Thousands of Salafists demand the release of woman allegedly held by Copts in Egypt

[News_Editor]

Thousands of Salafists demand the release of woman allegedly held by Copts in Egypt

2011-04-30 05:28:29 GMT+7 (ICT)

CAIRO, EGYPT (BNO NEWS) -- Around ten thousand Salafists on Friday took to the streets of the Egyptian capital to demand the release of a Copt who has converted to Islam and is allegedly locked in a monastery.

Ahram online reported that protesters marched in Cairo from a mosque to a Coptic cathedral calling for the freeing of Camilia Shehata and any other Copt whom, according to them, has converted to Islam and was locked in the monastery. Protesters held banners and chanted for the protection of any Muslim convert.

Shehata is the wife of a Coptic priest who disappeared last summer and was then found at a friend's house a few days later. The Salafists accuse the Coptic Church for holding Shehata because she adopted Islam, but the Church claims she is a Copt.

The military police surrounded the area to prevent any incidents, even though protesters assured that they had no intentions of getting into the cathedral. Salafists have been demanding the release of Shehata since before the Egyptian revolution, and sometimes they resulted in violence against Copts.

There are around 8 million Christian Copts in Egypt, which represent about 10 percent of the population.

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[Steely Dan]

Ahram online reported that protesters marched in Cairo from a mosque to a Coptic cathedral calling for the freeing of Camilia Shehata and any other Copt whom, according to them, has converted to Islam and was locked in the monastery. Protesters held banners and chanted for the protection of any Muslim convert.

As oppose to chanting for the death of any Christian convert. This is no small fringe protest with 10,000 present. It serves to underline the human right disaster that is about to occur in Egypt should the Islamists get in. Here is the kind of treatment women will encounter if the Muslim brotherhood/Salafists takeover.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nina-burleigh/egypt-and-the-universal-r_b_819178.html

Though I doubt this even figures as a consideration in the minds of the Israel haters who welcome any regime hostile to her and dam_n the consequences for the resident population.

[Orac]

Ahram online reported that protesters marched in Cairo from a mosque to a Coptic cathedral calling for the freeing of Camilia Shehata and any other Copt whom, according to them, has converted to Islam and was locked in the monastery. Protesters held banners and chanted for the protection of any Muslim convert.

As oppose to chanting for the death of any Christian convert. This is no small fringe protest with 10,000 present. It serves to underline the human right disaster that is about to occur in Egypt should the Islamists get in. Here is the kind of treatment women will encounter if the Muslim brotherhood/Salafists takeover.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nina-burleigh/egypt-and-the-universal-r_b_819178.html

Though I doubt this even figures as a consideration in the minds of the Israel haters who welcome any regime hostile to her and dam_n the consequences for the resident population.

I think I must have read the op differently as, to me, the issue seems to be a group of christians are holding a woman hostage because of her religious beliefs and a group of muslims are protesting for her freedom though I am sure it is more complex than that and is being used as a propaganda tool for both sides.

[Steely Dan]

Let's just say it's hardly knock for knock as Egypt systematically discriminates against other religions following the example of the cave dwelling theocrats of Saudi Arabia.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/28/us-blacklist-cites-egypt-for-religious-oppression/

Egypt, for the first time, was designated a “country of particular concern” for the “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its annual report released Thursday.

The independent, bipartisan commission also noted that President Obama has failed to add any country it cited for religious intolerance to a separate blacklist maintained by the State Department.