The Virgin Mary Coptic Church in Zamalek, also called theMara’ashly Church. (Photo From Tour Egypt)
The MidEast News Source:
Several people were wounded in renewed clashes between Muslims and Christians in Egypt over the past week.
Christians, also known as Copts, were on their way to a monastery to pray when children hurled stones at them, according to a report in the London-based A-Sharq Al-Awsat.
Stones were also hurled at Christians in a separate incident in the north east of the country, in Minya Al-Qamh, as Christian worshipers made their way to a building set to be transformed into a church.
Coptic sources said thousands of Muslims surrounded the building in Kafr Farag Girgis to stop the Christian gathering.
Security forces were summoned to the area to ease tension between the parties.
In Luxor, several buses carrying Christians were attacked with stones, lightly wounding the travelers.
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My Comment: The ugly specter of Islamic extremism and intolerance is showing its head again. Religious riots and a Christian pogrom has always been the objective of the most radical of the Muslim leadership in Egypt. Failure to rein in these monsters in will only inflame the situation worse, and produce a catastrophe that will shake Egypt and the entire Arab world.