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Lawrence of Arabia

06:39:19 am on June 4, 2008 | # | |
Tags: christianity, Copts, Egypt

Coptic monks building a wall on disputed land near the Abu Fana monastery led to an exchange of gunfire.
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Willow 12:36 pm on June 4, 2008 | #

Leave it to our yellow press to write up a land dispute as religious violence. Upper Egyptians rely on their land for their livelihood–there would have been violence no matter what the religion of the people involved.
Lawrence of Arabia 6:18 pm on June 4, 2008 | #

this is probably true. what disturbed me most about the story was that the MONKS HAD GUNS!!! (at least that is how i read the story; you can’t have an exchange of gunfire w/out both sides having guns…right?)….wtf?!?
willow 9:12 pm on June 4, 2008 | #

Man, I wouldn’t mess with any Saeedi–Coptic, Muslim, monk or otherwise…the govt stopped trying to take their guns away years ago…

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