I'm not currently in Egypt so I don't have the level of visibility I'd normally have of whats going on, what I know for fact is that some people demolished some church somewhere in the country side surrounding Egypt, and then held Fajr prayer on its ruins, then the army stepped in. Next day several sectarian clashes took place in poorer areas of Egypt, mostly slums and the areas surrounding them, army stepped in again using a level of force it's never used before against protesters and at least 10 people were killed and hundreds were injured.
I know we've always had sectarian issues in Egypt, and I know that the regime used these issues to keep the people busy fighting one another rather than fighting the government, I've never met a Muslim who'd actively harm another based on his religion and I've lived my entire life in Egypt, it's just against the Egyptian nature, we are a peaceful passive people if we weren't we wouldn't have been so easily governed by mubarak's regime for 30 years.
Back in school when one of the teacher's wanted to mess up some kid's life he'd treat him better and provided him with fake protection that would only end up instigating other kids to try to hurt him whenever they can. The Ministry of Interior did something similar by placing a single police deputy in a small kiosk in front of churches, this police deputy wouldn't provide any sort of protection to the church if anything happened, and generally he just sat there doing nothing as an Egyptian Muslim I felt offended by that, and if i was christian I'd have been even more offended by that presence that does nothing but make me look week, hated and in need of protection, anyway during the revolution and after the disappearance act pulled by the ministry of interior all of these police deputies disappeared and nothing happened, not a single church was attacked, not even the Jewish synagogue down town. I believe that these deputies were placed there to make sure that Muslim's and Christian's alike feel that they aren't safe.
So why now?, and right after what appeared to be the fall of the State Security these sectarian issues appeared, a naive person would think that the State Security was stopping such events from happening, but of course this is not true, over the last decade several sectarian incidents happened, some of them even are believed to be managed and caused by the SS to keep the people busy, also even if the SS was protecting Egypt from such things, it'd not have happened this fast. Personally I believe that this last incident was triggered by the SS, which I'm sure is still operational, only gave up its HQs and is operating from safe houses or something like that. All they needed to do was to trigger an incident get the people all excited about it, and let all the social diseases we have in Egypt do their work, and of course the least educated least privileged are usually the people who fall into such schemes.
Going through Copts United, a web site dedicated to Coptic needs in Egypt, they managed to list the people appearing in the video of this incident published on youtube (another reason to think its SS), two of the people are known have been working with the SS, and one is actually a secret SS policeman. the comments on that article are mostly talking about solidarity and how Muslims and Christians are in one ship and how we should stand up against such things, obviously most people visiting that site didn't fall for it, unfortunately there are more underprivileged less educated people than there are people who are aware enough to tell that this is all a scheme, the only way to get out of this situation is Solidarity, Muslim's, as in bearded salafi's should head out and express their solidarity to Christians, which already started happening but I believe that more of this is needed.
I know we've always had sectarian issues in Egypt, and I know that the regime used these issues to keep the people busy fighting one another rather than fighting the government, I've never met a Muslim who'd actively harm another based on his religion and I've lived my entire life in Egypt, it's just against the Egyptian nature, we are a peaceful passive people if we weren't we wouldn't have been so easily governed by mubarak's regime for 30 years.
Back in school when one of the teacher's wanted to mess up some kid's life he'd treat him better and provided him with fake protection that would only end up instigating other kids to try to hurt him whenever they can. The Ministry of Interior did something similar by placing a single police deputy in a small kiosk in front of churches, this police deputy wouldn't provide any sort of protection to the church if anything happened, and generally he just sat there doing nothing as an Egyptian Muslim I felt offended by that, and if i was christian I'd have been even more offended by that presence that does nothing but make me look week, hated and in need of protection, anyway during the revolution and after the disappearance act pulled by the ministry of interior all of these police deputies disappeared and nothing happened, not a single church was attacked, not even the Jewish synagogue down town. I believe that these deputies were placed there to make sure that Muslim's and Christian's alike feel that they aren't safe.
So why now?, and right after what appeared to be the fall of the State Security these sectarian issues appeared, a naive person would think that the State Security was stopping such events from happening, but of course this is not true, over the last decade several sectarian incidents happened, some of them even are believed to be managed and caused by the SS to keep the people busy, also even if the SS was protecting Egypt from such things, it'd not have happened this fast. Personally I believe that this last incident was triggered by the SS, which I'm sure is still operational, only gave up its HQs and is operating from safe houses or something like that. All they needed to do was to trigger an incident get the people all excited about it, and let all the social diseases we have in Egypt do their work, and of course the least educated least privileged are usually the people who fall into such schemes.
Going through Copts United, a web site dedicated to Coptic needs in Egypt, they managed to list the people appearing in the video of this incident published on youtube (another reason to think its SS), two of the people are known have been working with the SS, and one is actually a secret SS policeman. the comments on that article are mostly talking about solidarity and how Muslims and Christians are in one ship and how we should stand up against such things, obviously most people visiting that site didn't fall for it, unfortunately there are more underprivileged less educated people than there are people who are aware enough to tell that this is all a scheme, the only way to get out of this situation is Solidarity, Muslim's, as in bearded salafi's should head out and express their solidarity to Christians, which already started happening but I believe that more of this is needed.
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