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Muslim 'Inferiority Complex' Kills Christians

by Raymond IbrahimFrontPageMagazine.com May 14, 2011

Days ago in Egypt, throngs of Muslims (henceforth, "Islamists"), estimated at 3,000,

fired guns and rifles and hurled Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, homes, and

businesses in the Imbaba region near Cairo: twelve Christians were killed²some shot bysnipers atop rooftops²232 injured; three churches were set aflame to cries of "Allahu

Akbar," while Coptic homes were looted and torched.

Imbaba church burns

As usual, Egyptian leadership did little to stop this latest rampage. According to

eyewitnesses, though the mob opened fire around 5:30 p.m., the military did not arrivetill 10 p.m., providing ample time to terrorize the Copts. One priest said "I called

everyone, but no one bothered to come. I mourn all those young people who died,"

naively adding "We now must ask for international protection." Noting that this attack isunprecedented in scope, Muslim liberal writer Nabil Sharaf el Din said "The army is either

incapable [of stopping anti -Christian violence] or is an accomplice to the Salafis

[Islamists]."

So what triggered this latest bit of Salafi savagery²or, as the MSM calls it, "sectarianstrife"? Islamists claim that a Christian girl converted to Islam and the Coptic Church

responded by abducting her and torturing her into renouncing Islam. Hence, the wildrampage was part of a "rescue" effort.

This issue of Christian women supposedly converting to Islam only to be kidnapped by

the Coptic Church is the Islamists' latest excuse to make Coptic life a living hell

(especially ironic since the well-documented reality in Egypt is the opposite: Islamistsregularly kidnap and force Christian women to convert to Islam). Indeed, days before

this rampage, thousands of Islamists marched in front of St. Mark Cathedral, Coptic

Pope Shenouda's residence, demanding the "release" of other Christian women²twowives of clergy, whom Muslims insist also converted to Islam only to be abducted and

tormented by the Coptic Church to return to Christianity.

(The notion of torturing people into returning to their original religion obviously comportswell with Muslim logic: aside from the other Sharia schools which recommend outright

execution of apostates, the "liberal" Hanafi school, which is dominant in Egypt, maintains



that apostate women should merely be imprisoned and beaten till they come to theirsenses and return to Islam.)

That these Coptic women have publicly insisted that they never converted to Islam doesnot seem to matter much; one of them, Camelia Shehata appeared on video months ago

proclaiming that she will "live and die as a Christian"; she appeared again last week with

her priest husband and young child, emphatically denying that she ever converted to

Islam, imploring Muslims to leave them in peace.

Undeterred, Copts congregate the next day in burned Imbaba

church for Sunday mass

This supposedly "chivalrous" behavior²"rescuing" damsel converts to Islam even when

they insist on never converting²highlights the Islamic world's obsession with the issue

of conversion: while it is known that those who convert out, the apostates, should be putto death, few people are aware that those who convert in²against their will or not,

based on false rumors or not²are a great source of validation for Islam, and thus mustbe secured.

Even the West has been dragged into this obsession²such as the persistent rumor that

the late Jacque Cousteau embraced Islam, prompting the Cousteau foundation to issue a

letter verifying its founder never converted, and lived and died as a Catholic Christian.

Indeed, a new Arabic book, Al-Quran Yaqum Wahdu²which consists of 33 anecdotes of

Western intellectuals converting to Islam after supposedly being bowled over by the

truths of the Koran²lists Cousteau and Islam critic Henryk Broder as its very first twoexamples, despite the fact that, back in the real world, everyone knows they never

converted. One is left wondering how many, if any, of the other 31 anecdotes are true.

In an insightful Arabic op-ed²see my complete translation here²Muslim intellectual

Khaled Montaser elaborates on why Muslims are obsessed with converts:

We Muslims have an inferiority complex«feeling that our Islamic religion needs constant,practically daily, confirmation by way of Europeans and Americans converting to Islam.

What rapturous joy takes us when a European or American announces their [conversion

to] Islam²proof that we are in a constant state of fear, alarm, and chronic anticipationfor Western validation or American confirmation that our religion is "okay."



Discussing how the Arab world exulted when it erroneously thought that the Germanwriter Henryk Broder had accepted Islam²based on sarcastic remarks he had made²Montaser wrote "but we are a people incapable of comprehending sarcasm, since itrequires a bit of thinking and intellectualizing. And we read with great speed and a

hopeful eye, not an eye for truth or reality. Some of us are struck with blindness whenwe read things that go against our hopes."

And there it is: just as Islamists refuse to face reality concerning so-called Westernconverts, so do they refuse to face reality concerning so-called Coptic converts to Islam.The only difference, of course, is that Copts live under Islamic authority²hence, all the

death and destruction visited upon Egypt's indigenous Christians whenever Islam's

inferiority complex flares up.

Raymond Ibrahim is associate director of the Middle East Forum

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