was striking today was, for the first time since I began covering these demonstrations (three years and counting), an agitator was allowed behind our barrier and permitted to harass the patriots (as seen in the video). Later on, when a Muslim was filming on our side of the barrier in our designated area, screaming allahu akbar, I asked the cop why he was permitted to agitate where we had secured the space with a permit, she replied, “he’s allowed on the sidewalk”.

Also, it’s noteworthy the policemen in uniform dropped to their knees and prayed on Madison Avenue while on duty (see pics). They removed their hats and shoes to pray.  Now look, on their own time they can do what they want. But that is unacceptable. I am sure that shiz would not fly if it were a Christian, Jew, Jehovah, wiccan, pagan …… bottom line seperation of church and state.

It is disturbing to think that the thin blue line is being erased and we only need to look across the pond to see the dark future.

I have been covering these things for three years now and as I have recently said, there has been a palpable change. It is getting uglier, more aggressive - violent even .Today was no different.
The parade was much smaller this year and there were a couple of American flags, most unusual. This is calculated. They do not want to hurt their candidate, Obama, in any way.

At first, I couldn’t find the parade - went to Madison and there was nothing there but I heard a lot of parade noise on 5th Avenue so I walked down and there was this jubilant celebration. Shiny happy people in a sea of America flags - dancing and I’m like, this can’t be it - and it wasn’t. It was the Hispanic Day Parade. What a difference. A sea of colors and smiles - not the parade I was looking for.

I made my way back to Madison and found what I was looking for.  I have a lot of coverage so you will have to click on the link on the bottom of this post. I do not want to slow down the load of this page any more than I have to.
The video must be watch. There is a very nasty incident recorded when the Muslims came over to our side (behind our barrier despite our permit) and began to proselytize - it got ugly.

The goon you’ll see in the video attacking me was on the other end of a rather simple question from me. Why was I given the apes and pigs rap. He gave me a vague answer. That led to another simple question from me. Does Israel have a right to exist? He started in on a history lesson. Was I familiar with Balfour, Rothschild. His eyes were dripping blood.
Rothschild, he told me, was a Zionist not a Jew. I’m both, I told him. Zionist, Jewish and proud as hell. Then Atlas, a hero of mine, showed up with the camera and she takes it from there. She always has my back.
   As I was being led away by the police the goon on the left told me he will rape me 50 times so I remain nameless. Proud, Jewish and nameless.

UPDATE: The Jewess in the video that went one on one with the hostile Muslims wrote this bakcgrounder:

I covered it last year (2007demonstration here).– this was much smaller. Deliberately so. Click link below for full coverage

Lars Hedegaard, President of the Free Press Society in Denmark,  said  in my interview with him last month here and here said:

“You can talk and you can talk and you can preach but people, in the final analysis, people have to feel it on their bodies and in their daily lives

I doubt that America will wake up for what they are in for in until they’re in for it.

When I walk around in New York and I was recently in Washington, I see the signs. The best indication of the level of Islamisation in the country will always be  the number of veiled women in the streets. Once you see veiled women in the streets, you know what’s going to happen”.

Stop the jihad in INDIA!Lots of Iranian flags.

MUSLIM CONVERT ADMITS FAILED SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK

Daily Express

A MUSLIM convert today admitted launching a failed suicide bomb attack on a busy restaurant.

Nicky Reilly, 22, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to attacking the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter.
Reilly, who appeared under the name Mohammad Rashid Saeed Alim, used the internet to research how to make bombs using caustic soda, paraffin and nails.
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Egyptian Delegation Refuses to Attend IPU Session Discussing Ayman Nour’s Problem

By Mohamed Abdel Kader   

The Egyptian parliamentary delegation under the chairmanship of the People’s Assembly speaker Ahmed Fathi Sorour refused to attend yesterday’s Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) session to discuss the report of the parliamentarian human rights committee that calls on the Egyptian authorities to release founder of Ghad Party Ayman Nour for health-related reasons.

The delegation has only sent a message to the session in which it confirmed that Nour receives good medical care in prison and that the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights visited him and made sure that he was in good health.   

“The Egyptian Judiciary refused to release Nour after it assigned the Prisons Department to refer him to a specialized medical committee, which said that he enjoys good health,” Sorour said.

“It seems that IPU had not enough time to study the exchanged letters between Parliament and IPU, which included the medical reports and court rulings issued against Nour as well as decrees of the public prosecutor in this regard,” he added.

Sorour was dismayed at IPU ignoring an important legal point, namely the fact that Nour is accused of rigging official papers. Whoever committed such a crime should be punished regardless of any personal motives.

“In my capacity as a professor of law and MP for 25 years through which I have been insisting on respecting legitimacy and the law, I’m dismayed at the IPU illegitimate intervention in the Egyptian judiciary,” Sorour said.

Muslim, Christian religious leaders blame ‘human greed’ for financial crisis

Christian, Muslim scholars call on world leaders to ensure that poor do not bear brunt of financial crisis.
LONDON - The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams blamed “human greed” for the international financial crisis after a meeting of Christian and Muslim religious leaders on Wednesday.
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Jihad website AqsaTube goes offline

By Crispin Thorold
BBC News, Jerusalem

YouTube has been one of the greatest successes of the internet age.

Millions of people use the video-sharing website every day and it has spawned hundreds of imitators.

One of the most recent is AqsaTube - a site with a particular focus on Palestinian militant videos.
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