Historien om hvordan en nabokrangel i Egypt mellom en kopter og muslim utvikler seg til en dødelig mobb som går amok, sier noe om potensalet for vold.

Nabokrangelen mellom kopteren Johannes Hosni og muslimen Mahmoud Abdel-Nazeer, endte med at Johannes slo Mahmoud i hodet med en trestokk, slik at denne døde. Artikkelen forteller om den uhyggelige eskaleringen i landsbyen El Ghorayzat etter denne tragedien; hundrevis av muslimer går på plyndringstokt hos kopteren, setter flere hus i brann, og to koptiske brødre, uten tilknytning til offeret eller gjerningsmann, blir brutalt myrdet.

Hiyam Fakhry, enken etter kopteren Camille Taher Abraham, har kommet med gruoppvekkende detaljer om hvordan hennes mann og hans bror ble tatt av dage. Det var broren til avdøde, også kalt Mahmoud, som ledet an:

«Recounting the events of the massacre, Hiyam said that after the Muslims caused violence and destruction in the village, Mahmoud Abdul-Nazeer and nearly all Muslims in the village walked over two miles to their home. They knocked at the door of the family’s multi-story house, and when her husband asked them from their balcony, what they wanted. They answered him «Come down with your brother, we want to slit your throats,» said Hiyam.

Moments later Mahmoud Abdul-Nazeer and the Muslims broke down the door. They first went into the flat of the 55-year-old childless brother Kamel, and slit his throat with a large knife as he sat on his bed watching TV. They injured his wife Wafaa, took her gold bracelets and 50,000 Egyptian pounds in cash.

According to Hiyam, the Muslim mob the ascended to the second floor, where they gave her husband and 18-year-old son, Mina, blows to their heads, before tying her husband’s hands with a rope and dragging him to a room. «Mahmoud Abdul-Nazeer, slit my husband’s throat,» said said Hiyam. «He was about to leave him, believing he was dead, when one of the other perpetrators noticed that Camille was still breathing, and told him to go back and finish him completely off and let his blood spill all over the floor. So he slit Camille’s throat another time».

All the while their 4-year old son Michael was asleep on the bed. He woke up and saw his father lying in his blood and started calling to him and asking him to wake up. «When my child cried, Mahmoud Abdul-Nazeer said ‘get that child and let’s slaughter him over his father’, but I screamed and begged them until they let him off.»

Hiyam recalled that when Abdul-Nazeer told her husband he has to be slaughtered, she asked him why , as he has done nothing wrong. «He answered me, haughtily and mercilessly, saying ‘he has to be slaughtered today, that means he has to be slaughtered today.’”

Den gjenværende koptiske familien, med blant annet 4 av Camille’s og Hiyams barn, har måttet flykte fra landsbyen, fordi de nekter å godta en «forliksordning» der de to kopternes død går «opp i opp» med den døde muslimens død. Kopterne krever at morderne blir stilt for en domstol.
Morderne går fremdeles fri i landsbyen, og det hører med til historien at sønnen til den drepte muslimen forlanger at Hiayms 4 barn også skal slaktes…

http://www.aina.org/news/20111215163322.htm