Protesters in Shobra denounce Alexandria’s sectarian attacks that left at least 21 dead.
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Police clash with coptic protesters in Giza; 1 killed
Police violently clashed with Coptic protesters in Omraniya, Wednesday morning, after hundreds demonstrated in front of the Giza Governorate HQ, denouncing the authorities’ halt of a church construction. At least one protester was killed, more than 50 were injured.
A journalist friend present in the scene confirmed there was a number of Muslim protesters who also joined the rioting against the police in solidarity. Moreover, the Coptic protesters chanted “Long live the Cross with the Crescent” – a 1919 revolution slogan that supports national unity against the oppressor.
One of the eyewitnesses, in the Al-Jazeera report below, also said that the Copts made it clear they “had no quarrels with Muslims, only with the government.”
Egypt polarized
Reading about sectarian crimes between Muslims and Christians has become almost a daily routine. And it’s depressing me.
But again it’s a polarized society that is not moving in just one direction. Strikes, protests over social, economic, political issues affecting the poor from the two communities provide the only hope–a hope for unity from below.