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Free to attack Christians.(Egypt)

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| May 01, 2007 | Dykstra, Jerry | COPYRIGHT 2008 Christianity Today, Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Egyptian Christian cobbler Fouad Fawzy Tawfik paid the ultimate price for his belief in Jesus Christ.

According to Compass Direct News, Muslim ex-convict Hossam Hafez Ahmad Attaya killed Tawfik last June, confessing that he had planned to murder him because he was an "infidel" whose offhand comment had offended him. Attaya knifed Tawfik as the shoemaker bent to take Attaya's foot measurement in the city of Zagazig.

"I want to kill him because he is an infidel, let me kill them all!" Attaya shouted as he stabbed an eight-inch blade into Tawfik's left lung and stomach, according to his family. Restraining Attaya from stabbing Tawfik a second time, bystanders …

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