The month of Ramadan, which ended earlier this week, proved to be a month of renewed Muslim piety on the one hand, and renewed oppression of non-Muslim minorities on the other. In Nigeria, for example, Islamic militants are living up to the assertion that “Ramadan is a month of jihad and death for Allah,” proving that killing Christians is not only reserved for Christian holidays—like Christmas and Easter, when militants bombed churches killing dozens—but is especially applicable during Islam’s Ramadan.
 Egyptian Christian, Maher Rizkalla: Before and After Ramadan |
Usually, however, Ramadan-related oppression has to do with Muslim perceptions that Christians do not “know their place”—either because the latter openly do things forbidden to Muslims during Ramadan, or because they dare object to the things Muslims do during their holy month.
When it comes to these aspects of dhimmitude, Egypt offers countless examples, past and present, simply because it houses the Middle East’s largest Christian minority, the Copts, and thus offers more opportunities for the intolerant face of Ramadan to reveal itself. Two recent examples follow:
First, according to Coptic websites, on July 27, a diabetic man in Egypt was driving his car in Maadi, a suburb of southern Cairo, when he was struck with great thirst, “which he could not bear” (a side-effect of diabetes, further exacerbated by Egypt’s July weather). He pulled over by a public water source and started drinking water. Soon three passer-bys approached him, inquiring why he was drinking water (among the many things forbidden to Muslims during daylight in Ramadan). The diabetic man replied, “Because I am a Christian, and sick,” to which they exclaimed “you’re a Christian, too!” and begun beating him mercilessly. Other passer-bys began to congregate to see what was happening, but no one intervened on behalf of the diabetic non-Muslim, until he managed to make a dash for his parked car and fled the scene.
Though water is not forbidden to him, this infidel Christian openly violated a principle of Islamic Ramadan, which was deemed a great affront and punished accordingly. This idea that non-Muslims must show respect for Islamic observances is commonplace. Around the same time this story took place, a Christian Lebanese singer was taken to police while in Algeria for smoking in public, and “failing to show due respect to Muslims.” She was released after police warned her that “she was not allowed to smoke in public during Ramadan in Muslim Algeria, even though she was a Christian.”
The second story from Egypt concerns a young Christian doctor, Maher Rizkalla Ghali (pictured above), who was shot by riotous Muslims, including easily-identified Salafis, resulting in the loss of one eye and the likely loss of the other….Continue reading
To any who say that there is no difference between Christians and Muslims, look at this: A Christian was beaten nearly to death for drinking water in violation of an Islamic fast. In contrast, a pair of Malaysian journalists unworthily presented themselves for Communion and proceeded to spit out the Eucharist, OUR GOD, onto the floor, but were permitted to leave uninjured. If we were as bad as the Muslims, those journalists would not have left that church alive. So much for moral equivalency.
It would appear that the only people in America that do not recognize the pure hypocrisy, treachery and evil of the mooslim bruthahood are our president and his sycophants in the msm. That would make you and I naive in the extreme. Perhaps some of the water carriers in the media are blinded by ideology and political expediency, but barak hussein obama knows precisely what he is doing by allowing these terrorist and barbarians access to our government and influence over its policy. Nov 6th cannot get here soon enough. He is our very own hugo chavez and he must be defeated this fall.
Islam is of the world, and the world loves it’s own.
Jesus was persecuted. Those who follow him will ne hated by the world.
Islam is law. Islam is The Shari’ah. Islam is the Judge, the Jury, and the Executioner.
Until the West gets it through their skulls that it’s not “just a religion”, but it’s the very law itself, they’re just lining themselves up to be beheaded.
Mr. Ibrahim, though I appreciate your sentiments and admire your courage, I have this tiny little quibble with your posting habits here…
You seldom post a complete article!
Perhaps I speak only for myself in this, but when I pull up an article here at PJ Media, I expect to get the whole thing, not a teaser that requires me to go to another site for the peroration. The Web isn’t a newspaper; it has neither page nor column restrictions. Please post completed pieces here!