{"id":38537,"date":"2016-08-16T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T11:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=38537"},"modified":"2016-08-16T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T11:43:30","slug":"%d8%a5%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%85-%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%ac%d8%af-%d9%83%d9%88%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d9%88%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a5%d8%ad%d9%86%d8%a7-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a9-%d9%88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a5%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%85-%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%ac%d8%af-%d9%83%d9%88%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d9%88%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a5%d8%ad%d9%86%d8%a7-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a9-%d9%88\/","title":{"rendered":"“Kom Al-lofi” Mosque Imam: we are a Muslim country and Copts are a minority and we will not allow them to build a church"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Al-Ahram newspaper interviewed a number of Copts in Minya and officials of the villages, which has recently witnessed\u00a0many sectarian incidents, stressing that the repetition of these crises because\u00a0of the church building\u00a0is\u00a0a warning to the state that relieving the problems and\u00a0friendly solutions is very\u00a0dangerous to the community cohesion.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The newspaper met with Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Ali, \u00a0reciter of the village of Kom Al-lofi, pointing out that he was smoking a hookah, accompanied by Sheikh Abdel-Gawad, the mosque’s imam and the two are\u00a0Al-Azhar graduates and work at the Ministry of Awqaf, who said that there was no sectarian strife in the village but what has happened is a rumor of building a church that made the young motivated because they reject building a church .<\/span><\/h2>\n

He added that Copts proportion of the village is\u00a0approximately 7.3% of the population, and their number doesn’t\u00a0allow\u00a0them\u00a0to build a church, stressing we lived in peace until the story of the church building began and the fraught\u00a0of young people led them to\u00a0smash security vehicles.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Sheikh Abdel Gawad Sami, imam of the mosque added, \u00a0the materials used are not specified to build\u00a0a house, the iron\u00a0used is measuring 5 mmm and the column\u00a0consist of\u00a012 skewer\u00a0instead of 8, and it is not allowed that a\u00a0minority in a village that have a Muslim majority build a\u00a0church”<\/span><\/h2>\n

He added that the village has\u00a0ten imams of 9 mosques and they teach\u00a0moderation, , and the\u00a0majority of them are\u00a0Al-Azhar graduates and a minority of “Jemaah Islamiyah” and the sermon is unified.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The edito wondered, do you see that 500 people have no right for a worship house? Sheikh replied, this is not an equation we are a Muslim country if the church\u00a0was already built we will not prevent prayers,\u00a0why building the church now we need to reunite and avoid sedition and this is a sedition caused by the media, and people outside the village are\u00a0building the\u00a0church, wondering: They\u00a0are a minority and this is not actually an affront to say that, It is better\u00a0for a\u00a0 man to live in safe and comfort place reassured on\u00a0his money and his land you don’t need to do something that ruin your life! “<\/span><\/h2>\n

She asked, do you think as you’re the main mosque Imaa What Sings the Muslim majority when a church is built in the\u00a0village that contain\u00a0ten mosques as you said? he\u00a0answered ” it is not allowed\u00a0, because our religion is against building this we are in\u00a0a\u00a0Muslim country. It is also not allowed according to\u00a0the police since the eighties to build a church. We say that we have laws so you must enforce it, more than 30 persons from the village filed a complain that there is a church built in the village\u00a0\u00a0and no one responded to us and The police said that it will be demolished, but nothing happened the owner of the place is our neighbor and we provided\u00a0him with work and livelihoods, but it seems that there are those who play with his mind and convinced him to build a church. “<\/span><\/h2>\n

He added, we offered them Magistrate and every one who damaged anything will repair it but\u00a0they refused because there are people\u00a0outside the town that incite these vulnerable poor people and if they didn’t intended to build a church, why they refuse Magistrate?<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Al-Ahram newspaper interviewed a number of Copts in Minya and officials of the villages, which has recently witnessed\u00a0many sectarian incidents, stressing that the repetition of these crises because\u00a0of the church building\u00a0is\u00a0a warning to the state that relieving the problems and\u00a0friendly solutions is very\u00a0dangerous to the community cohesion. The newspaper met with Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Ali, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[4273,3638,3635,6028,6031,6029,6030,6032,6024,132,6027,6025,6026,5655,5511],"class_list":["post-38537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-build","tag-church","tag-copts","tag-kom-al-lofi","tag-minority","tag-mosque-imam","tag-muslim-country","tag-not-allow","tag-6024","tag-132","tag-6027","tag-6025","tag-6026","tag-5655","tag-5511"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38539,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38537\/revisions\/38539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}