On Friday, 30 September 2011, a mob of Islamists set fire to a church in Marinab, a village in the Edfu district of southern Egypt, and set about terrorizing local Coptic families. While Christian leaders were calling for help, the Governor of the province, General Mostafa al-Sayyed, appeared on several television channels denying anything was happening. This sparked a wave of anger among Egyptian Christians, Copts, and in the following days thousands of protestors
