igloo Posted March 6 Report Share Posted March 6 Egypt Deploys 1,000 Police After Christians Killed SOHAG, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities deployed some 1,000 police around a southern town on Saturday to forestall any Muslim-Christian clashes after two Christian men were killed in a street brawl, security sources said. The Christians were axed to death after a donkey being ridden by a Muslim man slipped on the wet roadway outside their house in the town of Salamoun, about 350 km (220 miles) south of Cairo, they said. The donkey rider was later arrested and questioned. Witnesses in the town said there had been no further violence but the situation was tense. Salamoun, a Nile valley town of about 40,000 people, is close to 40 percent Coptic Christian but was also a stronghold of militant Islamists who fought the government in the 1990s. Tensions between the Muslim and Christian communities are a sporadic problem in southern Egypt. The last major outbreak of violence was in 1999, when 20 Christians were killed and 33 people wounded in the southern village of Kosheh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babbo Posted March 6 Report Share Posted March 6 Originally posted by igloo Egypt Deploys 1,000 Police After Christians Killed SOHAG, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities deployed some 1,000 police around a southern town on Saturday to forestall any Muslim-Christian clashes after two Christian men were killed in a street brawl, security sources said. The Christians were axed to death after a donkey being ridden by a Muslim man slipped on the wet roadway outside their house in the town of Salamoun, about 350 km (220 miles) south of Cairo, they said. The donkey rider was later arrested and questioned. Witnesses in the town said there had been no further violence but the situation was tense. Salamoun, a Nile valley town of about 40,000 people, is close to 40 percent Coptic Christian but was also a stronghold of militant Islamists who fought the government in the 1990s. Tensions between the Muslim and Christian communities are a sporadic problem in southern Egypt. The last major outbreak of violence was in 1999, when 20 Christians were killed and 33 people wounded in the southern village of Kosheh. this was done in retaliation for a muslim losing a backsgammon game to Jew in 1914- lmfao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghhhhhost Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 this is nothin new..the orthodox Copt Christians r mistreated by the muslim majority on a daily basis... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siceone Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 a donkey slipped so these guys got killed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghhhhhost Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 any excuse to kill a Copt in egypt is a good one man... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g420 Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 Everyone remember, incidents like this prove to the world that Islam is a religion of peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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