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Thousands of Muslim protestors on Sunday (Nov. 23) attacked a Coptic church in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt, burning part of it, a nearby shop and two cars and leaving five people injured. Objecting to a newly constructed extension to the church of St. Mary and Anba Abraam in Ain Shams, the huge crowd of angry protestors gathered outside the church at around 5 p.m. following a consecration service for the addition earlier that day. Chanting, “We will demolish the church,” “Islam is the solution” and “No God but Allah,” rioters pelted the church with stones and burned part of the structure; priests and worshipers were trapped inside, and five people were injured. “It was a terrifying moment,” said lawyer Nabil Gobrayel, who was inside the church at the time. “They were shouting ‘holy slogans’ like, ‘We will bring the church down,’ ‘The priest is dead’ and ‘The army of Muhammad is coming.’”AINA:
Thousands of Muslims stormed a church in Ain Shams, Cairo, on Sunday and set fire to the building. The Muslims were enraged by an extension that was added to the church of St. Mary and Anba Abraam (AINA 11-26-2008)DHIMMITUDE REPORTED BY THE AFP:The following videos show the mob storming the church, chanting "Allahu Akbar!" (God is greatest).
Coptic pope bars prayers in Cairo hall after clashesDHIMMITUDE ISNLT THE ANSWER.
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CAIRO (AFP) — Coptic Pope Shenuda III has banned Egyptian Christians from praying in a church-owned building in Cairo after sectarian clashes there with Muslims, state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.
Police arrested at least eight men after Muslims on Sunday night clashed with Copts in the Cairo neighbourhood of Ein Shams in protest at the building's use as a Christian prayer hall, throwing stones and burning two cars.
Pope Shenuda III "has ordered a cessation to prayers in the building belonging to the Church of Virgin Mary... after confrontations between the worshippers and some of the neighbourhood's residents in front of the building," the agency quoted him as saying.
The building was a disused factory that the church had bought.
Copts complain of an antiquated law, inherited from when Egypt was under Ottoman rule, that obliges them to secure presidential permission before building a church or expanding an existing church.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has delegated such decisions to provincial governors, but human rights groups say that sectarian problems will persist until the state passes a single law for both Muslim and Christian places of worship.
Egypt's Copts -- the largest Christian community in the Middle East -- account for an estimated six to 10 percent of the country's 80 million inhabitants.
WIPING OUT ISLAMOFASCISM IS.
WHATEVER IT TAKES.
BUSH AND PETRAEUS PRVED WE VCAN DEFEAT THEM IF WE HAVE THE RESOLVE.
I FEAR OBAMA WILL BEHAVE MORE LIKE THE COPTIC POPE.
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