Morsi Supporters Vow Jihad and to Burn Christians - A Coptic Priest Shot Dead

Attack could mark first sectarian attack since ouster of elected Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

Jerusalem Post - CAIRO- Gunmen shot dead a Coptic Christian priest in Egypt's lawless Northern Sinai on Saturday in what could be the first sectarian attack since the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, security sources said.

At least 30 people died and more than 1,000 were wounded after Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement called "Friday of Rejection" protests across the country and tried to march on the military compound where the ousted president is held.   Read More

Morsi Supporters Vow Jihad and to Burn Christians

The Clarion Project - The July 3 overthrow of Egyptian President Morsi by the military, spurred into action by mind-bogglingly large protests demanding that it step in, is being met with calls to jihad. Islamists at a pro-Morsi rally on July 4 were videotaped pledging to kill their political opponents and to set Christians “on fire.”

The first speaker in the news clip states that the pro-Morsi crowd will die fighting. He shouts, “I want to say to [Defense Minister] al-Sisi: Beware! Know that you have created a new Taliban and a new Al-Qaeda in Egypt.”

He explicitly states that he and his colleagues will become suicide bombers and that they’ll target all of their enemies. He tells al-Sisi that he “wrote the death sentence of all the members of Tamarod [the opposition]” and “of anyone who opposed President Morsi and opposed the legitimacy of the ballot box.”   Read More