Egypt: Muslims attack Christian village on rumor of church opening, block road so fire trucks can’t enter
November 25, 2016 2:11 pm By Robert Spencer 4 Comments
“Fanatic Muslims in the village of al-Naghameesh in Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, attacked the Copts in the village todayele Friday 25 November, on rumour that they were opening a church. A guesthouse owned by Ihab Tamer, a Coptic doctor, was burned, the façades of 10 Coptic-owned houses were damaged, and a house and shop owned by Ishaq Hanna were plundered and looted. The attackers cut the road so that the fire trucks could not enter the village; they also cut off the water and power supply to the village.”
Islamic law forbids Christians to build new churches or repair old ones, so that their communities are in a perpetual state of decline. Reliance of the Traveler, a manual of Islamic jurisprudence certified as “reliable” by Egypt’s very own Al-Azhar University, explains that non-Muslims are:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/egypt-muslims-attack-christian-village-on-rumor-of-church-opening-block-road-so-fire-trucks-cant-enter