From Basim: "In the four days since security forces cleared two
sit-in camps by supporters of Egypt's ousted president, Islamists have attacked
dozens of Coptic churches along with homes and businesses owned by the Christian
minority. Nearly 40 churches have been looted and torched, while 23 others have
been attacked and heavily damaged since Wednesday ... Christian activist, Ezzat
Ibrahim of Minya, a province also south of Cairo where Christians make up around
35 percent of the population, said police have melted away from seven of the
region's nine districts, leaving the extremists to act with near impunity."
So the police and army confront Islamists at all other
times and in all parts of the country, but when they attack churches they "melt
away?""
