Posted on 12/31/2010 7:29:17 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
CAIRO (AP) - A car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early Saturday, killing at least seven people, officials said. After the blast, enraged Christians emerging from the church clashed with police and stormed a nearby mosque, prompting fights and volleys of stone throwing with Muslims, police and witnesses said—a sign of the sectarian anger that has been arising with greater frequency in Egypt.
Nearly 1,000 Christians were attending the Mass at the Saints Church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, said a priest at the church, Father Mena Adel. The service had just ended, and worshippers were leaving the building when the blast went off, about a half-hour after midnight.
"I was inside the church and heard a huge explosion," Adel told The Associated Press. "People's bodies were in flames."
The blast came from a car parked outside the church, but police said they were still investigating whether the car had been rigged with explosives or if a bomb had been placed under it. Witnesses reported seeing the charred chassis of the destroyed car, with the remains of several bodies nearby and dozens wounded.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that seven people were killed and 24 wounded. Alexandria's governor, Adel Labib, put the death toll as high as 10.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. Labib immediately blamed al-Qaida, pointing to recent threats by the terror group's branch in Iraq to attack Christians. It was not clear, however, if Labib had firm evidence, and he may have intended more to deny any homegrown Muslim-Christian tensions in Egypt.
"The al-Qaida organization threatened to attack churches inside Egypt. This has nothing to do with sectarianism," he told TV.
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It sounds like the muzzies must have been “offended” again.
The same has been going on in Iraq too, only about half of their original 800,000 Christians are left.
Impossible all my college professors tell me Islam is a peaceful religion which not only tollerates but embraces other Abraamic Faiths.
Aren't you stereotyping (profiling) by just automatically assuming it was muzzies?
George Bush would say that was the religion of peace but has been hijacked by a few extremist. That is what he use to say, but he is wrong, they are what they are.
may God damn Islam
I mean that
utterly and totally REFORM , in every way
or disappear from the fabric of humanity forever
But I guess it could have been those pesky Amish again.
“If Muslims were being gunned down and bombed in western mosques by Christian fanatics, there would rightly be a tremendous outcry”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/12/if-muslims-were-being-gunned-down-and-bombed-in-western-mosques-by-christian-fanatics-there-would-ri.html
I just can’t figure out who’s doing all the bombings.....It must be Bush!
Gov’t can’t/won’t protect you, Church. Wake up, Friars.
Those Coptic Christian are admirable in taking their fight to the muzzies! They are not intimdated into letting the muzzies have their way, like the Europeans do.
Ha. You forgot this: /s
Defund PBS.
Religion of peace.
Considering as they were there before the Muslims....
In Egypt as well? Damned Amish can strike anywhere.
He already has.
It doesn’t take a Mensa Society member to guess who did this.
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