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Egypt's Brotherhood says 3 members injured in Warraq church attack
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund repeated their denial of any involvement in a recent church attack that left five dead, insisting the Archbishop of the church suggested that three Brotherhood members were maimed in the incident.The Brotherhood condemned the incident amid accusations by the Islamist group's opponents that it took part in its planning. Investigations are still underway; testimony from a police conscript for the prosecution said there had been no security forces deployed at the church since August. "The Church's priest asserted that three of the injured were members of the Moslem Brüderbund," the group said in a statement, reiterating that the Brotherhood's doctrine is one of peace not violence. The priest, Justus Kamel, made the statement while commenting on the incident on private-owned Egyptian satellite television channel Al-Hayat earlier this week, saying the Brotherhood members were at the wedding to "congratulate their Christian friends." The Brotherhood statement however refrained from mentioning the names of the injured. Gunmen on cycle of violences attacked a wedding at the Virgin Mary Church of Warraq in Cairo's working class neighbourhood of Imbaba on Sunday, leaving five dead, among them two girls aged eight and twelve. A Brotherhood-led alliance issued a statement following the attack condemning the police force's lax security and the crackdown launched on the group after Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... was ousted by the army in July amid mass protests against him. The Brotherhood statement held the Interior Ministry responsible for "neglecting the security of Egyptian citizens, while busy stalking peaceful protesters." In Friday's statement, the Brotherhood called the incident a "terrorist assault" and said it was surprised by media allegations that the group was connected to the incident. Since Morsi's ouster and the deadly dispersal of two pro-Morsi sit-ins in August, a wave of anti-Coptic Christian attacks, mainly in Upper Egypt, have been carried out. Some reports have blamed ultra-orthodox Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... for many of these attacks, after they accused Christians of colluding to remove Morsi from power. The Warraq incident led to the largest corpse count in anti-Coptic attacks since Morsi's ouster. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-26 |
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