It would be unfair and inaccurate to say that Egypt's Muslim-Christian problems started with the January 2011 revolution. After all, Coptic Christian churches in Egypt were hit in two separate deadly attacks in the final 14 months of Hosni Mubarak's reign. One of them — a church bombing in Alexandria that killed 23 — came just two months before the Egyptian revolution began. And in November 2010, Coptic youth battled security forces for days in Giza in a dispute over the acrimonious issue of government restrictions on church building permits. In short, Egypt's sectarian ice had been dangerously thin for years. But this weekend's sudden spasm of Muslim-Christian violence opened up new cracks: there's the very real possibility now of open conflict between Egypt's fledgling Islamist rulers and the Coptic Orthodox Church itself. The present moment represents yet another serious challenge to a country already paralyzed by political turmoil and caught in a worsening economic spiral. Two years after the euphoria of Mubarak's people-power ouster, the revolutionary glow has decidedly dimmed. (PHOTOS: Egyptian Copts Mourn and Riot in Cairo) The violence began April 5 in the village of Khosous, just north of Cairo, when an apparent dispute over youths spraying graffiti on a building escalated into an armed clash that left four Christians and one Muslim dead. Two days later, on Sunday, April 7, the funeral for those dead Christian citizens became engulfed in violence as angry Christian mourners apparently clashed with unidentified attackers. Police responded late and haphazardly with several tear-gas canisters landing inside the grounds of St. Mark's Cathedral in central Cairo, terrifying the Christians seeking refuge inside and leading many to claim that the police were joining in the siege of the cathedral. On Tuesday, Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II took to the public airwaves with an unvarnished and unprecedented attack on President Mohamed Morsi's government, starkly warning: "This is a society that is collapsing." In a phone interview with ONTV, one of the country's most popular and influential satellite news channels, the 60-year-old Pontiff harshly criticized the(http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&blog=19871253&post=80793&subd=timeglobalspin&ref=&feed=1)
Via: TIME GlobalSpin
We just need to quit anything violence at this stage in whatever country of this world. It makes no headway for countries that engage in it