In the light of the September 11 attacks , he said of suicide bombing as a tactic that : People who support and found reasons to feel good over these incidents are doing more than one wrong thing : first , ignoring the tragedy of killing an innocent group of people . Second , not thinking about the reaction of showing they found satisfaction in the incidents . Third , they are considered accomplices in the crime . Fourth , they are committing a wrongful act not approved by religion . A large number of Muslims in Egypt unambiguously consider all non-Muslim religions as heresy . Persecution against Christians during Pope Shenouda III 's reign was chiefly conducted by private individuals and organizations , especially radical Salafis , although the state continued to enforce long-standing discriminatory policies and engage in occasional Christian-baiting . Particularly in Upper Egypt , the rise in extremist Salafi groups such as the Gama'at Islamiya during the 1980s was accompanied by attacks on Copts and on Coptic churches . The police have been accused of siding with the attackers in some of these cases
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria