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The Al Jazeera article below has more detail and recent developments in the incident, but neglects to note, as an Agence France-Presse story does, that the monks had a permit to build the wall. Still, residents insisted it was illegal (perhaps in the spirit of the Pact of Umar, permits notwithstanding), and violence ensued. "Egypt Copts protest against attacks," June 1:
Calm has returned to Deir Abu Fana, a village 210km south of Egypt's capital, Cairo, after the release of three monks abducted amid tensions between Muslims and Coptic Christians.
Violence erupted on Saturday when local Muslims claimed the expansion of a Coptic monastery was being carried out illegally on state property.
In Mallawi, a nearby town, on Sunday Coptic Christian protesters chanted: "With our blood and soul, we will defend the cross."
They appealed to Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, to intervene because "Coptic hearts are on fire".
Father Bulous, a priest at the Mallawi church who managed to visit the three freed monks in hospital on Sunday, said: "They said they were tortured, tied up and beaten and humiliated.
"One monk was hit with the back of a rifle and had his leg broken."
Deir Abu Fana, in the province of Minya, has a high proportion of Coptic Christians and contains several monasteries particularly sacred to the community.
A similar incident took place in Minya in October, resulting in 20 people receiving injuries.
Deir Abu Fana clash
A Muslim resident of Deir Abu Fana was killed during Saturday's inter-communal clashes.
Two Coptic Christian workers at the monastery suffered bullet wounds and were admitted to hospital in a critical condition, while two monks suffered injuries.
Father Dumadius, who witnessed the attack, said that at least 60 men carrying weapons stormed the Abu Fana monastery on Saturday.
"They split into several groups. One group proceeded to destroy the wall. Others entered a chapel used by the monks and destroyed and burned property," he said.
Muslim residents of the area claim the agricultural land on which the monastery's wall is being built as theirs, and say it is damaging their crops.
Shops robbed
The developments in Deir Abu Fana came against a backdrop of attacks against Christian jewellers over the past week that prompted one Coptic member of Egypt's parliament to claim on Thursday that police were not adequately protecting the community.
Armed men stormed a jewelry shop in Cairo on Wednesday and killed the Coptic Christian owner and three of his assistants, but did not steal anything.
The suspected assailant was arrested on Sunday, but another Coptic-owned jewelry store was targeted the same day, this time in the port city of Alexandria.
No one was killed, but about $28,000 worth of merchandise was stolen.
Police claim the incidents are entirely criminal in nature and not sectarian.
Posted by Marisol at June 2, 2008 12:07 AM
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A Muslim resident of Deir Abu Fana was killed during Saturday's inter-communal clashes.
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Alrighty, then. Ahem... BTW, aren't these technically known as ghazwahs? Are houris awarded?
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at June 2, 2008 1:24 AM
Obviously, Muslims attacking Christians isn't sectarian. Inconceivable.
Posted by: aynrandgirl at June 2, 2008 2:05 AM
Is this an example of tearing down the walls that separate the world's religions?
Maybe not so much.
Posted by: tanstaafl at June 2, 2008 8:13 AM
"They split into several groups. One group proceeded to destroy the wall. Others entered a chapel used by the monks and destroyed and burned property," he said
This was a well planned attack and not one of a mob. That this was muslims and religious in nature, and not primarily criminal, is because of the wall.
Criminals interested in profit would not bother tearing down any walls.
Besides it's A-1 Ok to rob from dirty kufr's especially Christian or Jewish ones. Remember that Imam posting a while back that advocated hitting Jews on the head and robbing them?
I don't think every muslim is interested in enriching themselves in this manner, but for the ones that are, Islam is perfect, and there seem to be lots of them. There's a whole lot of robbing going on...Allah must be willing...
at June 2, 2008 1:24 PM
Must have been one helluva wall.
Posted by: profitsbeard at June 2, 2008 9:19 PM
If Egypt continues to ignore basic human rights, why does our government insist on sending 100s of millions of our tax dollars to Egypt??? Dhimmi payments to the "religion of pieces"??? Let them stew in their own squalor, with NO help from us! Allow only Egyptian Copts to immigrate to the US!
Posted by: NamFrank at June 3, 2008 10:32 AM
From the Rules for Dhimmis (non-Muslims living under Muslim rule), as set out in the legendary 9C 'Pact of Omar':
..."we will neither erect in our areas a monastery, church, or a sanctuary for a monk, nor restore any place of worship that needs restoration...
"If we break any of these promises that we set for your benefit against ourselves, then our Dhimmah (promise of protection) is broken and you are allowed to do with us what you are allowed of people of defiance and rebellion.'''
{NOTE - 'what you are allowed people of defiance and rebellion' = open warfare, mass murder, rape and enslavement and robbery, i.e. the Jihad resumes. Note also that THIS CLAUSE – which provides that ANY perceived, or supposed, or pretended, or even merely rumoured ‘breach’ of the punishingly oppressive Rules for Dhimmis, justifies Total War to properly punish the ‘offending’ community – has throughout history, in every part of the Empire of Islam, provided the pretext for Muslims to carry out pogroms against dhimmi communities - see Bat Yeor The Dhimmi and Andrew Bostom, 'Legacy of Jihad' and 'Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism'}.
Another translation of the clause I quoted, concerning the rule forbidding dhimmis building places of worship, reads as follows:
"We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries, Churches, convents, or monks' cells, nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims."
Now - I first read the story of this Muslim attack on an Egyptian monastery, in the Australian Broadcasting Commission website (source: AFP) and in JPost ( source: AP).
If either AFP or AP had been truly doing their job they would have included in their versions of the story a brief reference to that clause, from the Pact of Omar, that I have quoted above, by way of pointing their readers to the historical and social background to the events - DHIMMITUDE.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 4, 2008 5:32 AM
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