The murder of four Egyptian Shiites, among them Sheikh Hassan Shehata, once again exposed the fate of Egypt’s Shiites, the discrimination and maltreatment that they suffer from, particularly after the January 25 Revolution.
Source/Credit: As-Safir / Al Monitor
By Ahmad Abdlefattah | June 25, 2013
Many are distancing themselves from Zawyat Abu Musalam and the events that occurred there Sunday [June 23]. They are washing their hands of the massacre that led to the deaths of four people, among them an Al-Azhar-trained cleric. They are viewing it as a transient event: condemning the perpetrators, yet, as the same time, insulting the victims. Few of them possess the audacity to disclose the identity of those responsible for this criminal turning point in Egypt’s modern history.
Zawyat Abu Musalam is no longer a mere village in Giza. It has become a tangible manifestation of the growing hysteria meant to curb the Egyptian people’s desire for a democratic pluralistic society, where all can enjoy unrestricted personal freedoms, at the core of which lies the freedom of religious belief.
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