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8. AWR Daily Overview, December 19, 2011: Copts mourn Shaykh 'Ifat

Mon, 2011-12-19 13:38 — AmR

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2011
Week: 
51
Article number: 
8
Date of source: 
December 19, 2011
Author: 
'Amr al-Misrī
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A number of Coptic movements condemned the "bloody" incidents that took place on al-Qasr al-'Aynī street and mourned the killing of Shaykh 'Imād 'Ifat as young Copts placed a photo of the late cleric instead of photos of killed Coptic activist Mīnā Danyāl and their own on their social networking Facebook pages. [Ahmad Habīb, Al-Hurīyah wal-'Adālah, Dec. 19, p. 3] Read the original text in Arabic

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The Maspero Youth Union called in a statement for stopping bloodshed and urged state officials to deal with citizens as "free people, not slaves," emphasizing rejection of the use of terms like "unidentified culprits" or "third parties" because they became hackneyed. [Ahmad Habīb , Al-Hurīyah wal-'Adālah, Dec. 19, p. 3] Read the original text in Arabic

Meanwhile, Muslim Brotherhood Murshid (Guide) Muhammad Badī' made a phone call Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III to enquire after his health and congratulate him over his return home safe from a treatment trip in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. 

Church sources aid that the St. Mark Cathedral is considering sending invitations to the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, to attend the Christmas celebrations. 

The sources said the "very friendly" phone conversation has not dealt with any political affairs. ['Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Dec. 19, p. 14] Read the original text in Arabic

[Reviewer's Note: A report on the same content was published by Al-Hurīyah wal-'Adālah newspaper, the mouthpiece of the FJP, of December 19, 2011, p. 1]

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