A
bombing at a chapel adjacent to Egypt’s main Coptic Christian cathedral
killed 25 people and wounded another 49 during Sunday Mass, one of the
deadliest attacks carried out against the religious minority in recent
memory and a grim reminder of Egypt’s difficult struggle to restore
security and stability after nearly six years of turmoil.
The
attack came two days after a bomb elsewhere in Cairo killed six
policemen, an assault claimed by a shadowy group that authorities say is
linked to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. That group — called “Hasm,”
or “Decisiveness” — and others suspected of links to the Brotherhood,
have chiefly targeted members of the armed forces and police as well as
judges, prosecutors and security officials. This, at least in theory,
leaves the extremist Islamic State group as the chief suspect.
There
was no immediate claim of responsibility for Sunday’s attack. However,
Islamic militants have targeted Christians in the past, including a New
Year’s Day bombing at a church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria
in 2011 that killed at least 21 people.
More
recently, churches and Christian property in southern Egypt have been
targeted in the weeks and months that followed the military’s 2013
ouster of an Islamist president. Those were blamed on Brotherhood
supporters and ultraorthodox Salafi Muslims. The Islamic State has
targeted Christians in the Sinai Peninsula, where it primarily wages
attacks against security forces. (AP)
1 comment:
And we have enough of these Muslim Jihads that are 90% probable to do this 300 times over in every large city in America right now. Looks like America needs to either consider having open season with no bag limit or start pig farms every square mile on American soil! And to hell with offending the foreign invaders! I say we go out of our way to offend them right out of America! This is war weather declared or not! A war that involves the stupidity and ignorance of an entire brainwashed race of people against the rest of the world!
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