In the village of al-Nazla, Christians and Muslims have lived side-by-side for generations without incident. Today, Christian churches find themselves increasingly targeted by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ousted civilian government.
It’s not coincidental. As religious leaders tried to explain the protests against the Morsi government in the lead-up to the military coup, they regularly claimed that the protesters were overwhelmingly Christian.
Now, with the military in power and massacring Muslim Brotherhood protesters in Cairo, the group’s angry supporters elsewhere in the country are finding the Christian a convenient scapegoat, even though by and large they’re tried to stay out of it.
Such attacks are a win-win for the junta, which can claim Christian backing they didn’t necessarily have to begin with and can also claim to be fighting “terrorist” Islamist protesters as a way of selling its massacres to the international community.
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Many experts strongly suspect that it is government provocateurs behind the attacks, not the Brotherhood.
Anyway, what do the Christians expect, for their leader stood next to Dictator al-Sisi when he announced the coup. And being self-absorbed neutral in a Revolution, surely this means for an absolute that you side with the government.
Just last year the Egyptians Christians were going to church and doing their social life without having any problem, two years ago the Syrian Christians were free as they could be, three years, almost 4 years ago Christians is Libya were free. Now they are killed for no other reasons then their beliefs.
Let us also not forget the Iraqi Christians who paid the price for US occupation. Before the occupation a Christian was a Vice President of the country.