Dairot and the realities the Copts are facing

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A priest is on his way to the neighbouring village of his parish. He is planning to visit a friend early in the morning. The village is about 3 kilometres from his home Church. The priest stops as soon as he enters the village when a mob of people block the road and walk towards him. His friend sitting in the car tells him to turn and take another road, when he do so the second surprise comes when a new flock of people blocks the other road and going towards them also.
A third road is seen and the priest tries to enter when angry demonstrators come towards them shouting ¨Allah wa Akbar¨ and similar shouts.
On this road he remembers that he knows a Christian family and he decide to take refugee in their home. They stop the car and knock on the door and when that family see it is their friendly priest they open and let him in. Meanwhile the demonstrators are getting more and more angry hitting anything belonging to Christians in that village. The name of the village is Dairout and located in the Upper Egypt region near al Qusiyya town.
The angry people comes closer and closer to the house the priest is hiding in and starts to knock on the door. During this action others are destroying stores, institutions and cars belonging to the Christian Coptic people in the village. This event is seen by the local police that either don’t have the will to interfere or lack the strength to do so.

The Muslim groups demonstrating was furious because a Christian guy had a relation to a Muslim girl from the village, rumours say that there was an intimate picture of them both spread on mobile phones across the area. No one of the Coptic priests or organisations or individuals has seen any picture. Two weeks after this accident the result is this:
1. The boy is on the run in other cities.
2. His father is beheaded with 160 bullets in his body.
3. 4 of his relatives shot dead.
4. Many cars, stores and institutions belonging to Christians getting burned and destroyed.
5. A general fear among the Copts to leave their home, especially in the night.
6. A general feeling that Christian lives means nothing to the Muslim majority living around the Christian minority.

This accident is not the only one in Egypt but happens in most regions from time to time. Every time some extremist Muslim group feels like it is time to take their anger on the Christians some problems occur.
If a rumour about a picture in a cell phone made all this troubles and resulted in many deaths, what will happen the day anyone of the 10 million Copts do a real mistake to any Muslim?
May God open the eyes of all people and puts love in their hearts.