Clashes between Muslims and Christian in the Egyptian capital killed at least six people

[JanDutchy]

Source: AP

CAIRO (AP) — Clashes between Muslims and Christian in the Egyptian capital killed at least six people, security and hospital officials said Wednesday.

They said the clashes took place late Tuesday night and lasted several hours. The fighting involved the use of guns, clubs and knifes, they added. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The clashes began when several thousand Christians protested against the burning last week of a church in a Cairo suburb by a Muslim mob following a deadly clash between Muslims and Christians over a love affair between a Muslim and a Christian.





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"over a love affair between a Muslim and a Christian"

I know the times that the same kind of clashes - between a roman-catholic and a protestant lover - (with or without GLBT-fealings)leads to murdering, death, suïcide and excile from the group.

[Bosonic]

1. aljazeera's take

Different source (same story)

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/201138211326148908.html

Copts, Muslims clash in Cairo

At least six persons killed as Egyptian Christians, protesting the torching of a church, clash with Muslims in capital. At least six Coptic Christians have been killed and 57 others injured in religious clashes with Muslims in the Egyptian capital Cairo, a hospital official has told Al Jazeera. An official death toll has yet to be released by the country's ministry of interior...

[Shadowflash]

2. Nice,

People killing other people over who's bronze-age fairy tale is better.

John Lennon was right.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Doubleplusungood

eom

[Igel]

4. Which was the female and which was the male matters.

The fact that the Xian community was first punished almost entails that the Muslim was the female, submitting to a Christian male. That means the greater was submitting to the lesser, an inversion of how things *must* be in a well-ordered society and bestowing humiliation upon her community.

(No, most stories didn't add this bit of information. I had to find more detailed stories that did.)

Had the guy been the Muslim, any complaints by Christians would have been simple calumny. Or the girl would have been forced to marry him, regardless of what the Christian parents said.

Communalism. Too bad it's so common. And too bad that the Western media is either blind or squeamish when it comes to reporting it as such.

[Codeine]

5. Expect more of this as the reactionary religious groups

consolidate power in the wake of the revolution.

[johnroshan]

6. This is far more complicated than just religion...

This is more like a socio-behavioral aspect of a medieval society. You can see this in Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Zoroastrian or any other religion you can find in this world. I've even seen neighboring villages in India going to fight because some guy from a village has a love affair with a girl from the other village.

I think its basic hatred for the outgroup. You consider your group to be superior than the other so mixing with the lower group is considered humiliating to the whole group. Individual rights have no place in a social arena when your actions threaten the standing of the group.