About the recent events I say

I’d like to state that I, as a Muslim, am not represented by the events that happened in the past days, carried out by a group of people who call themselves Muslims. They don’t understand anything about Islam and yet they act in its name.


First: The interception of women protests: it’s an absolutely outrageous thing, Islam orders us to respect women not to harass them and intercept their protests. Beside, we are ordered to give the women their right, whether they want more rights or they believe they’re receiving no rights or whatever their opinion is, and you don’t agree with them, simply argue with them. In a civilized, intellectual manner. Intercepting them, harassing them and yelling at them shows you know nothing of your religion (whether you’re a Muslim or a Christian).

Women’s role is noticed throughout the Islamic history, I just want to state one of these roles : the person who narrated most of Hadith (prophet’s saying, guidance and rules in Islam) was his wife Khadeeja.


Second: As for the incidents that have happened in Atfeeh: I couldn’t condemn it more. This is totally stupid, absolutely ignorant thing to do. The prophet said that if we hurt a Christian or Jew, it’s like hurting the prophet himself. To burn a church and kick Christians out of their homes is in total violation of what our religion asks us to do. This is terrorism. Terrorists are cursed in Islam and have punishments varying according to their crimes.

There are believes that all these incidents are happening because the “State Security” wants revenge from the people for what has happened (the breaking into the HQs of the SS and confiscating documents). I think that the SS used the most powerful weapon that the Mubarak’s regime has been using and strengthening it for 30 years…ignorance.
The educational system in Egypt teaches students not to think. It changes them to information receivers. Trains them to shut down their brain and just do what they are told. It wouldn’t be hard for an SS agent to convince people that those Christians should be exiled from the village, with the help of other SS agents (who would be among the people, show agreement with what the SS agent says and thus convince the people that what he’s saying is a good idea).

All of these incidents serve the SS, in my opinion, to achieve three goals:

• Distract the people from the constitutional amendments.
• Divide and conquer: make people long for the era of Mubarak, when people lost their dignity and had a false sense of security. Also that would make the revolutionaries mission to fight for freedom much harder since they won’t be fighting the loyalists to the fallen regime, but also they’ll have to convince the people that what they’re doing is for their own good
• Down Essam Sharaf government: since it’s a revolutionaries chosen government, showing it as a helpless government that can’t run things in Egypt would damage the revolutionaries image, people will suspect their choices and demands which will also contribute to making the mission of the revolutionaries harder.

We shouldn't let them have their way, we’ll show them that we are united. I have Christian friends, they were among the people who attended my grandma’s funeral. We are Egyptians first and foremost. Killing us won’t get them their regime back. We’ll not go back to the era before 25th January. We didn’t fight for freedom to lose it to a group of empty-headed SS agents. We’ll show them that we are one. And on Friday Christians and Muslims will protest together to show unity. They’ll chant together for freedom and dignity we longed for. And the SS agents will fail.