H/T Magic Martin. More info on this if anyone has any please in the comments.
I recall as a child, often kids would be taught character by saying to an antagonist:
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me”.
I suspect children in Egypt, at least the Muslim ones, are taught something quite different.
Egypt’s Morsi denounces cathedral violence, orders probe
CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi condemned deadly clashes on Sunday at the Cairo headquarters of the Coptic Christian pope as “an attack against myself”, ordering a quick probe into the violence, a statement said.
“I consider any attack on the cathedral an attack againt myself,” he said in a statement published by the official MENA news agency. Morsi ordered “an immediate investigation” into the clashes after a funeral for Copts slain in sectarian violence.
( AFP )
Egypt’s Qalioubiya sees more violence in wake of Cairo clashes
Confrontations between Coptic-Christian protesters and police reignite Sunday evening in north Cairo governorate of Al-Khosous, which saw deadly sectarian clashes almost two days before
Clashes erupted on Sunday evening between a group of Coptic-Christian protesters and police forces outside a local church in the city of Al-Khosous in the north Cairo governorate of Qalioubiya.
The same town witnessed sectarian violence in the early hours of Saturday, before violence re-erupted following an attack on Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral in which a funeral for slain Copts was being held.
Violent confrontations broke out again on Sunday evening between a group of Coptic protesters and police, according to Sorial Younan, a priest at Al-Khosous’ Church of Mar Girgis.
The clashes coincided with an attack by unknown assailants on the Coptic cathedral in Cairo’s Abbasiya district during a funeral mass held for five Coptic Christians killed in Friday’s sectarian violence.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/68708/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-Qalioubiya-sees-more-violence-in-wake-of-Ca.aspx
It’s like global warming is heating up the ARab Spring or something.