Sufi leaders have called for government protection and are forming local committees to protect sacred sites under attack (The Guardian, 11.04.2011)
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Islamists attack Sufi mosques in Egypt:
"Wielding crowbars and sledgehammers, two dozen Islamists arrived at the Sidi Abdel Rahman (Sufi) shrine in the middle of the night aiming to smash it to pieces.
Word spread quickly through the narrow, dirt roads of the poor Egyptian town of Qalyoub. Within minutes, the group were surrounded and attacked by residents who rallied to defend the site revered by their families for generations. "They say the shrine is haram (something forbidden in Islam), but what they are doing is haram," said Hussein Ahmed, 58, describing the shrine attackers as Sunni fanatics, at least two of whom witnesses said were then badly beaten."
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It is saddening that things like this happen.