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Egypt's Ministry of Endowments just announced a new record: in the last six months, yet another 964 mosques were opened, costing Egypt more than 21 billion pounds since 2014.
Today there more than 150,000 mosques in Egypt. The total number of prayer halls is easily tenfold that number—meaning almost 1.5 million.
The total number of churches and monasteries for all Christian denominations in Egypt, including those “licensed” since the issuance of the 2016 Law for Building and Restoring Churches, is currently estimated to be about 5800.
There is one mosque or prayer hall for every 40 or so Muslims, but only one church or monastery for every 2,400 Christians.
That’s a 1:60 ratio of blatant discrimination.
Moreover, 22 billion Egyptian pounds are annually paid to Al Azhar, which has a parallel educational system, or madrasa, from KG to university, with over 2.8 million pupils and students.)
Conversely, not only does Egypt make it immensely hard for Christians to open or maintain churches, but the government does not contribute a single penny to their survival. Churches are even required to pay their utility bills, which no mosque in Egypt does, as the government happily picks up their bill.
- Raymond Ibrahim
The Muslims conquered the Iberian peninsula, but as they pushed forward into southern France, their advance was halted at Poitiers by Charles Martel in 745 A.D., thus keeping all of Western Europe except for that Iberian peninsula safe from Muslim conquest. This could, however, not prevent incessant Muslim attacks on coastal villages, especially along the coasts of Italy and France, though such attacks also reached as far as Ireland (the raid on the village of Baltimore in 1631, in which everyone was seized and taken back, as slaves, to Algiers) and, in one famous case, the Muslim corsairs reached as far as Iceland, resulting in the kidnapping and enslavement of the entire population of Grindavik in 1627 by Muslims from Algiers and Salé. The Muslims vandalized and destroyed the Christian villages, and seized their inhabitants, bringing them back to North African shores. The men were used as galley slaves, as laborers on construction sites, and as house slaves, while the women and girls ...
Yes, according to Constitutional scholar Robert Barnes, based on new polling data from his 1776 Law Center.
A week into "the war with no clear strategy or mission," there are still many hopeful, passionate champions of reform and Constitutionalism in the MAGA movement. Not long ago they represented over fifty percent of American voters. But today, the electoral power of the MAGA phenomenon has dropped to thirty percent, and is falling fast toward twenty percent.
Too many voters now feel betrayed by a president infected with hubris. They were led to believe it would be a weekend war. Then a week at most. Then two weeks. Then five weeks. Then the generals said, "At least until September."
What does this mean for the midterms? Mr. Trump has no good ratings, only massive disapproval. His party will lose dominion and influence in Congress. And then his impeachment is on the horizon. Possibly, also, some cabinet members.
Mathematical chances Democrats take the House? They stand today at 75%
The Senate? 85%
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