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Over 50 Churches Torched in Egypt: Wiesenthal Center Denounces Muslim Brotherhood Pogrom; Urges US, EU to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Hate Group

The Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed its horror and outrage over the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) pogrom that has destroyed at least50Coptic Christian Churches in Egypt. "While we do not condone the deaths of any innocent protesters in Egypt —nothing can justify such attacks," charged Rabbis Marvin Hier and AbrahamCooper the founder and dean and associate dean of the International Jewish Human Rights NGO.

“This pogrom against Egypt's historic Christian community provides more bloody proof that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a fit partnerfor a future democratic Egypt but an avowed enemy of the values of democracy, equality and freedom. The violent targeting of an entire religious community comprising millions of fellowcitizens, its longstanding hatred for the Jewish people, its intolerance of any Muslim who does not share their theology or world view, confirms to the world what the MB really is— anextremist hate group.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center reiterates our call to the Obama Administration and the European Union to publicly denounce the Muslim Brotherhood for what it is, and to redoubleinternational efforts to work with any and all Egyptians truly committed to a future society based on peaceful coexistence, and mutual respect," Rabbis Hier and Cooperconcluded.

For more information, please contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036, join the Center on Facebook, www.facebook.com/simonwiesenthalcenter, or follow @simonwiesenthal for newsupdates sent direct to your Twitter page or mobile device.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families inthe United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament(Parlatino).

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