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Was it a hate crime? Were Muslims trying to silence the freedom of speech of Egyptian Christians in the United States? Unsolved mystery:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144573,00.html
Family, Friends Mourn Slain N.J. Family
Monday, January 17, 2005
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A funeral procession for two parents and their two daughters found brutally slain in their home last week drew hundreds of mourners Monday and some in the crowd blamed the deaths on simmering religious tensions in the family's native Egypt.
Services for 47-year-old Hossam Armanious, his 37-year-old wife, Amal Garas, and their two daughters (ages 16 and 8 years) were being held at the St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church, a Christian congregation where the family was active.
...The family immigrated to the United States in 1997 from Egypt, where Coptic Christians generally live in peace with Muslims. But tensions between the religions there have flared and become violent in recent years.
After revelations over the weekend that Hossam Armanious was active on an Internet chat site devoted to Coptic Christianity, Monir Dowoud, president of the American Coptic Association, told 200 people outside the family's church on Sunday that "Muslim terrorists" were responsible.
...friends of the slain family said Hossam Armanious received death threats two months ago after writing what were perceived as insults to Islam.
Police have said that there were no signs of forced entry at the home, where the four bodies were found bound and gagged early Friday. ..
...Autopsies showed the victims bled to death from puncture wounds to their heads, necks and bodies.
Copts generally live in peace with Muslims, but it is a sometimes uneasy relationship in which sectarian tensions can erupt. In 2000, the deadliest Christian-Muslim clashes in years killed 23 people...
Last month, thousands of angry Copts protested for days at a Cairo cathedral when rumors circulated that a Coptic Christian woman had been forced to convert to Islam. Days of protests and stone-throwing at the cathedral in Abbasiya, Cairo, left two dozen police injured and 34 Copts detained.
In 2002, brawls broke out in a southern Egyptian village after an argument over whether a Coptic church's bells tolled too loudly. During an Islamic insurrection in Egypt in the early 1990s, Copts were occasionally attacked by Muslim militants.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144573,00.html
Family, Friends Mourn Slain N.J. Family
Monday, January 17, 2005
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A funeral procession for two parents and their two daughters found brutally slain in their home last week drew hundreds of mourners Monday and some in the crowd blamed the deaths on simmering religious tensions in the family's native Egypt.
Services for 47-year-old Hossam Armanious, his 37-year-old wife, Amal Garas, and their two daughters (ages 16 and 8 years) were being held at the St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church, a Christian congregation where the family was active.
...The family immigrated to the United States in 1997 from Egypt, where Coptic Christians generally live in peace with Muslims. But tensions between the religions there have flared and become violent in recent years.
After revelations over the weekend that Hossam Armanious was active on an Internet chat site devoted to Coptic Christianity, Monir Dowoud, president of the American Coptic Association, told 200 people outside the family's church on Sunday that "Muslim terrorists" were responsible.
...friends of the slain family said Hossam Armanious received death threats two months ago after writing what were perceived as insults to Islam.
Police have said that there were no signs of forced entry at the home, where the four bodies were found bound and gagged early Friday. ..
...Autopsies showed the victims bled to death from puncture wounds to their heads, necks and bodies.
Copts generally live in peace with Muslims, but it is a sometimes uneasy relationship in which sectarian tensions can erupt. In 2000, the deadliest Christian-Muslim clashes in years killed 23 people...
Last month, thousands of angry Copts protested for days at a Cairo cathedral when rumors circulated that a Coptic Christian woman had been forced to convert to Islam. Days of protests and stone-throwing at the cathedral in Abbasiya, Cairo, left two dozen police injured and 34 Copts detained.
In 2002, brawls broke out in a southern Egyptian village after an argument over whether a Coptic church's bells tolled too loudly. During an Islamic insurrection in Egypt in the early 1990s, Copts were occasionally attacked by Muslim militants.
