Egypt bomb kills 21 at Alexandria Coptic church
(with video) More than 70 others were injured in the attack, during a new year's service at the al-Qiddissin (Saints) Church in the northern port city of Alexandria. Coptic Christians and Muslims clashed after the attack, but police moved in and used tear gas to restore order. President Hosni Mubarak urged Egyptians to unite against "terrorism".In a televised statement, he blamed "foreign hands" for the bombing ... The mosque was also damaged by the bomb and the casualties included eight injured Muslims, the health ministry said.
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Why? This Egyptian answers the question quite well:
ReplyDeleteMuch of it will be sheer hypocrisy; a great deal of it will be variously nuanced so as keep, just below the surface, the heaps of narrow-minded prejudice, flagrant double standard and, indeed, bigotry that holds in its grip so many of the participants in the condemnations.
All of it will be to no avail. We’ve been here before; we’ve done exactly that, yet the massacres continue, each more horrible than the one before it, and the bigotry and intolerance spread deeper and wider into every nook and cranny of our society.
Read the whole thing.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/4/0/2977/Opinion/J%E2%80%99accuse.aspx
Thanks vza.. I'll take the time to read it.
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