Soldier Beaten to Death for His Christian Faith in Egypt

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The world, sick with Jew-hatred, continues its morbid obsession with the tiny Jewish state, the only country in the region with religious freedom, while ignoring the creed apartheid, gender apartheid, antisemitism, honor violence and killing under Islamic law in Muslim countries.

Islamophobia is the mantra of the poisoned elite. Have you ever heard the word Christianophobia? Hinduphobia, et al?

Soldier in Egypt Beaten to Death for His Christian Faith, Relatives Say

By Our Egypt Correspondent, Morning Star News, July 27, 2017:

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Three officers attacked new arrival after learning of his faith, they say.
 The body of Joseph Reda Helmy. (Screenshot)CAIRO, July 27, 2017– Egyptian military officers beat a new soldier to death on July 19 upon learning that he was a Christian, relatives said.

Joseph Reda Helmy of Kafr Darwish village, Beni Suef Governorate, had just completed training at Mobarak military training center and was transferred to Al-Salaam special forces police unit, where three officers killed him, relatives told Middle Eastern media. The Egyptian army told relatives Helmy died of an epileptic seizure.

His father, Reda Helmy, told Al Karma TV by phone that his large, strong son had arrived at the camp at 2 p.m. and was dead by 8 p.m. In the same program, the deceased’s cousin, Youssef Zarif, said he received a message at 2 a.m. on July 20 from the Ministry of Interior to come and retrieve Helmy’s body.

When Zarif arrived, he asked to meet an officer and was initially rebuffed. Eventually he met with an officer who told him that Helmy had died of an epileptic seizure. Zarif refused to believe the army explanation, saying Helmy was a healthy, quiet person loved by all in his village of Christians and Muslims. The heavily Muslim country has population that is about 10 percent Christian.

He told Al Karma that the extensive bruising he found on the body did not look like those of an epileptic episode. He said Helmy had bruises on his head, shoulders, neck, back and genitalia, with the worst injuries occurring on his back.

The doctor who examined the body refused to bow to pressure from those who brought it and reported that the cause of death was not natural, Zarif said. A prosecutor accompanying the family firmly concurred and demanded an investigation, he said.

Zarif said he thanked the doctor and prosecutor for not trying to cover up the truth.

The three officers who attacked his cousin are in custody and under investigation, he said.

Zarif said he learned from police and other soldiers authorities that the three officers began to harass Helmy because of his Christian faith, and that the marks on his body indicate they kicked him with their boots and hit him with heavy instruments.

Another cousin, Malak Youakim, confirmed the killing to Alhorreya.TV. Youakim also said Helmy was attacked for his Christian faith.

A Christian leader in Helmy’s home village said many there are in mourning.

“Many women are wearing black, a sign of mourning for the death of one of their Coptic youth,” he told Morning Star News. “Many are sharing the graphic pictures of the bruised body of Joseph Reda Helmy, a new draftee doing his military service.”

He said Helmy had been in the army for only month when he died on July 19.

Several other Coptic Christians have died for their faith while serving in the Egyptian military. On Feb. 17, 2016, the Egyptian military informed the family of Michael Gamel Mansour that the 22-year-old conscript from Assuit had committed suicide. Authorities claimed Mansour, who was assigned to a unit that guards El Gomhoreya Stadium in Cairo, shot himself with a rifle. They asserted that moments before his suicide, Mansour became despondent after a telephone conversation with members of his family.

Sources said they do not believe that Mansour killed himself. Family members have said the phone conversation the military cited was about innocuous issues. Mansour was not dealing with any major problems and gave no signs that he was having any sort of psychological episode, they said, and no suicide letter has been found.

Mansour had been scheduled to be discharged from army service on July 1, 2016, according to family members. His case marked the third time in nine months that the government reported a Coptic Christian soldier committing suicide. A fourth Christian was killed in August 2016, according to the government, in a shooting incident in which no one has been criminally charged.

On Nov. 20, 2015, the military informed Nataay Boushra that his son, Private First Class Bishoy Nataay Boushra, a second-year conscript soldier in the Egyptian army, was dead, also a victim of suicide. Boushra, 21, served in the Central Security Forces (CSF), a ubiquitous, 450,000-man unit under the command of the Ministry of Interior used to augment the Egyptian National Police. Boushra was posted to the outskirts of Cairo, guarding the CSF barracks used by his duty section.

According to the military, Boushra was found dead the morning of Nov. 20, 2015 in the bathroom of a military jail cell with a sheet wrapped around his neck. Officials told Nataay Boushra that his son hung himself from a windowsill.

Nataay Boushra rejects the government’s claim of suicide. His son was deeply spiritual and considered suicide to be a grave sin. During his army service, he was in regular contact with his family and gave no indication of any depression before his death. He was just three months away from being discharged from the army and pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a monk.

As with the case of Mansour, the military made its ruling that the cause of Boushra’s death was a suicide before an autopsy was performed. At the morgue, the family refused to take the remains until officials conducted an autopsy, but while waiting, Nataay Boushra and his brother were able to examine the body. In addition to the ligature marks expected from a hanging or strangling death, Boushra’s torso was covered with bruises and huge welts from what appeared to be sustained, brutal beatings.

For months before his death, according to his father, Boushra endured threats, violence, intense verbal abuse and public humiliation from a fellow draftee, a Muslim known to the public only as “Mustafa.” Boushra took the abuse in stride until Nov. 4, when the Muslim soldier launched into yet another tirade against Christianity. Boushra picked up a stick the size of an ax handle and hit the other soldier in the head, knocking him to the ground, according to military court testimony.

The soldier was taken to a hospital for examination and then released. Both men were arrested and placed together in a jail cell awaiting a hearing in a military court.

For reasons still unknown, another soldier who was a friend of Mustafa was later locked in the military prison cell with Boushra and Mustafa, the same cell in which he was later found dead, according to the military.

Egypt is ranked 21st on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2017 World Watch List of the countries where is it is most difficult to be a Christian.

 

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Michael Buley
Michael Buley
6 years ago

sounds like a promotion for those three who killed him. seriously. they kill Jews, Christians, infidels. This is the command of the Koran. Are they to be punished for killing a Christian? they will be lauded, rewarded — perhaps ‘punished’ for the Western satisfaction that criminals do pay. but these soldiers are good Muslims, following the Koran.

Pray for the abandoned Christians there. They are headed toward death and extinction. We face the same threat all over the civilized world, wherever Muslims are, or go.

Craig
Craig
6 years ago
Reply to  Michael Buley

Remember, the muslim, rat obama, did not let middle east Christians come to America as refugees, but he sure rammed every unvetted POS muslim savage he could find into the country.
Buy a gun. learn how to use it and carry it always.

Michael Buley
Michael Buley
6 years ago
Reply to  Craig

agreed. get a gun if you don’t have one. keep it loaded and ready. and carry. i would not live in a state or city where i could not carry. our lives, and the lives of the ones we love, depend on us.

Obama did indeed abandon Christians. Deliberately and specifically. I’m still waiting for Christians, the truly persecuted, the true refugees, to come to the top of the list. Muslims are pure and simple an invasion force, and all world leaders know that.

phranthie
phranthie
6 years ago
Reply to  Michael Buley

You can get up to 10 years imprisonment in Britain for possession of one — that’s how vulnerable they are! An armed population is the best assurance against servitude, and that’s why Obama & Co were opposed to this. It might also help the situation in Afghanistan if the population were armed, but that’s another matter.

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Almacmccullough
6 years ago

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AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Egypt used to be majority Christian, I believe.

Covadonga
Covadonga
6 years ago

The Patriarch of Alexandria was one of the 5 Patriarchs who ran the Orthodox Church. It was the 2nd major city in the world to be majority Christian, after Antioch, Syria.

The doctrine of the Holy Spirit was developed by a non-orthodox Jewish thinker in Alexandria, then later incorporated into Christianity by Christians in Alexandria, in order to get that guy’s followers to join up.

A group of 70 rabbis on the island of Pharos, (site of Alexandria’s famous lighthouse, one of the 7 wonders of the world,) translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek. This was the very first translation of the Bible into a European language. Their version, called the Septuagint, from the Greek word for 70, is still used today as the official Old Testament of the Greek Orthodox Church.

In the time of Richard Coeur de Lion (King Richard I of England, end of 12th century, Third Crusade) Egypt was still majority Christian, though it had been under hostile rule continuously since the Saracenic wars, if not since the Last Great War of Antiquity. (Early 7th century, though some maverick thinkers have collected substantial evidence that our Anno Domini timescale got intentionally screwed up and padded out with fake years when it was adopted in 1000 AD. If they are correct, the amount of time between the Saracenic Wars and the Third Crusade may have been closer to 250 or 300 years, rather than the 550 or so you get from the conventional histories.)

Anyway, before veering off towards Jerusalem on his initially successful campaign against Salah-ud-Din, Coeur de Lion realized that the Christians would never be able to hold it after he left, given the 600 pound gorilla of Muhamedan-ruled Egypt in Salah-ud-Din’s hands next door.

So he had a Plan A that would have worked, to kick the muzz out of Egypt and make it a Christian country again, thus splitting the Dar al-Islam in two. Then he could come back to Jerusalem and take it, and with help from Egypt in Crusader hands next door, Christians could have held Jerusalem continuously to the present day.

If his plan had been followed, later Crusaders could have rolled up North Africa slice by slice, taking the pressure off Spain, paving the way for Africa to be almost 100% Christian today, and leaving Islam as a force only in the Turkish lands, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, and maybe northern India.

In fact, the Mongols crushed the muzz in most of those places in the 13th century. The only reason Islam even survived as a system is that some Italian merchants in Constantinople put profit over principles and accepted gold to ferry Turks from Asia Minor to Balkan Europe until the worst of the Mongol wave had passed, and the Mamelukes in Egypt were able to summon enough military force to hold the Sinai, denying the entire continent of Africa to the Mongols.

If Coeur de Lion could have convinced his warriors to let him stick with Plan A, it might have been a very different world today.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Covadonga

JP fought off the Mongols as well. I never realized the Mongol hordes got all the way to the Mid-East though.

Covadonga
Covadonga
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

The Mongols sacked Baghdad, and killed the population there. Babylon was totally destroyed, and never rebuilt. Iraq today still has not recovered to the population level it used to have in the 12th century.

That would have happened in Egypt, too, if the Mamelukes had not beaten the Mongols.

Hulagu Khan also ordered the assault on the Mountain in northern Syria where the Assassins had their headquarters. He wiped out that entire sect, who had been de facto allies of the Crusader kingdoms. Moslem rulers had tried for generations to attack this maverick Shia sect, with zero success.

For Arab demographics, worldwide, the Tigris-Euphrates valley in Iraq and the Nile valley are the big kahunas. Imagine how many more Muzz there would be in the world today if the Mongols had not genocided the ones in the Tigris-Euphrates in the 13th century.

Crusades were a sideshow, compared to Jenghis Khan and especially to his grandson, Hulagu Khan. Remember that the next time you hear some Imam or Muzz media personality mouth off about “Crusader this, Crusader that”.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Covadonga

The Mongols tried to invade Japan. The few that made it to the beaches were slaughtered.

Covadonga
Covadonga
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Oh, I gotcha now. Of course.

Robert Swift
Robert Swift
6 years ago
Reply to  Covadonga

Love history, thanks for the lesson! (Not being sarcastic either!)

Covadonga
Covadonga
6 years ago
Reply to  Robert Swift

Thank you.

I put a little more in a reply to IzlamIsTyranny in this thread.

Kristi17
Kristi17
6 years ago

Egypt used too be Christian and Jewish FAITH, they have All Turned there backs on our ONE TRUE GOD the FATHER and HIS SON Jesus-Yeshua Christ!!

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Craig
Craig
6 years ago

Egypt, where rat obama and the baby-eating hillary assisted the phony “Egyptian Spring”. The two douche nozzles assisted the terrorist “Muslim Brotherhood” take control of Eqypt and they aided them.
Does anyone remember Lara Logan when she was gang raped and sodomized by untold number of Egyptian men?
Guess..JUST GUESS, whom she blames…yes, the United States. Liberals are insane and are truly the enemies of freedom. Liberals will never understand the muslim ideology and when some muslim is cutting their throat, the liberal will be thinking “don’t they know I am their friend?”

Michael Buley
Michael Buley
6 years ago
Reply to  Craig

I have thought for awhile that when they are having their heads cut off, they will apologize to the Muslims killing them — and, yes, blame America and freedom and all that is good.

joe1429
joe1429
6 years ago
Reply to  Craig

Cant believe logan is blaming US, when she was the moron who was in the middle of thousands of moslem men, in egypt

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago

Who cares, the Egyptian Christians are more antisemetic than the muslims, lying with murderous dogs will get you killed.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

Such a facile superficial comment: the Copts have survived for near 1400 years since the invasion as 10-20% of the Egyptian population and still stick to their religion under conditions that would have you bowing to mecca. they are the ONLY large group to withstand the 2nd class treatment by muslims and to still hang on. They deserve only praise and just tell me how you would cope as a 2nd class citizen in a Muslim state. I would bring them into my country overnight instead of ONE muslim.

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

The Copts support the destruction of Israel and consider Jew killers martyrs, they support an imaginary Palestinian people created in the 60s, over Jews with a history dating back over 2,500 years in the region, 900 years longer than the Copts.

1PierreMontagne1D
1PierreMontagne1
6 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

Really? Then why don’t the Muslims take in the Copts as their allies???

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago

Just last year the Coptic pope visited Jerusalem in support of Palestine. Muslims have no allies, as the muzzrats like to say remember khaybar.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

The Christians of the Mid-East (the fewer and fewer of them left) have been suffering Stockholm syndrome for a thousand years.
Expatriate Coptic Christians offered to buy dinner for my entire ACT for America chapter.

Kalambong Kalambong
Kalambong Kalambong
6 years ago

NEVER TRUST MOSLEMS !!

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

Thank G-d Egyptistan’s Jews left this islamic pig’s anus state.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

RIP Mr. Mansour, my condolences to his family. Too bad they’ll never see any justice for their son’s murder.

conan_drum
conan_drum
6 years ago

If that is how the officers behave there is little hope for the army

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago

The world is experiencing a genocide of Christians. Many countries have acknowledged it. America, and other western countries, are not only ignoring it, the leaders are filling their own neighborhoods with the killers of Christians. Assassins who follow a book called the Quran, that orders them to kill these ‘people of the book'(the bible). No country on earth is fighting to save the Christians. Not one. God will surely bring judgement on the world.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago
Reply to  iprazhm

If this was really! going on I M sure the pope wud speak out..

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago
Reply to  garry pollack

Will the Obama Administration Recognize the Legal Evidence of Genocide? Image from the cover of Genocide against Christians in the Mideast
by National Review INTERVIEW March 12, 2016
“…This ongoing genocide has been recognized by 28 European countries, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Iraqi and Kurdish governments, major world leaders (including Chancellor Angela Merkel and Pope Francis), and U.S. presidential candidates of both parties. The United States government stands virtually alone in refusing to acknowledge the genocide…”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432706/christian-genocide-isis-obama-administration-should-recognize-it

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago
Reply to  garry pollack

Genocide Against Christians in the Middle East Report
2016 THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
http://stopthechristiangenocide.org/scg/en/resources/Genocide-report.pdf

Badger
Badger
6 years ago

This is really weird.

The only people condemning the religious genocide of Christians seem to be Jews.

Which is astonishing when you consider the way Christians have persecuted Jews for the last 2,000 years.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago
Reply to  Badger

We don’t like to see anyone who is without blame persecuted!

jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago

we need to boycott Egypt no tourism and to hell with these hate mongering evil bastards!

jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago

god bless Joseph! he is in Jesus arms now, and Allah AKA Satan awaits his inheritance those 3 men who murdered him!!!

Robert Swift
Robert Swift
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmimac

No offense, but God is capitalized.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago
Reply to  Robert Swift

That’s not on the list of 613 aveirahs & mitzvahs!

joe1429
joe1429
6 years ago

The coptics have not been protected for some time in egypt

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