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finance 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 you know it's come up 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. if it. did it. downloads. well with people who come to the church today or are regular congregation they come
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here every sunday to pray. recently it has become very difficult to a boy's discussions about politics and violence between christians and muslims and i don't want but i really beg our church goes nuts to turn the house of god into a place of arguments on the fourth because i do in regards to the religious conflicts of course we all worry about it not just the cult 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 who will follow. the cairo suburb of new sources similar to many of the capitals districts they will have a core area of high rise buildings where cops and muslims live together. this neighborhood was. peaceful until april fifth two thousand and thirteen when two
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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 a christian 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 he suggested that we all stay together all the christians gathered around the church to defend. in about fifteen to twenty minutes i saw some cars people got out and started shooting all over the place there are still full of holes outside on the church. of the people we saw were people falling down beaten by other people there were a lot of injured somebody also threw a tear gas grenades.
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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 in a car they were shot in the head or the heart because it means they were professionals let's be honest there are plenty of weapons in this country. they had silenced firearms which hardly make a sound but they're still lethal. muckers kamil was shot during the attack his wife prefers to live with her relatives now because she is afraid to return to her apartment and close. i wanted to stop him but he said the house of god is on fire and have. to go and
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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 slogan whenever i try 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 in. the local cops asserting that 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 the minute the reason for the hate is because of sheiks like abu slum stirring things up. he said from the start that he would like not just for seven cops dead in the hoose attack but seventy or seven hundred or even seven thousand. they say it's wrong to score in the islamic religion is that all
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but is it ok to despise us. in almost the whole what happened and who was one of the christian muslim conflicts in egypt that has been going on for the past thirty years missed christians are always the first ones to attack it is really difficult to make ordinary people come down and control themselves. must move the bullet for 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. the one i think they want to feel. welcomed in london.
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without a warning and blog. well . oh are. not ten years ago about five percent of the egyptian population supported my viewpoint and 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 what would he then i get my share and many. other
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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 islam's extremist tax cut 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 after the winter revolution of twenty eleven many christians hopes that religious segregation would disappear along with the regime.
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but 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. however 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. the shocking wealth from us. there's no doubt that copts in egypt are living in fear because every day we hear some extremist announcements which are into our country so we expected that the
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cops just like all egyptians here woodgate their rights or at least get freedom and social justice all of them but now they're terrified even more because they're more islamic that 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 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 hate. them and hunt prays every day for the sixteen year old daughter's life and else she hasn't seen up for almost a year. where she was sixteen years old missing 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
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would be back home soon. 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 hunger is convinced her daughter didn't run away but was kidnapped she was certain the. the police barely even tried to find her daughter. that was the model i went to the police and declared her missing they call 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 and. 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
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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 farther called the hospitals and declared her missing cording to witnesses the last place she was seen was that exact store. owner was accused and there was a warrant to arrest him but it wasn't carried out. abraham lewis it's the coptic civic organization that investigates cases of christian girls who've 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.
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and still am. wearing a hit job is their choice they talk about it frankly on the internet and these are not rare cases there are a hundred something. 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 house was attacking looting 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 months 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 led to further violence and two more people died and. the priest come out
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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 patient and to enjoy. this is. you know. we are facing a lot of problems. because no one thought to drink no good school. when you feel for.
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there's a small village two hours drive from cairo that 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
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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. no one wants to make things complicated and aggravate the problem is that we're not used to making something out of nothing all blowing things out of proportion and fought for it. in turn to just 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
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against us once local government and called for an independent inquiry into the church attack. and. that's when this happened in mass farah i wasn't far away from the egyptian television broadcasting center i work there are 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 out 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 on the head. twenty lives were tragically lost in the most beto
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incident was about another two hundred people were injured. this was attack from there e.g. . the interior power against the christian again is the. using the bullets moving 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.
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little. god. to show you as a member of the must better movement it was formed by young cops off to the tragedy the goal is to achieve christian rights through nonviolent means. 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 home to live in christians and injure. after that event you should. one hundred and one hundred four families have been forced to immigrate. after mubarak things got worse for the cops neither the pro islamic government nor politics focused on protecting religious minorities for fundamentalists complete
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christians are an ideal scapegoat is the enemy within. the 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 ali mussa the former interior minister i still want this because christians here have many more rights than muslims to and. so on and so no problem. while recording this interview. received some unfortunate nears. the trial court had sentenced him to eleven years for extremism.
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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 hear the bull kristen's. no one can tell exactly how many people live in this area that was founded in the middle of the twentieth century that 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 go after washing we have to use this machine to heat it up but that you know what if
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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 i ended after all that it goes to the factory to be recycled. this is the view of the cairo citadel from the resembling 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 he starts work at four am 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
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children and wife help them to separate out 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 the 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 and 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
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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 d. to so-called era of must. we are in a state of psychological war right now it is tough of course to try to intimidate and terrorize christians if they kidnap young girls down the christian shops and
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pharmacies but the situation is different from the one under the roman empire but not period of time they tried to kill the christians with it as for us i'm speaking as a cult to a church priest we are not courting the emigration somebody wants to be let them go but i want everyone to know that we will die but we will never leave our country. there's a media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the sea pushing your. play your party years ago. bush is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on our t.v. . wealthy british style.
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