by Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n
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Two teenage Coptic girls, cousins, were recently kidnapped and then “sold” in Minya, Egypt \u2014 the same region where a Coptic church was recentlyattacked and desecrated<\/a>. I tried to find this story in English-language media and, as expected, found nothing, except for one report in\u00a0Al-Masry Al-Youm<\/a><\/em>titled “Clashes between police and Coptic protesters in Minya” \u2014 as if that’s the important story (as usual, the media prefers headlines portraying harried Christian minorities as equally culpable as their Muslim persecutors, thereby justifying use of the preferred phrase, “sectarian strife<\/a>“).<\/p>\n At the end of the\u00a0Al-Masry Al-Youm<\/em>\u00a0report, we get a trailing sentence alluding to “claims” that two Christian girls “were abducted by Muslims and forced to convert to Islam” as the reason why Copts were demonstrating and clashing with the police in the first place.<\/p>\n One must again turn to Arabic sources for the telling details. I have put together the following narrative and quotes based on these two\u00a0Arabic<\/a>\u00a0reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n The two girls, Christine Azat (aged 16) and Nancy Magdi (aged 14) were on their way to church Sunday, June 12, when they were seized. Their abductors demanded $200,000 Egyptian pounds for their release. The people of the region quickly put their savings together and came up with the ransom money; but when they tried to give it to the kidnappers, they rejected it, saying they had already “sold” the girls off to another group which requires $12 million Egyptian pounds to return them.<\/p>\n Christine’s father, who has been harrying the police since the minute he discovered the girls were kidnapped \u2014 to little avail \u2014 says he and his family “have been in a living hell since Christine’s abduction.” Nancy’s father laments that “My daughter has not even outgrown childhood; she is only 14 years old, the youngest in the family, our baby\u2026.Since her disappearance my household has been living in continuous depression, misery, and weeping.”<\/p>\n Some have tried to pass the usual rumor that the girls “willingly” ran off and converted to Islam, but even Egyptian officials reject this, saying that Al Azhar, which is the institution that formally recognizes conversions to Islam, has not acknowledged the conversion of underage minors.<\/p>\n What will become of Christine and Nancy? Since the exorbitant ransom will likely not be raised, will the teenage girls be killed \u2014 like the Christian Iraqi youth who was recently\u00a0beheaded<\/a>\u00a0when his family couldn’t ransom him from his abductors? Probably not; as females, their lot is to be raped, enslaved, and sold off to some rich, depraved man who believes it his divine right to own infidel sex-slaves.<\/p>\n Therefore, next time you hear about an Egyptian Muslim preacher boasting that Islam permits Muslims to\u00a0abduct and ransom infidels<\/a>\u00a0as a great way to make a living and own female sex-slaves, or when you hear about a Kuwaiti political activist praying to Allah that Kuwait would formally\u00a0institutionalize sex-slavery<\/a>, do not brush these aside as mere words, for here are their fruits.<\/p>\n \u00a92011 Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com Two teenage Coptic girls, cousins, were recently kidnapped and then “sold” in Minya, Egypt \u2014 the same region where a Coptic church was recentlyattacked and desecrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33,227],"tags":[366,192,1035,30,708,1018,677],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-EF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6338,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/walls-of-hate-anti-christian-graffiti-vandalizes-egypt\/","url_meta":{"origin":2521,"position":0},"title":"Walls of Hate: Anti-Christian Graffiti Vandalizes Egypt","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/ RaymondIbrahim.com With the ousting of Muhammad Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood, the homes and churches of Egypt\u2019s Christians are seeing an unprecedented rise in anti-Christian graffiti. \u00a0The following are some of the pictures that were recently disseminated, captioned with translation of graffiti and location information. \u00a0The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egypt"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/egypt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raymondibrahim.com\/_admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7398,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/egypt-christian-arrested-for-using-home-as-church\/","url_meta":{"origin":2521,"position":1},"title":"Egypt: Christian Arrested for Using Home as Church","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com A Coptic Christian man in Egypt has been arrested on complaints from local Muslims that, without a permit, he has\u00a0converted his home into a church\u00a0and is supposedly even holding religious rituals. 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