[And Egypt is supposed to be a "moderate" Muslim country?!]
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"No compulsion in religion" doesn't mean you can leave Islam...
Al Arabiya (Saudi TV Channel) and Al Ahram (Egyptian government daily
newspaper); translated by Ibn Misr and edited by J. Campbel
CAIRO, Egypt: An Egyptian administrative court rejected today the case
of an ex-Muslim converted to Christianity that requested to change his
name and his religion from Muslim to Christian on his national identity
card.
The verdict of the Egyptian court: A Muslim is not allowed to change
his religion
In explaining their verdict, the judges declared that they were guided
by the heavenly court better wisdom, to respect the order in which the
three religions were revealed, Judaism, Christianity and then Islam as
the final religion. They interpreted this as heavenıs verdict, to allow
the Jew and the Christian to convert to the (better and final) religion
of Islam but not the other way around.
The Judges went on and issued a very explicit warning, to Mohamed
Hegazy, his wife and their lawyer, that going against the tide would
provoke civil unrest and exacerbate emotions in the Egyptian society.
[A coded veiled threat to Hegazy, his wife and Christians in general].
The panel of judges went on to explain that, ³Freedom of religion
doesnıt mean getting in and out of Islam to another religion, but only
means that each person is free to practice his own religious rites, and
not playing games with Islam or contradicting the Shaıria law.
For Westerners to realize the im****tance of changing the religion and
the Muslim name in the national ID card, which may seem to many a non
issue according to western standards-
1- If you get caught going to a church while your religion on your id
is Muslim that could get you arrested, questioned and tortured. Many
ex-Muslims didnıt come out alive from the hands of the security
apparatus. The latest victim was a 27 years old woman, Mrs. Sherreen,
mother of 2 children from Alexandria , Egypt. She died at the police
station on January 3, 2008 after five hours of torture for refusing to
renounce her Christian faith and come back to Islam. As you read this,
hundreds of ex-Muslims are in jails.
2- If your Christian religion is not specified on your ID, your
children are automatically registered as Muslim in their birth
certificate and they should follow mandatory Islamic ³religion²
indoctrination cl***** at school.
3- Egyptian law forbids a Muslim to marry in a Church.
4- An ex-Muslim convert to Christianity that still has Muslim as a
religion on his id can still marry a Christian girl in a civil
marriage, but they would be faced with the children assigned to Islam
and required to go through mandatory Islamic education. Technically it
is allowed since by (Islamic segregationist) laws a Muslim man can
marry a Christian or a Jewish girl (Muslims like to boast about this as
proof of Islamıs tolerance towards Jews and Christians). But a
converted ex-Muslim woman cannot marry a Christian man as long as her
religion is not changed on her id card. There are thousands of cases
like that. Their only option is to leave the country to have a normal
life.
5- To apply for any job, even as a street sweeper or a shoe ****ne
position you have to state your religion on the job application. For a
Muslim convert to Christianity to write down that heıs a Muslim just to
match whatıs on his id is equivalent to denying his faith. And if he
tells the truth, he would be a target to the thugs looking to offer a
sacrifice to their blood thirsty Allah.
Some may ask ³whatıs the im****tance of changing a name?²
Muslims and Christians are recognized by their name. So for someone to
have Christian as a religion on his id with a Muslim name, that would
expose him right away as an apostate and make him again a target to be
killed by any one of Allahıs thugs.
Where an ex-Muslim succeed in changing his id from Muslim to Christian,
whether legally or most of the time illegally through bribing civil
servants and other means short of legally, either way, the convert has
to leave his or her job and move to a different city where no one knows
him so he can go to church, practice his faith and get a job without
risking being recognized or arrested.
In the case of a Muslim couple with kids, and only one of the parents
converts to Christianity, by law they should divorce and the one that
stayed Muslim would take, custody of kids (who are forced to stay
Muslim) and house. If itıs a Christian couple and one of the parents
converts to Islam, then the kids become automatically Muslims. This is
called in the Egyptian law, ³The kids follow the parent with the
better, or superior religion.²
Any Convert to Christianity has to go through all this upheaval,
assuming heıs not killed first by Allahıs thugs or tortured and killed
like an animal by the Wahabi infiltrated security apparatus.
According to the Shaıria law, anyone can kill an apostate with no
indemnity. What most Westerners ignore is that no Islamic court would
condemn a Muslim to death for killing a kaffer (Christian, Jew, Hindu,
Buddhist, or any non Muslim), since theyıre already considered ³the
worst of creatures ³ according to Koran 98:6. In other words, theyıre
not human beings equal to Muslims and their lives are not worth as
much.
Mohamed Hegazyıs father, Abdu Hegazy, issued a statement to Al Arabiya
channel stating ³When Iıll meet my son, I will discuss with him the
reasons and cir***stances that forcedı him to leave Islam, and will
offer him the op****tunity to come back to Islam, but in case he
refuses, I will kill him immediately.² He added ³I will not back up
from shedding his blood in broad daylight. I will be proud for killing
him. I will only forgive him if he comes back to his religion, admits
his wrong doing, and exposes the people that forced him to convert to
Christianity.² [This is another usual coded veiled threat to Christians
in Egypt, by insinuating they are the ones that ³force² Muslims to
convert.]
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