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September 07, 2012

LA Times: Egypt town's Muslim-Christian unrest speaks to bigger challenges

by Jeffrey Fleishman
The Los Angeles Times

DAHSHUR, Egypt — It began when a Christian dry-cleaning business scorched a Muslim man's shirt.

First came the insults, and then Muslims and Christians were clashing in a square in this farming town rimmed by pyramids. A gasoline bomb whistled off a roof and struck Moaz Hasaballah, leaving him blistered and, days later, dead.

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