سهام محمد إبراهيم حسان الشرقاوى مسلمة أعتنقت المسيحية منذ عدة سنين وسنها 24
سنة أسمها الآن مارى أبراهيم تم القبض عليها بواسطة البوليس فى مصر فى يوم الإحتفال
بعيد زواجها الثالث من قبطى مسيحيى فى 22 /11/2007م
aturday, 01 December 2007
Arrest of Muslim Convert to Christianity Mary Ibrahim
Rasha Noor
Siham Ibrahim Muhammad Hassan al-SharqawiSiham Ibrahim Muhammad Hassan
al-Sharqawi (24), a Muslim convert known by the Christian name of Mary Nabil
Ibrahim, has been arrested on her third wedding anniversary (November 22) to a
Coptic man.
Although she had been arrested on the outskirts of Qena, located 300 miles south
of Cairo, with unclear reasoning behind her detainment by police officers, it is
a pondered wonder if this case falls into the repeated patterns of many other
cases made against the Christian community of Egypt including the Muslim
Background Believers.
Violently abused and treated as a prostitute, Sharqawi was taken to Qena's
security police headquarters where she was questioned until November 26 (a total
of 4 days) before being transferred to an unknown destination. Sharqawi's
husband and friends are unsure of her final destination although they fear she
will be released in the hands of her Muslim family as this has become a usual
custom seen through many other cases.
While staying in Qena's security police headquarters, it has been reported
through witnesses that she is undergoing extensive amount of verbal abuse (i.e.
name calling, and treating her as a prostitute) to the habitual physical abuse
and torture.
Sharqawi has accepted the Lord back in 2003, after a year of swaying towards
Christianity and married her husband on November 22, 2004. Upon the discovery of
her spending time with Christian friends, Sharqawi's family would routinely
abuse her from 2002 to 2003 by tying her to a chair and frequently beating her
and whipping her with the buckle end of a leather belt. This has lead Sharqawi
to flee her house in October 2003.
Detained, tortured and abruptly transferred from one location to another by
Egyptian police, Sharqawi's case is one of the many cases made against the MBBs
of Egypt, a community of Muslim background Christians who are not asking for
anything but their rights and acceptance from their community.
Rasha Noor
Translated by: Kresteen Safwat
Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 December 2007 )
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