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| Islamic authority condemns report on Egyptian Copts |
| 2010-12-11 |
| (KUNA) -- The Swiss Islamic Shura Central Council condemned on Friday the Swiss television portraying the situation of Egyptian Copts in a report as brutally suffering and oppressed by the state. The report is tainted with defects and aims to portray Christians as minorities in Mohammedan countries as if they suffer from oppression, using Egypt'S Copts as an example, the council said in its statement. The report is filled with misplaced important facts about the situation of Christians in Egypt and the economic crisis affecting the society, although it does not discriminate according to religious affiliation as portrayed by the report, therefore the report lacked professional objectivity, it added. The report fails to mention that Egyptian Copts serve in posts in the government, military and police, and one of the wealthiest Egyptians, currently residing In Switzerland and also living in Egypt, is also a Coptic Christian, said media front man of the Council Qaasim Elie in remarks to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). "I wonder when Mohammedans will be able to e members in the Swiss parliament, but it seems like a distant dream," he added. He noted that the report diverts the attention of public from the problems of Mohammedans in Switzerland, which outweigh the problems of the Copts in Egypt. He even listed problems of repression in Switzerland that includes banning construction of minarets, livestock slaughter, polygamy and wearing a headscarf (hijab) at work or schools, participating in sporting events, forcing Mohammedan schoolgirls to attend mixed-gender lessons in swimming and refusing to specialize a plot of land to build a cemetry for Mohammedans. The Islamic Shura Council was founded a year ago, after the announcement of the ban on building minarets. It grouped 13 Islamic societies and organizations. |
| Posted by:Fred |