Egypt: Sufi-Coptic Alliance to Counter 'Hardline' Islamists

The Muslim Sufi-Christian Coptic alliance aims at countering the hardline religious current and opposing the sectarian strife that may result from the practices of this current, Alaa Aboul Azayem, Sheikh of the Azmeya Sufi method and head of the Coptic-Sophist alliance "The Egyptian League", has said.

"The idea of establishing the current followed the attack launched by a number of Muslim Brotherhood members and Salafis on some shrines and churches and we found that the hardline ... Islamist current targets us Sufis and Christians," Sheikh Aboul Azayem told Aswat Masriya.

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