Islamists
Torch, Destroy and Vandalize over 70 Christian Churches and
Institutions
"For
weeks, everyone could see these attacks coming, with Muslim Brotherhood members
accusing Coptic Christians of a role in Mohammad Morsy's ouster, but the
authorities did little or nothing to prevent them," Joe Stork, acting Middle
East director at Human Rights Watch, remarked back in August after Islamists
wrecked havoc on their Christian countrypeople.
The
year 2013 means something noteworthy to every Egyptian. The military overthrew
the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohammed Morsi in
June, but Christians will mark this year much more grimly. They will count the
number of churches attacked (79 in August alone), a drive-by shooting at
a Copt wedding in Cairo in October that killed four, and a several-month-long Islamist seize of Dalga, where the Christians that did not
flee the takeover, found themselves essentially under house arrest and according
to some reports, forced to pay a jizya or overseer tax to the Islamist
government.
Ten
percent of Egypt's population who been part of the country for hundreds of years
despite years of persecution, the Christian community is resilient and yet
rightfully concerned about where they will fit in in a post-Mubarak state. Continue
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