The World - News from Sept. 20, 1987
Muslim extremists raided a Coptic Christian library and tore up books, destroyed tape recordings of hymns and sermons and smashed chairs before police intervened, security sources in Egypt said. Eight people were arrested in the raid, which occurred shortly after noon Muslim prayers when about 15 Muslim extremists stormed the library of a Coptic Christian Society in Assiut, a provincial capital south of Cairo, the sources added. Assiut has been a center of fundamentalist agitation since Muslim extremists assassinated President Anwar Sadat at a military parade in Cairo six years ago.
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