A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif, 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Cairo. This incident was triggered by a relationship between 40-year-old Copt Ashraf Iskander and a Muslim woman. Yesterday a “reconciliation” meeting was arranged between the relevant Coptic and Muslim families. It was decided that Ashraf Iskander (the Christian) would have to leave the village because Muslims torched his house. The father of the Muslim woman was killed by his cousin because he did not kill his daughter to preserve the family’s honor, which led the woman’s brother (the son of the murdered father) to avenge the death of his father by killing the cousin (his father’s murderer). The village Muslims blamed the Christians (for the murders) . (So the 2 murders that led to this attack took place between family members of the Muslim woman – the 1st an honor killing, the 2nd a revenge killing for the honor killing). A curfew has been imposed on the 12,000 Christians in the village.
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