{"id":2500,"date":"2018-11-19T17:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2018-11-19T17:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:46:40","slug":"egyptian-sentenced-to-death-in-killing-of-christian-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2018\/11\/19\/egyptian-sentenced-to-death-in-killing-of-christian-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Sentenced to Death in Killing of Christian Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CAIRO \u2014 An Egyptian man accused of supporting the Islamic State was sentenced to death on Saturday in the fatal stabbing of an 82-year-old Christian doctor in Cairo.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Prosecutors said the killing in September 2017 happened when the 40-year-old defendant requested to see the doctor, pretending to be a patient.<\/p>\n

The man, who was not identified, started stabbing the doctor when he was shown into the clinic\u2019s examination room, and then stabbed the physician\u2019s assistant as she intervened to try to stop the attack, officials said.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the defendant had embraced the extremist ideology of the Islamic State. The local affiliate of the group has\u00a0targeted Egypt\u2019s minority Christian population<\/a>\u00a0as punishment for its support of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has cracked down on Muslim groups since taking power after the military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Islamic State in Egypt has expanded an insurgency that started in the Sinai Peninsula in recent years to include attacks on Christians in churches and major cities and outside monasteries.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the militant group said it was behind an ambush on two buses\u00a0in which gunmen fatally shot dead at least seven Coptic Christian pilgrims\u00a0<\/a>and wounded at least 16 others. The attack came after a nearly yearlong lull in major attacks on Copts in Egypt.<\/p>\n

The two buses were carrying pilgrims left the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor, 85 miles south of Cairo, in Egypt\u2019s Western Desert.<\/p>\n

In November 2017, dozens of militants\u00a0opened fire on a mosque<\/a>\u00a0in Sinai affiliated with the Sufi strain of Islam \u2014 which extremists view as heretical \u2014 killing at least 311 people, in the deadliest act of terrorism in Egypt\u2019s modern history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CAIRO \u2014 An Egyptian man accused of supporting the Islamic State was sentenced to death on Saturday in the fatal stabbing of an 82-year-old Christian doctor in Cairo. Prosecutors said the killing in September 2017 happened when the 40-year-old defendant requested to see the doctor, pretending to be a patient. The man, who was not identified, started stabbing the doctor… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ny-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}