Ravaged churches reveal sectarian split feeding Egypt’s violence

Washington Post, ^ | 8/20/13 | Abigail Hauslohner

[Nachum]

BENI MAZAR, Egypt — The fire burned all night long. It was only after desperate town residents borrowed the keys to a firetruck that they were able to quell the blaze. By then, the evangelical church was all but destroyed. It was one of more than 60 churches that have been attacked, vandalized and in many cases set aflame across Egypt in a surge of violence against Christians that has followed the bloody Aug. 14 raid by Egyptian security forces on two Islamist protest camps in Cairo. The attacks, most of them in Egypt’s Nile Valley, have lent legitimacy to

[Nachum]

Oh I see... it is the Christians own fault they were forced to cancel Sunday Mass for the first time in 1600 years...

Kind of like the German Jew who ducked when a brick missed his head... and was held responsible for the broken window behind him by the Nazi court....

[Cicero]

The new Washington ComPost. Much like the old Washington ComPost.

Oh, I guess the sale doesn’t go through for a couple of months.

[Lera]

Sectarian split my ... (fill in the blank lol)

No this is the REAL ISLAM
this is what the religion of murder does best

[RitaOK]

Just noticed Egyptian Military has ordered the army to rebuild every Coptic Church destroyed. Nice. (hotair post)

[iontheball]

Note how the article confuses the issue by using the term ‘Islamists’ instead of ‘Muslim Brotherhood,’ as if the two were somehow different.