Actually it is, for the umpteenth time another example of how women are treated in Islam, especially non-Muslim women.
Wait, do I hear the hoofbeats of the feminists and liberals riding to the rescue of these poor oppressed Christian girls?
...crickets...
From AKI July 1
Egypt: 'Harassment of Christian girls' sparks sectarian strife
Samalout, 1 July (AKI) - Security forces on Friday quelled sectarian clashes that broke out late Thursday in central Egypt after local Muslims allegedly harassed some Christian girls, Al Masry Al Youm daily reported.
Eyewitnesses said fighting began in the village of Qolosna in Upper Egypt's Minya Governorate after several Muslim taxi drivers reportedly bothered a group of Christian girls.
Define "bothered"
Shots were fired in the air and the injured - four Christians and three Muslims, according to security sources - were taken to hospital in the nearby town of Samalout.
Security sources said 10 people were arrested over the clashes and are being investigated.
Eyewitnesses said the military had imposed a local curfew starting after Friday afternoon prayers.
Coptic Christians account for about 10 percent of Egypt's population and have been repeatedly targeted by Muslim extremists.
As recently as last week, hundreds of extremist Muslims surrounded a church in a village 7 kilometres south of Minya and threatened to kill the local priest, the Assyrian International News Agency reported. The extremists began targeting the church iin March after renovation work began, threatening to demolish the church.
Twenty-four people were killed and around 100 injured in a New Year's Eve bombing of a Coptic church in the northern Egyptian port city of Alexandria.
Wait, do I hear the hoofbeats of the feminists and liberals riding to the rescue of these poor oppressed Christian girls?
...crickets...
From AKI July 1
Egypt: 'Harassment of Christian girls' sparks sectarian strife
Samalout, 1 July (AKI) - Security forces on Friday quelled sectarian clashes that broke out late Thursday in central Egypt after local Muslims allegedly harassed some Christian girls, Al Masry Al Youm daily reported.
Eyewitnesses said fighting began in the village of Qolosna in Upper Egypt's Minya Governorate after several Muslim taxi drivers reportedly bothered a group of Christian girls.
Define "bothered"
Shots were fired in the air and the injured - four Christians and three Muslims, according to security sources - were taken to hospital in the nearby town of Samalout.
Security sources said 10 people were arrested over the clashes and are being investigated.
Eyewitnesses said the military had imposed a local curfew starting after Friday afternoon prayers.
Coptic Christians account for about 10 percent of Egypt's population and have been repeatedly targeted by Muslim extremists.
As recently as last week, hundreds of extremist Muslims surrounded a church in a village 7 kilometres south of Minya and threatened to kill the local priest, the Assyrian International News Agency reported. The extremists began targeting the church iin March after renovation work began, threatening to demolish the church.
Twenty-four people were killed and around 100 injured in a New Year's Eve bombing of a Coptic church in the northern Egyptian port city of Alexandria.
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No peace without acceptance of our right to believe in the God of our choice. Not the the god of their choice.
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