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Egyptian Court Sentences Christian Family to 15 Years for Converting from Islam
Fox News ^ | 1/16/13 | Benjamin Weinthal

Posted on 01/17/2013 6:42:41 AM PST by marshmallow

The 15-year prison sentence given to a woman and her seven children by an Egyptian court for converting to Christianity is a sign of things to come, according to alarmed human rights advocates who say the nation's Islamist government is bad news for Christians in the North African country.

A criminal court in the central Egyptian city of Beni Suef meted out the shocking sentence last week, according to the Arabic-language Egyptian paper Al-Masry Al-Youm. Nadia Mohamed Ali, who was raised a Christian, converted to Islam when she married Mohamed Abdel-Wahhab Mustafa, a Muslim, 23 years ago. He later died, and his widow planned to convert her family back to Christianity in order to obtain an inheritance from her family. She sought the help of others in the registration office to process new identity cards between 2004 and 2006. When the conversion came to light under the new regime, Nadia, her children and even the clerks who processed the identity cards were all sentenced to prison.

Samuel Tadros, a research fellow at Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, said conversions like Nadia's have been common in the past, but said Egypt's new Sharia-based constitution "is a real disaster in terms of religion freedom.”

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: ayers; christianpersecution; codepink; convertfromislam; dohrn; egyptmb; obamaspeople

1 posted on 01/17/2013 6:42:45 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

CNN’s “Arab Spring”.


2 posted on 01/17/2013 6:44:55 AM PST by skeeter
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To: marshmallow

Comming to a State Capitol near you....


3 posted on 01/17/2013 6:52:33 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: marshmallow
Outrage from The National Organization for Women
4 posted on 01/17/2013 6:55:49 AM PST by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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To: marshmallow

Coming soon to this land of ours..... Thanks to Dear Leader and his minions.


5 posted on 01/17/2013 7:01:17 AM PST by CORedneck
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To: marshmallow

‘There’s no harm in filling out a little paperwork about your gun...’ I’m sure they said the same about registering your religion as they do in many countries already. I especially find it shocking that any Jew in Germany would ever submit to such a requirement, but they do on their tax forms so that their temple can get paid money from the government.

Once again, I say it: The only reason to ever register anything with a government is to submit control over it to the government. From your birth to your death, you submit your control to the approval and whim of the government.

And now a woman and her minor children are in a prison cell, along with the clerks who processed her paperwork.


6 posted on 01/17/2013 7:07:45 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: marshmallow

Egypt. Isn’t that where 0bama’s buddy is president? Isn’t that the country that gets 82 billion of our painfully-earned dollars so that they can spread sharia?


7 posted on 01/17/2013 7:16:22 AM PST by I want the USA back
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9 posted on 01/17/2013 7:50:19 AM PST by onedoug
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She is lucky. They didn’t stone her to death.

This is Obama’s plan, why else would he have started this Muslim Spring crap?


10 posted on 01/17/2013 7:57:51 AM PST by Venturer
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To: onedoug

Too bad there isn’t a like button !


11 posted on 01/17/2013 8:02:35 AM PST by CORedneck
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Oooooooh...the arab-spring has apparently sprung. So multi-billions of American tax dollars go each year to support this kind of “civilized” behavior??? Maybe we should give them several of the most advanced fighter jets we possess...oh...we already have??? Great nobama/hitlery foreign policy.


12 posted on 01/17/2013 8:20:23 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: marshmallow

And Barry and is metrosexual cabal want to give these barbaric savages modern fighter jets and other advanced military hardware.

We still have 4 more years of this to endure.

At least.


13 posted on 01/17/2013 8:46:21 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: marshmallow; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; KC_Lion; Godzilla; Domestic Church; ...
Egyptian Court Sentences Christian Family to 15 Years for Converting from Islam

Nadia, who was raised a Christian, converted to Islam when she married a Muslim, 23 years ago. He later died, and his widow planned to convert her family back to Christianity in order to obtain an inheritance from her family.

She sought the help of others in the registration office to process new identity cards between 2004 and 2006. When the conversion came to light under the new regime, Nadia, her children - and even the clerks who processed the identity cards - were all sentenced to prison.

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14 posted on 01/17/2013 9:27:28 AM PST by LucyT (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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Surprisingly merciful. The usual penalty is death.


15 posted on 01/17/2013 10:11:06 AM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable Tyranny)
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To: LucyT

According to Sharia Law, you can convert to Islam, but it’s a one-way street. No going back. The usual penalty for converting FROM Islam is death.

That’s why I’ve often said that Barry is still a Muslim. He WAS a Muslim. And there’s no evidence that he was ever baptized. If he had converted back from Islam to Christianity, as he sometimes pretends, then Muslims all over the world would be screaming their heads off, and clerics would be issuing fatwas demanding his death, as they did for Salman Rushdi.

Ironically, Barry’s alma mater, Harvard Law School, has recently put up a placard praising the Koran for its supremely wonderful justice. It depends what you mean by “justice.”

Needless to say, Harvard gets a lot of money from Muzzie donors, and they are just returning the favor.


16 posted on 01/17/2013 7:26:12 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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