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Latest update: 23/02/2010
- Christians - Egypt - religion
Five Muslims given life sentences for murder of Coptic Christians
A Egyptian court in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor sentenced five men to life in prison for killing two Coptic Christians last April in a six-year-old family feud, a judicial source said.
By News Wires (text)
AFP - An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced five Muslims to life in prison for killing two Christian men in a family blood-feud in Upper Egypt, a judicial source said.
The court in the southern city of Luxor found the men guilty of shooting two Coptic Christians in the town of Higaza last April in a feud between their two families that goes back to 2004.
Tensions between Muslims and Christians in southern Egypt were heightened last month after a drive-by shooting in the town of Nagaa Hammadi in which six Coptic Christians and a Muslim policeman were killed.
A state security court has since put on trial three Muslim suspects in the killings.
Copts account for between six and 10 percent of Egypt's 80-million population. They complain of systematic discrimination and marginalisation.
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Comments (1)
Christians and Muslims
Muslim fanatics (actually they're not real Muslims at all but murderers who do not respect God's creation, but that's another story) are failing with terrorism in the West so they are turning on thousand-year-old Christian minorities in the Middle East and other Muslim majority countries. They have managed to expel all Jews and other religious minorities and now it's the turn of the Christians. So how to we react?
There are a number of ways:
(1) We can all become Muslims and then weed out the fanatics as the killers they really are (after all, real Islam isn't so ideologically distant from the other Abrahamic religions);
(2) We can have a news black out and remove the oxygen of publicity from these killers;
(3) We can ask all news organisations to refer to these killings as tribal or political or criminal rather than religious;
(4) We can follow in the Pope's footsteps and rally around talks between Christians, Jews and Muslims later in 2011, thus separating the true believers from the killers and satanic monsters;
(5) We can have a massive, Marshall-plan-like onslaught on ignorance and educate people to know the difference between the killers and criminals and the true believers;
(6) We can pray;
(7) We can set deadlines for internationally-acceptable solutions to conflicts such as Kashmir and Palestinian territories in order to reduce the propaganda tools of the fanatics and pledge real clout to negotiators in order to get things moving (why should the Israelis give ground if they have nothing to lose? why should the Palestinians, Jordanians and Syrians not drag their feet on historical compromises when they know they can continue dragging their feet and be seen as heroes in the Arab and Muslim world?)
(8) We can pray.
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