Three Coptic Christian students are presently facing trial for charges relating to mocking Islam in Egypt. The students were videoed in a leaked 30 seconds tape mocking Muslim prayers and their trial is already living up to it's billing as one to test the religious intolerance and tensions between Muslims and Christians in the North African country .

Already the teacher of the students has already been convicted and sentenced to three years behind bars in a separate trial but relating to the same offence. The high school students will be tried on Thursday , according to Lawyer Maher Naguib.

The video was filmed by the convicted teacher and it showed one student kneeling down pretending to be saying Muslim prayers, while the two others were laughing behind him, before one decided to wave his hand under a second's neck to show the beheading sign made popular by Islamic separatists and insurgents.

It has been revealed the video was released in April 2015, after Islamic State Militants in Libya beheaded hundreds of Egyptian Christians . The students have remained indoors for fear of their lives and their teacher evicted from his village.

For a better understanding of the story , Christians make up only about 10% of Egypt's population. Christians have also long cried of discrimination and injustice against them. This partly explains the support Christians gave army chief turned -President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi when he ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, during the period Morsi faced massive protest against his "Anti-People" policies .

With such ugly incident, it will only take a while for Christians and Muslims to live as one in peace in Egypt any time soon .

Source

http://mailtelegraph..com.ng/2016/02/christian-students-charged-for-mocking.html?m=1

His lucky they didn't stone him to death

Demmocrats:
His lucky they didn't stone him to death

he might be sentenced to death or life imprisonment

Trouble dey sleep,yanga qo wake am
mocking other pple's religion in a hostile territory,how silly;(

Stick to the reason you are in Egypt.

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Even is as a christian, I believe that mocking others is way too wrong. They got well served.


What happened to "pray for them" ?