Why Are Egyptian Christians Being Persecuted | Raymond Stock
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 2014-02-26

Lecture Title - The Muslim Brotherhood's Jihad Against the Coptic Church

Our political emissaries and Western media generally have presented the recent unrest in Egypt as a military coup that threatens to undo democracy. This narrative, however, stands on a false presentation of the Muslim Brotherhood. In this lecture, foreign policy expert and long-time Egyptian resident Raymond Stock will offer the untold story: The Muslim Brotherhood is a fanatical group born in Egypt in 1928, which is dedicated to subjugating all Christians, killing all Jews and conquering the earth for Islam. Radical Islamists have been "cleansing" Christians from most of the Middle East for the past decade, and this has intensified, in scale and force, in Egypt since the July removal of President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader. The group and its Salafi allies are waging jihad against the Copts, the world's oldest Christian community. Learn more about how this has happened and how Christians can respond.

Raymond Stock (PhD University of Pennsylvania) is Senior Instructor of Arabic at Louisiana State University. During his doctoral studies, Stock studied abroad on Fullbright Fellowship (1993-1994) for field research on a biography of Egyptian Nobel Laureate in Literature, Naguib Mahfouz. He has published many articles, offering analysis of Middle East Politics and Media.

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