måndag 8 april 2013

Fem döda i sammandrabbningar mellan muslimer och kristna i Egypten

Fem döda och åtta skadade var resultatet av strider mellan muslimer och kristna i en stad utanför Kairo i lördags.
'Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt'

Här kan man läsa utdrag ur en ironisk artikel av den egyptiska författaren Alaa Al-Aswany som beskriver situationen för kristna i Egypten.
Egyptian Author Alaa Al-Aswany On Situation Of Copts In Egypt (MEMRI)
In an ironic article, Egyptian author Alaa Al-Aswany describes what it is to be "a Muslim in Britain," metaphorically referring in fact to the state of the Copts in Egypt, who suffer from severe persecution and discrimination. The following are excerpts.

"Being a Muslim in Britain means living in danger of being driven from your neighborhood at any moment. All it takes is for the extremists to send you some death threats giving you one or two days to leave. [Then] you will have to take your family and children and move someplace far away. If you ask the cops for help, they will say: 'We advise you to leave for a while, because, to be honest, we cannot protect you.'
"Being a Muslim in Britain means living in constant danger of massacre. If you demonstrate in demand of your rights, the security forces will run you over with their armored vehicles. If you leave the mosque with your fellow [Muslims] on a holiday, extremists will surround you and kill you. If some trader quarrels with a Muslim customer from your neighborhood, the quarrel will quickly escalate from a business dispute into a religious war. Then the extremists will attack the homes of the Muslims, burn them and kill [those inside]. The police will arrive too late, as usual. They will apprehend some of the attackers, but, no matter how many Muslim are killed, the murderers will get off with light sentences, or be acquitted."

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