Boys 9 and 10 arrested for pissing on Islam
Two Coptic Christian boys have been put in juvenile detention after locals accused them of urinating on pages of the Islamic holy book, an Islamic cleric and prosecutors say, in the latest in a series of legal cases in Egypt against alleged contempt of religion.
The incident with the two boys took place in the village of Ezbet Marco in the southern province of Beni Suef. Sheik Gamal Shamardal, a Muslim cleric and the local leader of a hardline Islamist group, said residents saw the boys bring pages of the Koran behind a local mosque and urinate on them.
