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Dozens of terrorist crimes, particularly after the revolution, have been committed, like that case of 42-year-old Ayman Anwar Dimitrī whom Salafists assaulted in Qena after they suspected him of having an affair with a woman. The ultra-conservatives have cut off Dimitrī's ear and burned his house down in March.

Also in the same month Muslim extremists have attacked and burned the Church of the Two Martyrs in Sūl village, Atfīh, in an attempt to trigger a state of panic amongst the Coptic residents there.

Also in March, al-Sādāt City has been the scene of a gathering of 400 Salafists in front of the house of a woman in the 4th Area, threatening to set her and her daughter on fire if she did not leave before a set deadline.

The angry Salafists then said they were trying to "clean the residential section of this woman and her likes who do not respect proper behavior".

These incidents were followed by the Imbābah church crisis in April, the al-Mārīnāb church events and the following implications in Maspero and also in October an ancient statue of ancient Egyptian King Zoser I was pulled down from the square of al-Muwāfī in al-Mansūrah city and was later found lying on the ground with a clothes line around the neck of the statue.

Writer Karīmah Kamāl said the officials' failure to apply the law marked the beginning of the Islamists' dominance and open intimidation of innocent citizens, and consequently that were the roots that entrenched religion-based discrimination in the first place.

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