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Muslim woman's disappearance with Copt leads to tensions in Upper Egypt
[Al Ahram] Representatives of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church met with a top interior ministry official and representatives of a number of political groups in an effort to contain possible unrest caused by the disappearance of a Mohammedan woman from Upper Egypt, who allegedly converted to Christianity and fled to Turkey with an Egyptian Christian.The 21-year-old woman's father, Hatem El-Shazly, was present at the meeting, while the parents of the man who is accused of escorting the girl to Turkey, Zaki Tawfiq Andraous and Souad Akhnon, remain in police custody pending investigations into allegations of incitement to kidnap and concealing information about their son.
Hudeib said at a presser that the woman, Rana Hatem El-Shazly, travelled to Turkey, escorted by Ebram Andraous. The dispute began in February when members of the Salafist Nour Party and the Salafist organization Al-Gamaa Al-Salafaya gathered at Al-Wasti cop shoppe in the Upper Egypt province of Beni Suef to protest the alleged kidnapping and forced conversion of the woman. The woman's relatives had reportedly found a number of Christian books in her personal library, which led them to suspect the involvement of the Church in her disappearance. This is not the first protest against an alleged kidnapping in recent months. In February, festivities erupted in Kom Ombo in Aswan, also in Upper Egypt, after local Mohammedans accused Christians of kidnapping a middle-aged Mohammedan woman and forcing her to convert to Christianity. In Egypt, marriage between a Christian man and a Mohammedan woman is forbidden; Mohammedan men and Christian women are allowed to marry, however. Posted by: Fred 2013-04-25 |
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