Egypt: Road Building Project a Scheme to Loot Ancient Coptic Monastery

Raymond Ibrahim – March 2015

The world recently saw the Islamic State plunder and destroy monuments of Iraq’s ancient heritage.  Now, elements of the Egyptian government appear to be trying to plunder some of the monuments of Egypt’s ancient Christian heritage.   An update on why Coptic monks recently prostrated their bodies before bulldozers manned by “Allahu Akbar” screaming Muslim employees of the Egyptian state from MCN:

The area where the monastery of St. Macarius of Alexandria is located has many monuments, which is why Reserves Authority employees and Roads and Bridges Authority staff insist on building a highway that would split the monastery into two halves, so they can loot these monuments, said Monk Athanasios of the monastery of St. Macarius of Alexandria in Wadi al-Rayan, Fayoum (Egypt).

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