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Egypt: Report on Increasing Extremist Intolerance to Women, Christians

NYT report: On Beaches, Intolerance Wears a Veil
— also addresses increasing violence against Christians
— “there are sharper signs of intolerance: increasing Christian-Muslim clashes, unfamiliar to old Alexandrine eyes”
— “On April 4, a Muslim man was allegedly stabbed by his Coptic Christian landlords in a dispute over garbage collection, according to a July 30 report by the Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a human rights watchdog. When the man died the next day, Muslims praying at a mosque in the city’s Karmouz district chanted ‘they will die’ and then trashed Christian-owned stores, the report said.”