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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Following the Pact of Umar in Egypt

As I have written here about the Pact of Umar and the creation of the dhimmi, the Christians in Egypt are suffering under, among other restrictive codes, a 1,400 year old ruling that prohibits the building or repairing of churches in Islamic lands.  They and other human rights groups, are demanding the government repeal this unjust law and give Christians the same rights as Islam.

Good luck with that.


From AINA Jan 22

Collapsing Churches Prompt Protests in Egypt For New Law on Church Construction

Unusually bad winter weather in Upper Egypt all last week focused attention once again on the controversial restrictions on church building. The rainy weather caused roofs of dilapidated churches -- which have been waiting for years to receive construction permits -- to collapse.

Much of the on-going sectarian strife in Egypt is related to the ability of Christians to build churches. Most human rights organizations in Egypt have called on the Egyptian government for the last 15 years to promptly adopt "a unified law governing construction of the houses of worship." believing that this law would eliminate more than 90% of the sectarian tension.

Presently church building in Egypt is still partly governed by the Hamayouni Decree of 1856, and the 1934 el-EzabI Decree that stipulated 10 conditions that must be met prior to issuance of a presidential decree permitting the construction of a church. The conditions include the requirement that the distance between a church and a mosque be not less than 100 meters, the approval of the neighboring Muslim community, the number of Christians in the area and whether or not the proposed church is near the Nile, public utilities or railways. Copts view these regulations as confirmation of their Dhimmi or second-class citizenship status.

Exactly right. 

Read it all
 

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