| Abu Musallam attack | |
| Map: | Egypt Giza locator map.svg |
| Location: | Abu Musallam, Giza, Egypt |
| Target: | Shiites |
| Date: | 23 June 2013 |
| Type: | Stabbings/beatings/lynching |
| Fatalities: | 5 Shias |
| Injuries: | dozens |
| Perps: | Sunnis (Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood)[1] |
| Weapons: | sticks rocks |
The Abu Musallam incident was an event where a large group of 3000 people, including Salafist Muslims, killed a small group of Shias in their home in a suburb of Cairo on June 23 2013. Among the dead was sheikh Hassan Shehata who was a prominent religious figure among the Egyptian Shia community. Some news sources described the mob as "takfiris", while others described it as being a result of anti-Shia rhetoric steaming from sermons at Friday prayers.[2]