Saturday, April 16, 2011

Acute wounds

15 March 2011, last updated at 10: 24 Tanks parked outside the church in Sol -YOU DON'T have a strong military presence in the narrow streets of the Church of the Sol rebuilding begins in Egypt, the army has begun rebuilding the Church, which had burnt up to the Muslims, sparking a wave of sectarian unrest. Thirteen people in conflict with the prosessoitiin, which will be carried out in accordance with the mass protests earlier this month in Cairo to the Christians. The BBC's Jonathan Head went to visit the community, where the violence began.

Sol village sitting on a Helwan industrial province, about two hours south of Cairo.


It is a small, rural community, farmers and miners; the surrounding land is green and fertile Nile water, but also for the dotted-line brick ovens with chimneys, steel furnaces and cement factories.


One of the street to prevent the use of the armed forces. Two Armoured vehicles stand Sentinel outside. Two hundred metres behind the road block, the soldiers to clear the rubble and charred shell of the building to the other run of the rack.


This is the Shahadin Church, which had burned down, the crowd of Muslim men in the 5 March, following the family feud is the ratio of a Christian man and a Muslim woman.


The two men, the father of the woman prosessoitiin feud with his cousin and his brother, cousin. As victims and perpetrators were all the same family.


The problem, in other words, the villagers had to fulfil its obligations-failure to preserve the family honour to the father by killing his daughter. Such disputes are not unusual, and generally, it is settled case-law of the community.


So why escalate the violence at this time? It seems that no one in the village, but they are all very eager to ensure that the traffic that does not have a deep-rooted problem.

The show of unity

Muslim street pointed to down one out of the mud-brick houses, Taha, who was Muslim and that was a Christian.

Group of Muslim and Christian men and childrenAt the same time, there are Christians, and Muslims maintain the stereotypes of their differences, the Sol village becomes the subject of the

He took me into a Christian home, with additions of neighbouring Jesus Christ adorned the walls.


Both the nine hands of the men held each other and insisted they are similar to the one in the family.


Christians pulled up their sleeves to reveal is their arms crosses the page boundary.


The problems caused by outside provocateurs, they said. Like all other villages they accused the media exaggerating what had happened.


More than anything else they appeared overwhelmed by the negative attention to getting their village was suddenly.

The symbol of the stocks

Yet back in Cairo, one of the young people's Christian doctor, Bassim Shenouga, thinking it has brought a sharp focus on the religious discrimination becomes a problem.


He was more than a thousand Christian Klimaflüchtlinge, who had nine days of the eve of State television offices outside.

Christian protestor outside Cairo state tv buildingChristian Klimaflüchtlinge, who claimed the Muslims attacked the Church charged

"We want the Church to be rebuilt in the same place," he said, "and we want to change the legislation for the construction of the Church, the same for the construction of the mosque."


Other crowd called for those who had burnt up to the court handling the Sol worship the place down. They accused ruling now Egypt, Marshal Mohamad Hussein Tantawy, ignoring their head of the Supreme Council of the army's plight.


"Tantawy, you have blood on your hands, from a Christian point of view", the song was one of the Church.


The demonstrators were angry, feeling of victimhood flame settings up and apparently interest in compromise.

To change the

Yet only one kilometre away, last Friday-Tahrir square was a very different atmosphere.


The relations between the of delivered sermons preaching tolerance to followers. Families wandered in the middle of the street-in stalls selling snacks. Persons in possession of the posters crosses the page boundary and the Islamic crescents entwined. They spoke nostalgically revolution into a fraternal spirit.


The army, which has found itself in the running for the country, Mr. Mubarak after leaving the sudden, wants to resolve quickly the religious problems.


The seal of the Cairo if last deadly occurred, and offered again to put an immediate end to the use of the regions of the Church of Shahadin. It must be kept until its suppliers was cleaning up the site and the soldiers were already beginning on the date of the building.


Sol of women seemed less of a stir than men, there in recent events.


"They should be punished, the girl and the son, and God is not burned down," said Marian Narouz. "We should not retaliate and burn down mosques either, although I am very sad about what they did."


But he was adamant. "The Christian should marry a Muslim," he said. "That would create problems with only."

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