In South Egypt, Islamists Take Over a Town

The Muslim Brotherhood continues its murderous assault against Egypt's Copts.  The Brotherhood is behaving like a rabid dog, attacking those weaker than themselves out of their ancient hatred of all things not Muslim.  While this would have taken place eventually, having the army oust Morsi has accelerated the attacks.  And in the meantime, Obama and the rest of the West just stands by or actually supports the Brotherhood.

If the West had any sense of honor or compassion at all it would throw open it's doors to all those persecuted by Muslims everywhere.

FROM AINA.ORG:

In South Egypt, Islamists Take Over a Town

Posted GMT 9-6-2013 7:56:25

DALGA, Egypt (AP) -- The Coptic Orthodox priest would only talk to his visitor after hiding from the watchful eyes of the bearded Muslim outside, who sported a pistol bulging from under his robe.

So Father Yoannis moved behind a wall in the charred skeleton of an ancient monastery to describe how it was torched by Islamists and then looted when they took over this southern Egyptian town following the ouster of the country's president.

"The fire in the monastery burned intermittently for three days. The looting continued for a week. At the end, not a wire or an electric switch is left," Yoannis told The Associated Press. The monastery's 1,600-year-old underground chapel was stripped of ancient icons and the ground was dug up on the belief that a treasure was buried there.

"Even the remains of ancient and revered saints were disturbed and thrown around," he said.

A town of some 120,000 -- including 20,000 Christians -- Dalga has been outside government control since hard-line supporters of the Islamist Mohammed Morsi drove out police and occupied their station on July 3, the day Egypt's military chief removed the president in a popularly supported coup. It was part of a wave of attacks in the southern Minya province that targeted Christians, their homes and businesses.

Since then, the radicals have imposed their grip on Dalga, twice driving off attempts by the army to send in armored personnel carriers by showering them with gunfire.

Their hold points to the power of hard-line Islamists in southern Egypt even after Morsi's removal -- and their determination to defy the military-backed leadership that has replaced him.

With the army and police already fighting a burgeoning militant insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, there are growing signs that a second insurgency could erupt in the south -- particularly in Minya and Assiut provinces, both Islamist strongholds and both home to Egypt's two largest Christian communities.

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