The Egyptian civil war

AP/Washington Times:

Egypt's latest bloodletting between Christians and Muslims has many fearing an explosion of sectarian violence in the Arab world's most populous country, fueled by frustration with plummeting living standards.
Increasingly radicalized Muslims, facing growing unemployment, have found it easier to take out their anger on the small Christian minority than confront the government of President Hosni Mubarak, social commentators say.
"It's a war with ourselves, with fanaticism and hatred among the sons of this nation," said Muhammad El-Sayed Said, an Egyptian political analyst. "What makes things more dangerous is that it is the poor and marginalized who have become part of these clashes, which gives it a popular depth that is hard to control."
The latest clashes erupted last Friday with knife attacks at three Coptic Christian churches in the port city of Alexandria. Three days of rioting by Christians and Muslims followed. Two persons -- a Christian and a Muslim -- died, at least 40 were wounded and more than 100 were detained.
Observers elsewhere in the Arab world blame the same religious extremism that fueled violence between Christians and Muslims during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war and the sectarian violence between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims that plagues Iraq today.
"The strife didn't start yesterday in Egypt, or a quarter of a century ago in Lebanon, or three years ago in Iraq," columnist Khairy Mansour wrote in United Arab Emirates' al-Khaleej daily. "The worm has been growing inside the apple, eating up most of its fabric."

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Actually, it is just sectarian strife that occurs wherever Muslims are in the majority, but if we are going to call it civil war in Iraq, why not call it that through out the Muslim world. Muslim religious bigotry is the driving force behind this violence and the bigotry is not limited o just non Muslims. It also includes bigotry agains Shia Muslims by Sunnis and to some extent vice versa. Religious intolerance is the fuel for most of the violence in the middle east and it has been ever since Mohammad proclaimed himself a phophet.