Egyptian Christians have woken up today with a new shock after knowing that a limpet bomb attached to a religious car would have exploded this morning without causing any casualties in the monastery of Deir El Suryani (the Syrians), Wadi Natron, about 180 kilometers west of Cairo. Police have denied that the case of a pump and only recognizes that damage has occurred in a car parked in the garage of the religious center, and in the door.An explosion ripped the door to the parking lot and caused a fire in the place where the vehicle was Mateus father, the abbot of the monastery, according to the monastery to confirm that officers are still investigating what happened in Deir El Suryani. The EFE news agency reported, citing a security source, that it would be an explosive placed in the car of the religious.
The security forces in the province of Al Behira and explosives experts moved to the scene to investigate the incident as it emerged that there was a fire in the monastery. The agents were able to corroborate many damage inside the garage, the vehicle and the convent but was not immediately clear who might be behind the incident that took place in a landmark of Egyptian Christianity.
In the fourth century, because the region was very remote from the cities, the monks decided to withdraw to Wadi Natron where they built more than fifty monasteries that remain are four pilgrimage center and retreat for many faithful Egyptians and other countries. This incident comes just two weeks after an attack on a church in Alexandria left 23 dead and more than ninety injured and that this week a Muslim policeman outside a train went into service while stationed in the southern city of Samalut in governorate of Minya, 260 kilometers south of Cairo, killing a 71 year old man and injured five others four women and one man, all Christians.
Tempers have been frayed after these two events and there is no church without security guards controlling access to them. Cairo also has seen the checks and police presence in major city roads multiplied in anticipation of demonstrations or acts of repudiation of these attacks against the Egyptian Christian community is only 10 percent of Egypt's population a country of 80 million people, mostly Muslim.
The clashes between the two communities are common and many Egyptians fear that the radicalization of these can lead to the destabilization of the country. Egypt has seen in recent months, a period of tension after a parliamentary election marked by allegations of rigging and in which the opposition was swept by the ruling National Democratic Party of Hosni Mubarak.
The Coptic community has little representation in the House and has suggested the need for a quota of representation to Christians. A year ago, during the celebration of Christmas Coptic Orthodox a shooting left six dead. The alleged assailants are still awaiting trial. The attack on New Year's Eve in Alexandria returned to break the spirits of the Egyptians who in recent days have staged peaceful demonstrations in which Muslim and Christian religious advocate mutual respect and whose symbol are banners that you see the crescent of Islam united the Christian cross.
During the Coptic Orthodox Christmas was held on six and seven of January, access to churches was restricted for safety and could only be done with an identity card (which records the religious profession.) Unable to access the Muslim community chose to conduct a vigil in which they read the Koran and the Bible.
These events were also clashes between those who wanted to turn the meeting into a demonstration against the government.
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