The Coalition for the Support of New Muslims is a newly-emerging entity that cannot be ignored in Egypt. Formed after the January 25 revolution, it comprises names of several clerics like Shaykh Hāfiz Salāmah, salafī preacher ‘Abd al-Muni’m al-Shahāt and Khālid Harbī, the director of the web site Islamic Observatory of Resistance to Christianization.
Although care provided for the new Muslims should include all recent converts, the coalition, at least on its Facebook page, immensely focuses on women who switched from Christianity to Islam.
It has named six women it says detained inside Egyptian monasteries, most notably Wafā’ Constantine and Kāmīliyā Shihātah, and only one man.
The coalition general coordinator and media spokesman, Husām Abū al-Bukhārī, says it is Christians who make a fuss about new female converts to Islam. “It is a matter of honor for them, apparently.”
The coalition spends on Christians who converted to Islam, helping them obtaining new official documents in al-Azhar, finding them new homes and getting them jobs. “We’ve helped 30-40 new converts from Christianity to Islam since the January 25 revolution has erupted,” said Bukhārī.
