The next day, around 300 Muslim men set fire to and looted their
house in the southern province of Minya and stripped the mother naked
out on the street.
Egypt Muslims attack Christian woman, houses after affair rumour(The News)
Hundreds of Muslims have set fire to homes of Christians in southern Egypt
and stripped a 70-year-old woman naked after rumours her Christian son
had an affair with a Muslim woman, the local church and witnesses said.
The
Christian man fled with his wife and children on May 19, said Ishak
Ibrahim at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. His parents went
to the police, fearing for their lives.
The next
day, around 300 Muslim men set fire to and looted their house in the
southern province of Minya and stripped the mother naked out on the
street. They also set fire to and looted six other houses, eyewitnesses
told Reuters.
"They burned the house and went in
and dragged me out, threw me in front of the house and ripped my
clothes. I was just as my mother gave birth to me and was screaming and
crying," the woman, who requested anonymity, told Reuters.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
condemned the attack in a statement on Thursday and ordered authorities
to bring those behind it to justice. He also ordered local authorities
and the military to rebuild all damaged properties within a month at
state expense.
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II
called for calm and restraint in a statement on Thursday. He said he
was pursuing the matter with Egyptian officials and that he had spoken
to the woman and all those whose homes were attacked.
The woman accuses three Muslim men of stripping her and dragging her in front of her house, her lawyer Ehab Ramzi told Reuters.
Security
sources said police arrested five men in connection with the incident
and the public prosecutor had ordered their detention and the arrest of
18 others.
Ten members of parliament put forward a motion to cross-examine Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar over the incident.
Orthodox
Copts, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's 90 million people, are
the Middle East's biggest Christian community. They have long complained
of discrimination under successive Egyptian leaders.
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