Egyptian Crossroads
My, how wonderfully well Egypt has progressed since its youth with their revolutionary zeal demanded a fairer, free and respectful country so that full employment could be offered to all who wished to make a life for themselves, and respect for freedom of conscience and movement and political adherence and religions and a free press might result, making the country a better place to live in.The Muslim Brotherhood appears to have prospered; it is no longer in bad odour with the government. The Palestinian governments of Hamas and Fatah are now welcomed with open arms in Cairo. Of course Gazan Palestinians were actually Egyptian in origin.
Many Egyptians urge for a more Islamist governance. And many more Egyptians insist that the peace agreement with Israel be abrogated, and tossed in the dust bin of Middle East history. The once-shunned Gazan Palestinians will soon be permitted to move freely beyond the check-points into Egypt that were formerly denied them.
And relations between the majority Muslim population and the minority Coptic Christians have deteriorated rather rapidly as Salafists, encouraged by a greater tolerance by the military governors for fanatical Islam appear to feel far more relaxed about attacking Christians in their midst. Interfaith harmony was never assured in Egypt, but it is now somewhat frazzled.
The coming together in comradeship and good feeling between Muslims and Christians during the time of Tahrir Square fellowship when all Egyptians seemed in general agreement that removing President Hosni Mubarak would usher in a new era of freedoms and opportunities and economic advance appears to have stalled between might be and perhaps not.
A new sport in the land appears to be the burning of churches and any pretext will do nicely to inflame the outrage of Muslims willing to accuse their Christian brethren of ill deeds aimed at Muslims. It is not the Egyptian Christians who mount violent action against the Muslims, but marching mobs of Muslims intent on mayhem, confronting the infidels among them.
The working solution to volatile enmities is to set churches ablaze, as was done with the Church of St.Mena and the Church of the Virgin Mary. Hundreds were injured in the melee that followed which took the military hours to come to grips with, and a dozen people were killed. Rumours of an interfaith marriage was what it took to enrage Muslims.
Working together to realize a new Egypt.
Labels: Chaos, Conflict, Human Rights, Middle East, Political Realities, Religion
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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