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| Islamist group denounces potential holiday violence | |
| 2014-01-01 | |
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Building and Development Party -- the political wing of the ultra-conservative Islamist group Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya -- warned in a statement on Tuesday against "planned and staged" violence during upcoming Christian holidays.
The party said such "sinful and criminal" violence may harm innocent Egyptians and ruin Christian festivities. The statement also suggested the current government may be implicated in the violence. Referring to Brotherhood supporters, the party urged "revolutionaries" to stay away from churches and parks during Christian holidays -- held on 7 January for Coptic Christians -- so as not to bother them. The dread of potential blasts has risen as a result of the Death Eater attacks which spiked after the July ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... . Initially centred in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, the attacks have recently extended to additional governorates. Egypt witnessed three kabooms over the past week. A bomb rocked the Security Directorate building in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura on last Tuesday, killing 16 people and injuring more than 135. On Sunday, four soldiers were maimed in an kaboom near the Sharqiya Governorate's Military Intelligence Headquarters, while on Thursday a smaller kaboom near a public bus in eastern Cairo's Nasr City injured five people. Also, numerous attacks against churches were reported following the forced dispersal of the two main pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo and Giza on 14 August, which left hundreds dead and thousands injured. | |
| Posted by:Fred |