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Copt home attacked after Morsi promises security
| One set of statements in English for the gullible western reporters and diplomats, one set of statements in Arabic for his fellow Islamicists... |
| Arabic statement unneeded -- everyone knows the rules for this kind of situation. |
Gunmen opened fire on the home of a Coptic Christian in the Sinai peninsula on Saturday, hours after a visit by President Mohamed Morsi to reassure Christian residents they would not be targeted again.
| They weren't targetted. It's just that their house was in the way of the flying bullets. |
Hard boyz Gunmen "used automatic weapons when they opened fire on the house of a Coptic resident of Rafah hours after the president left," a security official told AFP. There were no reports of casualties, he said.
Witnesses told AFP three gunmen in a car fired on the house of Magdi Niruz before fleeing the scene.
Morsi had visited the Sinai peninsula on Friday to meet with and reassure families who fled Rafah to El-Arish after receiving death threats. This "will not happen again," Morsi told a group of local Bedouin tribal chiefs and other residents of El-Arish.
| He was lying, of course... |
"Your security is our security," he said.
| Given that the whole country is falling apart, that part of his statement might be true... |
"What happened is an individual case which represents neither Egypt nor its children, Muslim or Christian. It's crime for which the perpetrators must be held responsible," MENA quoted Morsi as saying.
| Somehow it's always an individual run amok, never the pattern of behaviour it seems... |
According to residents and officials in Rafah, on the border with Gaza, Christian families fled to El-Arish about 30 kilometres (19 miles) away after having received death threats from Islamists. Leaflets were circulated in Rafah demanding that the Coptic community leave or be killed, residents said. A shop owned by a Coptic family was subsequently machine-gunned.
Egypt's Christians, who make up six to 10 percent of the country's population of 82 million, have regularly complained of discrimination and marginalisation. They have also been the target of numerous sectarian attacks.
| And they have nowhere to go... |
Posted by: Steve White 2012-10-08 |
