Egyptians Attack Christians

These attacks are not religiously instigated are they!  For if they are, the UN has international laws that would have been violated. 

Or was it simply a few disgruntled individuals who were upset and Islam played no role.  But if religion was not a factor, why attack Christian shops.  Why not simply attack SHOPS owned by anyone.





Egypt Muslims burn Christian shops: police


Nov 21, 2009
AFP


Hundreds of Muslim protesters on Saturday burnt Christian-owned shops in southern Egypt and attacked a police station where they believed a Christian accused of raping a Muslim girl was being held, a police official said.

Police repelled the demonstrators in the town of Farshut using tear gas and also arrested 60 people during the clashes in which seven Coptic Christian-owned shops were destroyed, the official said.

The protesters hurled stones at the police station after they heard that a Coptic Christian man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old Muslim was being held there, he said.

Roughly ten percent of Egypt's 80-million-strong population are Coptic Christians, who complain of discrimination and are sometimes the target of sectarian attacks.













 
 
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