The Reuters website reports that Christians and Muslims fought on the streets of Cairo today (May 7, 2011) in violence triggered by word of a mixed romance. At least five people were killed, and 54 were injured.
Today's violence broke out in the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo, after word spread that a Christian woman had married a Muslim and was being held in a church against her will.
Hundreds of Muslims converged on the church and demanded the woman be released. Orthodox Coptic Christians stood outside the church to protect it. Gunfire was exchanged in the melee, including people shooting from rooftops.
Mixed relatonships are taboo in Egypt. If a Christian woman marries a Muslim, she is expelled from the church. A Muslim woman is not allowed to marry a Christian man, according to state law.
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