the third time he left he didn't come back. he was brought back and lie down here. also written here on my arm i have an image of jesus christ i like it a lot i also have one of pope shenouda and the madonna. every single tattoo is really important to me. the eldest son cross wears short sleeved shirts to show off his tattoos openly displaying your affiliation to the christian minority in an islamic country can be seen as an act of defiance especially now when such tatoos might easily mark someone as a potential victim.

an old fit weaves its way through cairo's ancient streets early in the morning. a priest of the archangel michael church is late for the first service. it starts at six in the morning to enable believers to pray before they go to work sunday is not a day of rest in egypt. it . is not medical with people who come to the church today or are regular congregation they come here every sunday to pray. recently it has become very difficult to a boy's discussions about politics and violence between christians and muslims. i

don't want but i really beg god church goes nuts to turn the house of god into a place of arguments. for the fickle in regards to the religious conflicts of course we all worry about it not just the cops but the whole country does after the revolution and the overthrow of mubarak the church has been attacked about ten times. but i will still keep saying that the muslims are all brothers. from. the cairo suburb of sources similar to many of the capital's districts they all have a poor area of high rise buildings where cops and muslims live together. this neighborhood was quite peaceful until april fifth two thousand and thirteen when two coptic teenagers painted a swastika on the wall of an islamic school. the muslims were ascended not by the nazi symbol but that it was him blazoned with the christiane cross an angry mob

started to gather near the church. at the time someone from the mosque behind the church came and told us there was some sort of fight as he suggested that we all stay together all the christians gathered around the church to defend our walk in about fifteen twenty minutes i saw some cars people got out and started shooting all over the place there are still bullet holes outside on the church moves the people we saw were people falling down beaten by other people there were a lot of injured somebody also threw take us grenades but in the form of all. during the conflict almost all of the christian men the full source went to protect the church they barricaded the surrounding streets and boarded up all of the churches windows and doors.

if there had been no response to the shooting they would have broken into the church for six people were killed they were shot in the heads or the heart because it means they were professionals let's be honest there are plenty of weapons in this country in the middle they had silenced firearms which hardly make a sound but they're still lethal. muggers kamil was shot during the attack his wife prefers to live with relatives now because she is afraid to return to her apartment and horses. i wanted to stop him but he said the house of god is on fire and i have to go and defend it we were at home and could smell the tear gas because of the bombs the police were throwing their own houses quite far from the church but we could still smell it that is why my husband closed all the doors and windows to protect us from

the slow whenever i tried to stop him but he said that the church was on fire after this he left. i got a call later they told me he had been shot at. the local cops a certain of the massacre was not started by their muslim neighbors but by foreign extremists to the yes since the fall of mubarak's regime islamic radicals of all backgrounds have been growing in strength from a minute the reason for the hate is because of sheikhs like abu slum stirring things up. he said from the start that he would like not just for seven cops dead in the who's attack but seventy or seven hundred or even seven thousand. they say it's wrong to scorn the islamic religion is that all but is it ok to despise us is. a noble whose what happened and who was one of the christian muslim conflicts in egypt that has been going on

for the past thirty years mr christians are always the first ones to attack it it's really difficult to make ordinary people come down and control themselves. must move the bullet was love is one of the most controversial figures in egyptian public life he calls himself a humble soldier in the media war against cop to christianity. islam denounces cupcake plots on his internet channel. like. under milk. i think they want to kill. welcome in london. with bottom line and blog.

oh are. in also ten years ago about five percent of the egyptian population support of my viewpoint today it is at least seventy five percent because the church has brought discredit upon itself with its actions they show their worst side they said that christians of muslims are neighbors but insulted allah drew crosses everywhere an extended tory and then bill charges on it people got angry they did what he did i get my share and many. other wisdom rose to notoriety after destroying a copy of the bible in front of the american embassy in cairo one year after the nine eleven attacks he has been taken to court but until recently i do islamic extremist ex has passed by without legal consequences.

about ten percent of egypt's eighty million population a cup to christiane's making them the biggest a nomination in the middle east the cup the community has always been a difficult issue with national politics this christian minority is defined by its higher level of education income and unity however for generations culp's of had to put up with the unspoken rules of them from holding senior positions in the government security services to the winter revolution of twenty eleven many christians hopes that religious segregation would disappear along with the regime. i was the first woman in the history of egypt to be elected successfully agonise but. the percentage of cops in the muslim brotherhood parliament now is also very

small less than half a percent. and one million if there's not a single coptic representative in the government of the muslim brotherhood comes. out with a muggeridge victory didn't last too long when mubarak's place was taken by president morsi with the parliament practically dominated by islamic parties there was no place for her. vision for most. there's no doubt that copts in egypt are living in fear because every day we hear some extremist announcements which are eating into our country we expected that the cops just like all egyptians here woodgate their rights or at least get freedom and social justice to all of them but now they're terrified even more because they're more islamic faith was. they want to make us pay the g.c.i.

slavek tax they want to put a tax on christianity make us where they hit capital and reduce the minimum age of marriage by look at the final thing they want to legitimize is the matter of keeping kidnapped christian women so they don't have to return them to their parents to hit. them on honey prays every day for a sixteen year old daughter's life and health she hasn't seen up for almost a year. where she was sixteen years old this is what i have no idea why she left. i was at work she was at home with her brother she told him she was going out with her muslim girlfriend to buy sunglasses and would be back home soon but she went away and didn't come back as i don't know anything about that friend of hers but i'm sure she took her somewhere.

yemen hung over is convinced her daughter didn't run away but was kidnapped she is certainly. the police barely even tried to find her daughter. that was the model i went to the police and declared her missing and they called me periodic lee asking whether or not i've solved the problem i always answer is it me who has to solve it maybe they also told me i have to cooperate with them how come they didn't question that muslim girl. we've documented about five hundred cases of girls disappearing off to the revolution the case of fourteen year old. is one of the most famous i don't remember the name of the man who was accused in the kidnapping he was the owner of a bookstore. she went out and didn't come back. called the hospitals and declared her missing cording to witnesses the last place she was seen was that's exactly

what store. owner was accused and there was a warrant to arrest him but it wasn't carried out. abraham lewis heads the coptic civic organization that investigates cases of christian girls who have disappeared most of the time the girls do run away with their muslims the un says but kidnappings do occur the police try not to get involved especially if there's information that the missing girl had already converted to islam. and am. wearing

a hit job is their choice they talk about it frankly on the internet and these are not rare cases there are hundreds thousands and. thousands of them it is evident that the church has some social and cultural problems provoking the christian girls to convert to islam nobody's being kidnapped. the people who died in the houses attack including there was a tia and marcus scammell were buried two days after the tragedy the funeral began in the center of cairo next to some coptic orthodox cathedral like many other large gatherings in the past two years the several thousand strong funeral procession erupted into a massive protest resulting in confrontations the funeral lead to further violence and two more people died and. the priest. asks everyone in the church to pray for peace between muslims and copts to remind his congregation that god is patient and kind that is why all christians have to be

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me eve you. mean. there's a small village two hours' drive from cairo typifies the egyptian provinces unemployment and poverty are rife coptic christians make up a fifth of the local population in this small church they used to thank god that

the sectarian clashes were happening far from the quiet village that was until the day a muslim man got into a fight on the street with a cult. what's happened that day is nothing out of the ordinary between neighbors there was a small fight because of a dog that was bothering them one of them asked them to get rid of the dog the other refused one thing led to another and they fought it's nothing special. friends and relatives of the cult and the muslims soon began to gather where the site taken place. the domestic conflict can easily escalate into widespread violence in egypt. someone was hit the others responded there were casualties on both sides. as always happens between farmers they gather to clear up the situation and understand who was right or wrong. peacefully at the

end of the day. with that in our village no one wants to make things complicated and aggravate the problem is that we're not used to making something out of nothing of blowing things out of proportion. in turn touches era local elders and the priest managed to settle the conflict however violence could not be avoided in autumn of two thousand and eleven in the southern city of us one muslims attacked a christian church and tried to burn it down they said it had been built without permission. two days later ten cells outraged cops went out to protest in the center of cairo right in front of the mosquito state television building they claim against us once local gov and called for an independent inquiry into the church attack. that then. that's when this happened in mass farah i wasn't far away from the egyptian

television broadcasting center i work very video cairo suddenly we could hear gunfire i saw military trucks going back and forth a great speeder and must be people were forced either to the side of the road or towards the nile i saw a lot of bodies it was often people whose arms and legs and being ripped off other people tried to cover the bodies somehow my colleagues and i tried to escape to the televisions office buildings but they attacked us we tried to short documents i was one of the first there and the officer figured i had from my name that i was a christian he started yelling at me and hit me on the head and i got both of them up and i thought. twenty lives were tragically lost and they missed the incident was about another two hundred people were injured.

this was attacked from there e.g. . the interior power against the christian against the world using the bullets using to get all the snow we're not talking about in the since enormous into the bout to arm it for forces for the interior ministry. who is responsible for this for sure morsi which we call the brilliant. god. to show you as a member of the must go movement that was formed by a young called off to the tragedy the goal is to achieve christian rights through nonviolent means.

in the works of the dream about one one hundred four christian has been killed in six years not in twenty years and more that is known to live in christians that have been injure. a through their lives and you should. one hundred and one hundred four families have been forced to immigrate. to mubarak things got worse for the cops not of the pro islamic government nor politics focused on protecting religious minorities to fundamentalists complete christians are an ideal scapegoat is the enemy was able. to really christians are deprived of rights i would love to have the same rights christians have in egypt that was exactly the thing i asked abdul alim musa the

former interior minister i still want this because christians here have many more rights than muslims to and. so on and so on. while recording this interview. received some unfortunate nears. the trial court had sentenced him to eleven years for extremism. travelling from the center of egypt's capital to those of a lean district is like traveling back in time the words of a lean means rubbish people here they're all christians.

no one can tell exactly how many people live in this area that was founded in the middle of the twentieth century. there is from hundreds of thousands to half a million rescue says their lives they collected from all around cairo bring it back here and pick through it by hand. but the process has five stages that of what the first one is on the ground they have to separate the garbage from. the second starts after they wash it down i want to after washing we have to use this machine to heat it up but i don't know what if it requires a really high temperature on my part that it heats the refuse i'm not going to this is the third stage of the whole procedure so first you have to wash it and then to heat it by a good after all that it goes to the factory to be recycled. this

is the view of the cairo citadel from those of a lean leaders house he doesn't pick up rubbish from the streets anymore but he knows all the details of the trade perfectly. adds a better garbage collectors working day goes something like. this out of he starts work at four am he knows which part in which area he has to cover with his children he gathers garbage until nine or ten in the morning then he returns home with all of it his children and wife help them to separate all the material once a week people come to this place to buy the garbage this is how he earns a living for his family. even took part in municipal elections but failed to become a deputy. what he regrets most is that the revolution supported by those i believe

in has done nothing for his people in fact this situation has become worse they have slowly been hounded out of business by big companies who are now collecting the garbage radical islamic preachers even want to kick them out of the area. the bible and jesus teaches that religion and god means loving by fellow man christians do not want power or senior positions we don't want to rule egypt all we want is to preserve our country were born and raised where we drank the nile's water and where our forefathers died defending egypt christians died untouched here square during the revolution just like many others we want to live raise our children in safety and we want our church to be safe we have a right to ask for it because we have the same rights as muslims in this country.

the archangel michael church was built not long ago its priest insists that a cupcake church already existed on this exact spot at the beginning of the third century. at that time christian suffered persecution from the romans even their own calendar stuff from two hundred eighty four a deed to so-called error of months. is. aware that we are in a state of psychological war right now it is tough of course they try to intimidate and terrorize christians if they kidnap young girls down in christian shops and pharmacies but the situation is different from the one under the roman empire and not period of time they tried to kill all the christians as for us i'm speaking as a cop to a church priest we are not calling for emigration somebody wants to leave let them go but i want everyone to know that we will die but we will never leave our country

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