Coptic priest: Islamic insurgents believed to be cause of deadly attack, A Coptic priest that was shot and killed this week in Egypt is causing an international controversy.Yahoo! News reported this Friday, July 6, that what is believed to be Islamist insurgents murdered a Coptic Christian priest in Northern Sinai last weekend. If true, this would mark the first sectarian offensive since the military overhaul of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
The Coptic priest that was killed by the extremists was Mina Aboud Sharween. He was allegedly attacked and murdered while going for a walk in El Arish due to his religious beliefs and the "faith he stood for."
This most recent shooting has been one of a few latent attacks by what officials think to be Islamist insurgents, several of these uprisings being part of deadly firings at military checkpoints in the local area, added the source.
The killing of the Coptic priest may have been as a result of the Muslim Brotherhood of Mursi’s recent condemnations of Coptic Pope Tawadros. Tawadros acts as the spiritual leader of over 8 million Christians that live in Egypt; he has been criticized for blessing “the removal of the president and attending the announcement by armed forces commander General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in suspending the constitution.
The murder of the Coptic Christian has sparked even further tension in Egypt.
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