Yet Another Christian Girl Kidnapped in Egypt

Some days, you just can't keep up. This is the first time I've reported a Christian girl being abducted in Egypt, but it's far from being the first that I've heard about.

Yet another Christian underage girl has been reported missing.

Nora Ayoub Sanad, aged 17, left home on Monday 17 September 2007 to escort her brother and two sisters to school as usual but she never returned. Her family waited till almost 2:00pm and then started calling her friends asking if they had seen her, but no-one knew anything about her whereabouts. Suspicions turned towards their neighbour, 23-year-old unemployed, Mohamed Ahmed Ali known as Mohamed Adidas, since he also mysteriously disappeared around the same time. The father, 50, a tyre repair man and mother, 38, a house wife, went to talk to the young man’s mother who denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of the daughter. When the father threatened to go to the State security, Mohamed’s sister intervened telling her mother to call the uncle telling him “to let them go and not to carry out their plan.”

On hearing this, Nora’s father went straight to Amriya police station where he reported the abduction of his daughter by Mohamed Adidas. Unfortunately the police officers on duty procrastinated endlessly and treated the father in a most humiliating way, making fun of him and insulting him and his daughter. On Wednesday evening, following endless trips between the State security office and the police station, the father, the mother of Mohamed Adidas and four policemen headed to the uncle’s house to find, not surprisingly, that the young people were not there. The father, reaching the end of his tether, said clearly that he officially accuses Mohamed Ahmed Ali of abducting and holding his under age daughter against her will and that Mohamed’s family know his whereabouts and are in contact with him. The mother said Nora had tried to call her twice, each time crying hysterically and saying that she wants to come home but “they will only let her go after ten days.” Now it is more than a month and Nora is still missing.

And it has come to the attention of Watani that five other underage girls disappeared, from different regions in Egypt, during the week before Eid al-Fitr—the Ramadan feast. Will the agony ever end?

Presumably, Nora Ayoub Sanad and the other girls who disappeared were Copts. This is one of the main ways the Copts are being oppressed by Muslim extremist in Egypt.