Thursday, January 13, 2011

Egyptian Muslims Serve As Human Shields to Protect Coptic Christians

By Yasmine El-Rashidi
Ahram.org
January 7, 2011

Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community

Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word last Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside.

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