In the past few days, amateur videos have appeared
online showing various attacks and lynchings by members of the Muslim
Brotherhood following the clearing of pro-Morsi camps in Cairo and in major
Egyptian cities.
Such videos show peaceful protesters but also armed men with
machineguns, rocket-propelled grenades and guns, killing policemen, burning churches
and humiliating nuns.
In one report, a small Egyptian television TV station put together a series
of incidents
that began last Wednesday.
In the video, one can see extremist militants at the
Nadah Square camp shooting at police with automatic rifles.
Some scenes were made by members of the Brotherhood, and
include the execution of some army officers and the lynching of a driver, taken
from his car and butchered to death.
In one scene, a Christian religious
building is set on fire on Wednesday afternoon. Over three days, 58 churches and
162 shops and homes were destroyed.
Evidence for Muslim Brotherhood violence is not only provided by videos but
by eyewitness accounts published in Western media.
One of the most dramatic incidents occurred on Wednesday as well, at a
school run by Franciscan nuns in Bani Suef (Upper Egypt), when hundreds of
extremists stormed the facility where they raped two teachers. Three nuns were
also paraded before an Islamist crowd as prisoners of war.
Yesterday Sister Manal, head of the school, gave an interview of over an
hour to the Associated
Press (AP) in which she
described in detail the brutality of the Islamists.
The nun said that she and two others sisters, Abeer and Demiana, were only saved
by the intervention of a young Muslim woman, who had taught at the school.
With
her husband, she convinced the members of the Muslim Brotherhood to let the
three nuns go.
During the interview, Sister Manal also complained about the behaviour
of the police, which did not show up despite numerous calls for help.