Tag: egypt
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Coptic march Melbourne – What you didn’t see
H/T Free Copts Gates of Vienna also asks “Where is Freedom of Religion?”
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Report: Egyptian State Security Accused of Cover-up in Muslim Riots
From the Assyrian International News Agency. (HT: The Volokh Conspiracy): Cairo (AINA) — In an effort to cover up the Muslim mob violence against the Copts which broke out last week in the town of Farshoot and neighboring villages (AINA 11-22-2009, 11-23-2009), and in view of the complete news blackout imposed by the Egyptian government,…
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A ‘somber’ time for Egypt’s Copts
From the Times (UK): The first two months of the Coptic new year have been a somber time for Egypt’s ancient Christian community. The new year fell on the inauspicious date of September 11. And a spate of attacks on this large and downtrodden community by Islamist extremists or villagers giving a religious pretext to…
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Egypt’s Copts the ‘New Martyrs’?
Perilous times for Egypt’s Christian community. In “Egypt’s Coptic Christians Are Choosing Isolation,” the Washington Post reports that “the most populous Christian community in the Middle East is seeking safety by turning inward, cutting day-to-day social ties that have bound Muslim to Christian in Egypt for centuries.” The story notes a dramatic decline in of…