World: Sectarian violence: Muslims, Coptic Christians fight in Egypt
- 9+ number of people killed in fighting between Muslims and Coptic Christians near Cairo
- 90+ more were injured in clashes stemming from the burning of a church last week source
- » A conflict on the back-burner: The tensions between the minority Copts (who make up 9 percent of Egypt’s population) and Muslims (who make up 90 percent) have already been pretty high this year after an extremely deadly suicide bombing in January. The mess with Mubarak took the attention away for the while, but now it’s back. The Christian Science Monitor has a pretty good explanation of what’s happening right now.