Crimes against Christians
Peter Day on the return of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the escalating Muslim violence against Christians:
The involvement by Egyptian Army units since the fall of Mubarak in violent anti-Coptic activities is one sign of Islamisation. At least one desert monastery has in recent weeks been assaulted by army tanks and armoured personnel carriers, bearing soldiers firing live ammunition. About a dozen demonstrators in a recent incident in Cairo were killed by unknown gunmen, and others wounded, while army units looked on. Most of those victims were Copts.
Read “Extremism in power” here…
Listen to Peter Day discussing the Islamic violence against the Copts in Egypt with Michael Duffy here…
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