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“Muslim Brotherhood Taking Out Rage on Christian Churches, Businesses”
by World Tribune   
August 19th, 2013
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The Muslim Brotherhood has targeted Christian communities in its insurgency campaign against Egypt’s military-backed regime.

Christian groups said Islamist fighters, many of whom linked to the Brotherhood, were attacking churches and Christian-owned businesses throughout Egypt.

The Christian groups said the Brotherhood torched at least 40 churches in eight provinces.

“It’s Christians in Egypt who pay the price to overthrow tyranny,” Antoine Adel, spokesman for the Maspero Youth Union, said.

The Interior Ministry has confirmed that Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi were targeting churches. On Aug. 14, the ministry said seven churches were destroyed in the first stage of the Brotherhood campaign.

“Today, the churches of Egypt became like a censor with fire coming out of it mixed with incense raised to the heavens as a sweet aroma so that God may have compassion on his people and perform unprecedented wonders,” the Coptic leader of the Assiyut province, Metropolitan Mikhail, said.

Maspero, which monitors the rights of Egypt’s minority Coptic community, said most of the attacks took place in Alexandria and Minya. The organization said the Brotherhood was trying to exploit friction between the majority Muslim community and Copts.

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