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In the recent Muslim-Christian riots, some see pro-Mubarak forces trying to derail the revolution, while others see the hand of creeping Islamic fundamentalism. Either way, it's a reminder that Egypt's problems aren't going away by themselves.
19-year-old Rojeh Reda says he hasn't slept much the past five days. Cairo University literature student and Shakespeare buff says he and his two friends have made it their mission to patrol and monitor the streets of his neighborhood, Imbaba, a poor working-class district in Cairo.
Over the weekend, fighting in Imbaba between hundreds of Muslims and Christians left at least 12 people dead, more than 200 wounded and two churches in flames, in the latest outbreak of sectarian violence since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February. Reda stops at the Church of the Virgin Mary, most of its interior still covered in soot, and leafs through a charred hymnal. "Yes, we say Muslims and Christians are one hand," says Reda, a Coptic Christian, citing a common chant from Egypt's democratic uprisings. "But there are big problems here and no one likes talking about them until this happens." Copts, a Christian sect who consider themselves indigenous Egyptians (in their language, copt literally means "people of Egypt") make up roughly 10 percent of the majority Sunni Muslim country.
Read more: Who's Behind Egypt's Sectarian Violence? - TIME (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2071071,00.html)