Al-Azhar University in Cairo battles another food poisoning outbreak

For the second time in a month, Cairo-based al- Azhar University is dealing with a large food poisoning outbreak among students, according to a Xinhua report today. Al-Azhar Mosque and Al Azhar University, Cairo.Public domain photo/Tentoila via Wikimedia commons Ministry of Health spokesman, Yahia Moussa told Xinhua, ”So far, 161 students More...

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By Brandon Jones On Sunday, April 14th, 2013
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Shocking video leaks of Egyptian Muslims attacking, raping 2 Christian women, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’

Earlier this week a video began circulating on Arabic-language websites revealing a crowd of Muslims in Egypt attacking, assaulting and raping two Christian women on a crowded street,  in broad daylight. (A PORTION More...

By Brandon Jones On Thursday, April 4th, 2013
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Abdullah Badr, Egyptian Muslim scholar and professor, says Christians ‘gross me out,’ I feel disgusted’

Dr. Abdullah Badr, an Egyptian Muslim scholar and professor of Islamic exegesis, who spent ten years in prison under Mubarak, but, along with any number of Islamic terrorists and agitators, was released under Morsi, More...

By Robert Herriman On Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
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Locusts swarm Egypt: The eighth plague of Egypt not quite revisited

On the same weekend that the History Channel featured the first episode of the miniseries, “The Bible”, which did tell the story of the plagues of Egypt. Over the skies of Cairo millions of locusts swarmed, More...

By Laura Jones On Thursday, February 28th, 2013
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Christians in Libya, Egypt arrested and tortured, Sherif Ramses identified

Arrests continue of Christians accused of “proselytizing” in Libya, with a total of seven now known to be in custody including one reported to have been tortured, sources said. The Christian Post details More...

By Brandon Jones On Monday, February 11th, 2013
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Abu Islam, Egyptian cleric, justified raped and sexually harassing women in Cairo Tahrir square, ‘they want to be raped’

An Egyptian Salafi preacher said raping and sexually harassing women protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square is justified, calling them “crusaders” who “have no shame, no fear and not even feminism.” In an More...

By Brandon Jones On Sunday, February 10th, 2013
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Egypt court moves forward to prosecute two Coptic Christian boys, ages 9 and 10, for ‘insulting Quran’

An Egyptian court is forcing two Coptic Christian boys, ages 10 and 9, to stand trial for “insulting the Quran,” reports confirmed this week. Former Palestinian operative turned Islam analyst and peace activist More...

By Brandon Jones On Saturday, February 9th, 2013
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Egypt court rules to block YouTube over anti-Muslim film as ‘threat to social peace’

The Egypt court ruled this week that the authorities must take measures to block access to the YouTube site for a month, after a complaint by an Egyptian who accused YouTube of being a “threat to social peace” More...

By Brandon Jones On Friday, February 1st, 2013
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Rand Paul proposed bill to stop tanks, F-16 fighters from being sold to Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, fails in Congress

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul sought Thursday to block the transfer of F-16 fighter jets and Abrams tanks to Egypt. “I think it particularly unwise to send tanks and our most sophisticated fighter planes More...

By Brandon Jones On Saturday, January 12th, 2013
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Egyptian preacher Hesham el-Ashry announces on TV that woman cover-up unless ‘they want to get raped’

Egyptian preacher Hisham el-Ashry may have shocked viewers with his latest appearance on TV this week, saying that women must cover up for their own protection and advocated the introduction of religious police. “I More...