The Muslim Brotherhood’s jihad in Egypt, especially on Coptic Christians, rages on with no end in sight. Moreover, as Muslim Brotherhood supporters continue attacking and burning Egypt’s Christian churches—several dozens have been assaulted since the Brotherhood camps were dissolved less than two days ago—it’s important to remember that their hostility is not simply directed to churches, but any and every expression of Christianity, including crosses, Bible stores, etc.
Functioning as places where Christian men and women go to in order to leave the world and its cares, even monasteries are currently under attack. One of the most significant examples, for instance, occurred Thursday morning (Egyptian time): hundreds of pro-Morsi rioters set fire to the Virgin Mary Monastery, also known as Muharraq Monastery, in Quwsaya, Asyut—one of the oldest monasteries in the world, which held many ancient Coptic manuscripts, likely now all turned to ash. Its flames reached surrounding Coptic Christian homes, causing approximately 15 to catch fire.
The fact is, Islamic attacks on Coptic monasteries are as old as Islam’s invasion into Egypt itself, that is, nearly 1400 years. Thus the persecution of Egypt’s indigenous, most original, inhabitants, the Christian Copts, continues unabated, in the same patterns, and in the name of Islam — that is, in the name of the Muslim Brotherhood, which, to its automaton-like devotees, is synonymous with Islam itself.