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Kam gestern Morgen kurz die Befürchtung auf, dass suedwatch.de demnächst arbeitslos wird [1], weil die übliche Berichterstattung der SZ - noch dazu an einem Wochenende - plötzlich eine Wandlung zu wahrem, sauber recherchiertem, umfassend informierendem und couragiertem Journalismus zu erfahren schien, war die Welt am Abend wieder in Ordnung. Da veröffentlichte man einen Artikel über Proteste von Kopten in Ägypten, die mit vielen Verletzten und Toten endeten [2]:

Mann muss - ja sollte - nicht kritiklos und ohne Überprüfung der Aussagen an den Lippen von Wikipedia hängen, aber eine gute Ausgangsbasis zu eigener Recherche und einen annähernden Überblick zu einem Thema liefert die Online-Enzyklopädie allemal. Vor allem auch, wenn man zusätzlich zur deutschen, die englischsprachige Ausgabe nutzt. Das kann man auch tun, wenn man etwas zu den Problemen der Kopten in Ägypten erfahren will:

Deutsch = “Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Kopten und Muslimen”

Englisch = “Persecution of Copts” (eigener Hauptartikel) und daraus “Sectarian attacks since 1970“

Ausschnitt aus “Sectarian attacks since 1970″ bezogen auf 2011:

“1 January 2011 (On New Year’s eve)

Main article: 2011 Alexandria bombing
A car bomb exploded in front of an Alexandria Coptic Orthodox Church killing at least 21 and injuring at least 79. The incident happened a few minutes after midnight as Christians were leaving a New Year’s eve Church service. It has been later thought that the previous corrupt minister of interior was behind the attacks in an attempt to cause strife between the Egyptian people.[35][36][37]

11 January 2011
A mentally deranged member of the police force opened fire in a train in Samalout station in Minya province resulting in the death of a 71-year old man and injury of 5 others.[38]

5 March 2011
A church was set on fire in Sole, Egypt by a group of Muslim men angry that a Muslim woman was romantically involved with a Christian man. Many Christian residents of Sole fled the village, with the remainder “living in fear”. Large groups of Copts then proceeded to hold major protests stopping traffic for hours in vital areas of Cairo.[26][39]

April 2011
After the death of two Muslims on April 18, sectarian violence broke out in the southern Egyptian town of Abu Qurqas El Balad, in Minya Governorate, 260 KM south of Cairo.One Christian Copt was killed, an old woman was thrown out of her second floor balcony and ten Copts were hospitalized. Coptic homes, shops, businesses, fields and livestock were plundered and torched. Minyaa is well known for its ancient customs of tribal loyalty - if a member of a clan kills someone from another clan or family, the victim’s family feel obliged to avenge their relative’s death.
The government has been trying to prevent such tribal behaviour. Rumors spread throughout Abu Qurqas of many strangers and of trucks loaded with weapons coming into the village to carry out the threats during the Easter week. The terrorized Christian villagers sent pleas everywhere, asking for protection, even to Coptic groups in Europe and the U.S.[40]

7 May 2011
A dispute started over claims that several women who converted to Islam had been abducted by the church and was being held against her will in St. Mary Church of Imbaba, Giza, ended in violent clashes that left 15 dead, among whom were Muslims and Christians, and roughly 55 injured. Eyewitnesses confirmed the church was burnt by thugs [not Salafis] who are not from the neighborhood, as confirmed by the committee of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR). Copts converting to Islam are usually advised by the police to take out restraining orders against their families as the Coptic community does not tolerate converts to Islam. These incidents have fueled strife and problems between Copts and Muslims as in the famous case of Camelia.[41]

May 2011
Copts in Maspero, Cairo are attacked during protests one dies. Certain churches start distributing flyers allegedly written by Islamists. It is later found that some Copts were distributing the flyers to damage the image of Islamists in local media. The Church later apologized.

18 May 2011
The Coptic Church obtained a permission in January to turn a garment factory bought by the church in 2006, into a church in the neighbourhood of Ain Shams of Cairo. However, angry Muslim mobs attacked the church and scores of Copts and Muslims were arrested for the disturbance. On Sunday May 29, an Egyptian Military Court sentenced two Coptic Christians to five years in jail each for violence and for trying to turn a factory into an unlicensed church.[42]“

Und jetzt kommen wir zurück zur Süddeutschen. Wer richtig gründlich des- oder wenigstens nicht informiert werden will, der liest die SZ zum Thema:

(Hervorhebungen Moritatensaenger)

Das Hauptproblem der Kopten in Ägypten also, zusammengefasst in einer messerscharfen journalistischen Analyse von “(dpa,dapd,cag,woja)”:

“Sie werden bei der Erteilung von Baugenehmigungen für Kirchen diskriminiert.”

Da ist sie wieder, unsere gute alte Süddeutsche: Wahr, sauber recherchierend, umfassend informierend, journalistisch couragiert. Weshalb sie mit Fug und Recht erklärt:

Und vergessen Sie die Kopten.

Mit tönendem Gruß

Ihr Peter Zangerl, alias Moritatensaenger

[1] “…und Erstaunen ergreifet das Volk umher…”

[2] http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/gewalt-in-kairo-mehrere-tote-bei-religionsunruhen-1.1158077