Muslims Attack Two Christian Families in Egypt, 11 Killed

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Posted GMT 2-3-2011 2:57:58

(AINA) — News of a massacre of two Christian Coptic families by Islamists just emerged from Upper Egypt with the return of the Internet connections after a week of Internet blackout by the Egyptian regime. The massacre took place on Sunday, January 30 at 3 PM in the village of Sharona near Maghagha, Minya province. Two Islamists groups, aided by the Muslim neighbors, descended on the roof of houses owned by Copts, killing eleven Copts, including children, and seriously injuring four others.

Anba Agathon, Bishop of Maghagha, told Coptic activist Dr. Mona Roman in a televised interview on Al-Karma TV that the killers are their neighbors, who seized the opportunity of the mayhem prevailing in Egypt and the absence of police protection to slaughter the Copts. He said that he visited today the four injured Copts, who escaped death despite being shot, at Maghagha General Hospital and they told him that they recognized the main attackers as they come from the same village of Sharona. They gave the Bishop details of what happened.

“The two families were staying in their homes with their doors locked when suddenly the Islamists descended on them,” said Bishop Agathon, “killing eleven and leaving for dead four other family members. In addition, they looted everything that was in the two Coptic houses, including money, furniture and electrical equipment. They also looted livestock and grain.”

According to the Bishop the first group was led by Islamist Ibrahim Hamdy Ibrahim, who was joined by a gang of masked assailants. They accessed the roof of the house of Copt Joseph Waheeb Massoud through the roof of his Muslim neighbor Mahgoub el Khawaled. The armed men killed Joseph, his wife Samah, his 15-year old daughter Christine and 8-year-old son Fady Youssef

Another Islamist group led by Yasser Essam Khaled and several masked men simultaneously accessed the house of Copt Saleeb Ayad Mayez through the roof of his Muslim neighbor Mohamad Hussein el Khawaed. The Islamist shot dead Saleeb, his wife Zakia, his 4-year-old son Joseph, 3-year-old daughter Justina, his 23-year-old sister Amgad, mother Zakia and Ms. Saniora Fahim.

The police in Minya were called and they transferred the bodies in ambulances to Maghagha Hospital.

The Bishop denied any vendetta between the Copts and the Muslims. He called on the police to arrest the Islamist perpetrators immediately, as everyone knows they are the neighbors of the victims. He said “The massacre has nothing to do with the mayhem in Egypt, but the murderers took advantage of the lack of police protection and thought they could commit their crime and no one would notice.”

Coptic activist Dr. Hanna Hanna views the Mubarak era with its policy of impunity to be the cause of why Copts are targeted. “Why have those Islamists chosen those two Coptic families and not Muslim ones to slaughter and rob? I believe it is because they know that with Copts they can literally get away with murder.”

By Mary Abdelmassih

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4 Replies to “Muslims Attack Two Christian Families in Egypt, 11 Killed”

  1. Anderson Cooper of the CNN and others trying so dramatically describe to us this truly democratic movement in Egypt somehow missed this one.

  2. If we aren’t careful this will be coming to towns and neighborhoods near all of us in the future.

  3. This is just one more horrific incident in the pogrom being perpetrated against all non Muslims in the ME , especially the Coptic Christians due to the fact that are the largest group. The Muslim Brootherhood and their fanatical Islamofascist thugs are working hard on all fronts to destabilize Egypt and the entire ME. These demonstrations are not spontaneous but well planed and orchestrated to get maximum exposure in the MSM.

  4. You got that right Big Frank the Moslem Brotherhood is making its move to rebuild the Caliphate, and are doing it while Obama is in office so the US won’t interfere, just as once they control Egypt and maybe Jordan they will hit Israel. They have to do all they can while Obama is in office damaging the US, after he is out of office they want to be in firm control of all Islamic nations.