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Volume XIII, Issue # 119, May 14, 2011
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MUSLIM "INFERIORITY COMPLEX" KILLS CHRISTIANS
By Raymond Ibrahim
WHY ISLAMISTS IN EGYPT ARE ATTACKING & DESTROYING COPTIC CHRISTIANS & THEIR CHURCHES, HOMES, &
BUSINESSES: HOW ISLAMISTS USE THE RELIGIOUS CONVERSION ISSUE TO MAKE THE LIVES OF COPTS IN EGYPT
A LIVING HELL -- THE MUSLIM GROUP INFERIORITY COMPLEX, ISLAMIST PERCEPTIONS OF THE CONVERSION OF CHRISTIANS
TO ISLAM, & HOW THIS LEADS TO ISLAMIST MASSACRES OF CHRISTIANS
FULL STORY:
Days ago in Egypt, throngs of Muslims (henceforth, "Islamists"), estimated at 3,000, fired guns and rifles and hurled
Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, homes, and businesses in the Imbaba region near Cairo: twelve Christians were
killed some shot by snipers atop rooftops 232 injured; three churches were set aflame to cries of "Allahu Akbar,"
while Coptic homes were looted and torched.
As usual, Egyptian leadership did little to stop this latest rampage. According to eyewitnesses, though the mob opened
fire around 5:30 p.m., the military did not arrive till 10 p.m., providing ample time to terrorize the Copts. One priest said "I
called everyone, but no one bothered to come. I mourn all those young people who died," naively adding "We now
must ask for international protection." Noting that this attack is unprecedented in scope, Muslim liberal writer Nabil
Sharaf el Din said "The Army is either incapable [of stopping anti-Christian violence] or is an accomplice to the Salafis
[Islamists]."
So what triggered this latest bit of Salafi savagery or, as the mainstream media calls it, "sectarian strife"? Islamists
claim that a Christian girl converted to Islam and the Coptic Church responded by abducting her and torturing her into
renouncing Islam. Hence, the wild rampage was part of a "rescue" effort.
This issue of Christian women supposedly converting to Islam, only to be kidnapped by the Coptic Church is the
Islamists' latest excuse to make Coptic life a living hell (especially ironic since the well-documented reality in Egypt is
the opposite: Islamists regularly kidnap and force Christian women to convert to Islam). Indeed, days before this
rampage, thousands of Islamists marched in front of St. Mark Cathedral, Coptic Pope Shenouda's residence, demanding
the "release" of other Christian women two wives of clergy, whom Muslims insist also converted to Islam, only to be
abducted and tormented by the Coptic Church to return to Christianity.
(The notion of torturing people into returning to their original religion obviously comports well with Muslim logic: aside
from the other Sharia schools, which recommend outright execution of apostates, the "liberal" Hanafi school, which is
dominant in Egypt, maintains that apostate women should merely be imprisoned and beaten till they come to their
senses and return to Islam.)
That these Coptic women have publicly insisted that they never converted to Islam does not seem to matter much; one
of them, Camelia Shehata appeared on video months ago proclaiming that she will "live and die as a Christian"; she
appeared again last week with her priest husband and young child, emphatically denying that she ever converted to
Islam, imploring Muslims to leave them in peace.
This supposedly "chivalrous" behavior "rescuing" damsel converts to Islam, even when they insist that they never
converted highlights the Islamic world's obsession with the issue of conversion: while it is known that those who
convert out, the apostates, should be put to death, few people are aware that those who convert in against their will
or not, based on false rumors or not are a great source of validation for Islam, and thus must be secured.
Even the West has been dragged into this obsession such as the persistent rumor that the late Jacque Cousteau
embraced Islam, prompting the Cousteau foundation to issue a letter verifying its founder never converted, and lived
and died as a Catholic Christian.
Indeed, a new Arabic book, Al-Quran Yaqum Wahdu which consists of 33 anecdotes of Western
intellectuals converting to Islam after supposedly being bowled over by the truths of the Koran lists
Cousteau and Islam critic Henryk Broder as its very first two examples, despite the fact that, back in the real world,
everyone knows they never converted. One is left wondering how many, if any, of the other 31 anecdotes are true.
In an insightful Arabic op-ed, Muslim intellectual Khaled Montaser elaborates on why Muslims are obsessed with
converts:
"We Muslims have an inferiority complex
feeling that our Islamic religion needs constant,
practically daily, confirmation by way of
Europeans and Americans converting to Islam.
What rapturous joy takes us when a European
or American announces their [conversion to]
Islam proof that we are in a constant state
of fear, alarm, and chronic anticipation for
Western validation or American confirmation
that our religion is 'okay.'"
Discussing how the Arab world exulted when it erroneously thought that the German writer Henryk Broder had
accepted Islam based on sarcastic remarks he had made Montaser wrote:
". . . but we are a people incapable of
comprehending sarcasm, since it requires a
bit of thinking and intellectualizing. And we
read with great speed and a hopeful eye,
not an eye for truth or reality. Some of us
are struck with blindness when we read
things that go against our hopes."
And there it is: just as Islamists refuse to face reality concerning socalled Western converts, so do they refuse to
face reality concerning socalled Coptic converts to Islam. The only difference, of course, is that Copts live under
Islamic authority hence, all the death and destruction visited upon Egypt's indigenous Christians whenever
Islam's inferiority complex flares up.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Egypt, Arabs, & the Middle East
North Africa -- The Arab States of Islamic North Africa
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Raymond Ibrahim, a historian of Islam, Islamism and the Middle East, is the Associate Director of the Middle East Forum,
a guest lecturer at the National Defense Intelligence College, and the editor of The Al-Qa'ida Reader, a collection
of tranlations of key texts and documents of the Islamist movement. Ibrahim's translations of the religious texts and
political propaganda comprising this collection help readers comprehend the origins, development, history, and serious
danger of the Islamist war doctrines of Usama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Founders of Al-Qa'ida and
implacable enemies of the U.S.A. and the West.
The foregoing article by Raymond Ibrahim was originally published in Front Page Magazine, May 14, 2011, and
can be found on the Internet website maintained by the Middle East Forum, a foreign policy think tank which seeks to
define and promote American interests in the Middle East, defining U.S. interests to include fighting radical Islam,
working for Palestinian Arab acceptance of the State of Israel, improving the management of U.S. efforts to promote
constitutional democracy in the Middle East, reducing America's energy dependence on the Middle East, more robustly
asserting U.S. interests vis-ΰ-vis Saudi Arabia, and countering the Iranian threat.
(URL: http://www.meforum.org/2902/muslim-inferiority-complex-kills-christians)
Republished with Permission of the Middle East Forum
Reprinted from the Middle East Forum News
mefnews@meforum.org (MEF NEWS)
May 14, 2011
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