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Muslim Cleric Calls for Jihad, Coptic Christians Attacked in Egypt
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries SHIMI, EGYPT (ANS) — Middle-East journalist, Mary Abdelmassih, is reporting that on Friday, August 13, 2010, Sheikh Tobah, an Imam from the Egyptian village of Shimi, 170 kilometers — 105 miles — south of Giza, called during Muslim Friday prayers for “Jihad” against Christians living there. “As a result the Christian Copts living in the village were assaulted over two consecutive days. Eleven Copts were hospitalized and many Coptic youths were arrested,” she said in a story for the Assyrian International News Agency (www.aina.org.) Abdelmassih said that the assaults began a couple of hours after the Sheikh’s incitement. … Read entire article »
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