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#Savage Egyptian Cleric Threatens Egypt's Copts with Genocide: "The day Egyptians…feel you are against them, you will be wiped off the face of the Earth" The above ad is part of our newly expanded anti-jihad campaign. The regime that Barack Obama is responsible for putting into power in Egypt is increasingly showing its true colors -- and the Coptic Christians are in serious jeopardy. Egyptian Cleric Threatens Egypt's Copts with Genocide Raymond Ibrahim Right Side News December 28 (thanks to Assad Elepty) "The day Egyptians…feel you are against them, you will be wiped off the face of the Earth." —...

A British think tank has released a lengthy report claiming that militant Islam is the greatest existential threat to Middle Eastern Christianity, bringing Christian communities in the region "close to extinction." The London-based Civitas, also known as the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, published the report in December. "Christianity is in serious danger of being wiped out in its biblical heartlands because of Islamic oppression," reads a statement from the group issued Sunday. "But Western politicians and media largely ignore the widespread persecution of Christians in the Middle East and the wider world because they are afraid they...

IF THE "Arab Spring" bathed the Middle East in some much-needed sunlight, there's at least one group that sees ominous clouds on the not-so-distant horizon. That would be the region's embattled and apprehensive Christians, who've lived a kind of double life for many decades. While nominally citizens of the countries they inhabit, most non-Muslims, the majority of whom are Christian, are treated as second-class members of society because so many governments in that part of the world adhere to sharia, and anyone familiar with the Islamic legal system knows that it codifies discrimination. For example, while Christians are free (and...