Abu Musallam attack | |
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Location | Abu Musallam, Giza, Egypt |
Date | 23 June 2013 |
Target | Shiites |
Attack type | Stabbings/beatings/lynching |
Weapons |
sticks rocks |
Deaths | 5 Shias[ citation needed] |
Injured | dozens[ citation needed] |
Perpetrators | Sunnis ( Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood) [1] |
The Abu Musallam incident was an event where a large group of 3000 people, including Salafist Muslims, killed a small group of Shias in their home in a suburb of Cairo on June 23 2013. Among the dead was sheikh Hassan Shehata who was a prominent religious figure among the Egyptian Shia community. Some news sources described the mob as " takfiris", while others described it as being a result of anti-Shia rhetoric steaming from sermons at Friday prayers. [2]
Abu Musallam attack | |
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Location | Abu Musallam, Giza, Egypt |
Date | 23 June 2013 |
Target | Shiites |
Attack type | Stabbings/beatings/lynching |
Weapons |
sticks rocks |
Deaths | 5 Shias[ citation needed] |
Injured | dozens[ citation needed] |
Perpetrators | Sunnis ( Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood) [1] |
The Abu Musallam incident was an event where a large group of 3000 people, including Salafist Muslims, killed a small group of Shias in their home in a suburb of Cairo on June 23 2013. Among the dead was sheikh Hassan Shehata who was a prominent religious figure among the Egyptian Shia community. Some news sources described the mob as " takfiris", while others described it as being a result of anti-Shia rhetoric steaming from sermons at Friday prayers. [2]