Christians are Fleeing Egypt (1999)Egypt
1999 (1950-1999)
Copts complain they must pay ''gezia,'' a kind of protection tax, which Islamists say is grounded in Koranic law. Copts who have resisted have been threatened with death. Some have been killed.
416 posted on
12/09/2004 9:46:40 PM PST by
miltonim
(Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
Christian Copts on Prejudice in Egypt & Saudi Arabia Egypt, Saudi Arabia
November 2002
The Sheikh reprimanded the viewer for having a Christian friend in the first place Muslims were not permitted to take Christian friends. He then went on to advise the viewer to keep the item in question for himself, since all possessions of kuffaar [non-believers] were the rightful property of Muslims.
417 posted on
12/09/2004 10:12:54 PM PST by
miltonim
(Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
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