Egypt accuses boys of urinating on Quran

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By NBC News staff and wire reportsCAIRO -- Two Coptic Christian boys in Egypt accused of tearing up a copy of the Quran and urinating on it have been placed in juvenile detention, a lawyer for the children told Reuters on Wednesday.

Residents of Marco village in the province of Beni Suef south of Cairo filed complaints against the two brothers, Mina Nadi, 9, and Nabil Nadi, 10, who were then detained on Tuesday and charged with blasphemy, lawyer Gamal Eid said.NBC News' Richard Engel spoke with former Arab League chief and former Egyptian foreign minister, Amr Moussa, to ask why there has been so much anti-American violence despite U.S. support of the Arab Spring.It is the latest in a series of incidents involving religious insults, including protests last month over a film made in California that mocked the Prophet Muhammad, that have increased tensions between Muslims and Christians in Egypt and around the world.

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