A leading Egyptian Jesuit says fundamentalists want to cause conflicts among Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
Fr William Sidhom said the Muslim Brotherhood, an international conservative Islamic political movement founded in Egypt in 1928, wants “to make their own imaginary religious country on the Egyptian blood.”
The priest serves as the secretary general for the Committee for Justice and Peace of the Association of the Catholic Hierarchy of Egypt.
Sidhom spoke to Crux after the latest deadly attack against Christians, which was on Dec. 29, when a militant opened fire outside a suburban Cairo church, killing at least nine people.
A militant group affiliated with the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for most attacks on Christians in the country, including a series of killings that forced scores of Christian families last year to flee their homes in northern Sinai.
“They want to make things bad between Egyptian Muslims and Christians to create a distortion, because this is the only way to break Egypt,” the priest said. “Because Egypt is very strong, and they have no other option to make a division between people, except through religious things.”
