A Good Reason for Mr. Michael Mounir to Rejoice!
Ismail Imadudeen
November 25, 2010
Today is a sad day for Egypt, but could be considered one of the most exciting days for some other people like Mr. Michael Mounir the founder of the US Copts Association; an association that claims to promote the Coptic cause in the US.
Today, Egypt witnessed for the first time in its capital the first ever violent and bloody clash between a mob of Coptic rioters and the government. Some high ranking security officials have been hurt, some government properties have been attacked and a rioter has been killed as a result of the clash.
The mob – which happened to be a few thousands - blocked one of the busiest streets in Cairo, i.e. the Pyramids road, and started shouting racist remarks in public encouraged by some Coptic clergymen.
The story behind is that a facility that has been granted a building permission for providing services to the Christian community in El Omranya region was witnessed to violate the rules specified in the permission which necessitated the government´s intervention. The governor of Giza tried to solve the issue peacefully with the Coptic officials, and every thing went well as planned, but, for some unknown reasons anger spread among the Christian community there and the riot took place!
It happened that the governor assured the delegates of the Christian community his approval for changing the permission to build a worshiping facility instead and guaranteed that the matter wouldn´t take a few weeks, but some people among the Copts are spreading the culture of hatred and fear; those people moved the community to act in that unprecedented brutal manner.
I´m sure that selective snapshots will be all over the Internet to show one sided story of the incident on how the Copts in Egypt are discriminated, suppressed and killed on the hands of the security personnel. I´m also sure that some other "human rights" groups will start condemning the Egyptian government without any investigation.
I´m shocked and so sad, because we never witnessed such vicious acts from our brothers the Copts in Egypt. Some expatriate Copts such as Mr. Michael Mounir must set themselves responsible, directly or indirectly, for what has happened today.
I call upon those minority Copts to stop immediately what they are doing if they have any kind of love in their hearts for the land that they belong to. They have to understand that they are destroying the country and leading it to chaos. They might have forgotten that for every Christian in Egypt there are ten Muslims, and the use of force by the Copts will apparently direct us to dire consequences; a lose-lose affair.
It is now obvious that some expatriate Copts are working relentlessly on one side of the Egyptian society and the Al Qaeda group is working on the other side so as to drive Egypt to a kind of civil war between the two elements of the society; the Muslims and the Christians.
I would like to express my fullest support to the government of Egypt in crushing, with an iron fist, any attempt by any person or groups who try to get Egypt into a civil war; the war profiteering jerks who just want to achieve some greedy ambitions by wiping out the dream of the Egyptians for a better life in the future.
Today, Egypt witnessed for the first time in its capital the first ever violent and bloody clash between a mob of Coptic rioters and the government. Some high ranking security officials have been hurt, some government properties have been attacked and a rioter has been killed as a result of the clash.
The mob – which happened to be a few thousands - blocked one of the busiest streets in Cairo, i.e. the Pyramids road, and started shouting racist remarks in public encouraged by some Coptic clergymen.
The story behind is that a facility that has been granted a building permission for providing services to the Christian community in El Omranya region was witnessed to violate the rules specified in the permission which necessitated the government´s intervention. The governor of Giza tried to solve the issue peacefully with the Coptic officials, and every thing went well as planned, but, for some unknown reasons anger spread among the Christian community there and the riot took place!
It happened that the governor assured the delegates of the Christian community his approval for changing the permission to build a worshiping facility instead and guaranteed that the matter wouldn´t take a few weeks, but some people among the Copts are spreading the culture of hatred and fear; those people moved the community to act in that unprecedented brutal manner.
I´m sure that selective snapshots will be all over the Internet to show one sided story of the incident on how the Copts in Egypt are discriminated, suppressed and killed on the hands of the security personnel. I´m also sure that some other "human rights" groups will start condemning the Egyptian government without any investigation.
I´m shocked and so sad, because we never witnessed such vicious acts from our brothers the Copts in Egypt. Some expatriate Copts such as Mr. Michael Mounir must set themselves responsible, directly or indirectly, for what has happened today.
I call upon those minority Copts to stop immediately what they are doing if they have any kind of love in their hearts for the land that they belong to. They have to understand that they are destroying the country and leading it to chaos. They might have forgotten that for every Christian in Egypt there are ten Muslims, and the use of force by the Copts will apparently direct us to dire consequences; a lose-lose affair.
It is now obvious that some expatriate Copts are working relentlessly on one side of the Egyptian society and the Al Qaeda group is working on the other side so as to drive Egypt to a kind of civil war between the two elements of the society; the Muslims and the Christians.
I would like to express my fullest support to the government of Egypt in crushing, with an iron fist, any attempt by any person or groups who try to get Egypt into a civil war; the war profiteering jerks who just want to achieve some greedy ambitions by wiping out the dream of the Egyptians for a better life in the future.
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