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Africa North

More about the Coptic priest’s killer

2022-06-13

Now we have a name, even if no affiliation.

[IsraelTimes] Nehru Tawfiq, 60, an Islamist with an bad boy background, convicted of murdering 56-year-old Arsanious Wadid in sectarian attack.

...in our archives spelt Arsanios Wadid.

An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced a man to die for the April stabbing death of a Coptic Christian priest in an attack that shocked the Arab world’s most populous nation.

Nehru Tawfiq, 60, was convicted in Alexandria criminal court of murder for killing 56-year-old priest Arsanious Wadid and of illegal possession of a knife. His lawyers had argued that the killing was not deliberate. Tawfiq can appeal the verdict.

Wadid was killed at a popular seaside promenade in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in April.

Investigators found that Tawfiq was an Islamist with an bad boy background. During last month’s court session he appeared in court in a caged-off section of the room shouting "God is great" in Arabic.

He attempted to recite verses from the Koran, the Moslem holy book, before judges ordered him to keep silent.

The attack marked the latest sectarian violence in Egypt. Islamic snuffies have repeatedly targeted Christians in recent years, especially after the 2013 military ouster of late Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, an elected but divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
leader, amid mass protests against his rule.

In September 2017, an alleged supporter of the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group stabbed to death an 82-year-old Christian doctor in Cairo. He was sentenced to death the following year.

Egyptian Copts — the Middle East’s largest Christian community — account for about 10% of the country’s 103 million people and repeatedly complain of discrimination at the hands of the Moslem majority.

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