This subject is very dear to my heart. Speaking as a Coptic Christian I am appalled at what is going on over there. I disagreed with the revolution to over throw Hosny Mubarak for one reason only- he was protecting the minorities (Coptics). He, himself, had imprisoned Salafists (a.k.a the Muslim Brotherhood) knowing good and well the threat they offered to society. Since he'd been over thrown, attacks on the Copts have grown regardless of previous attacks that were kept on the down low whilst he was in power to say the least. Sadly, the world is sitting and watching this genocide in the making. Blowing up churches, burning places of worship, shooting and running over peaceful protesters with army tanks is horrendous. How can the world leaders sit and watch whilst people are losing loved ones in a torturous manner?
Recently, the formation of a government is taking place after the first phase of Egyptian elections. Who you ask is going to lead and form the new government? The Salafists nonetheless. How can such a party of thugs who claim to fear God and be highly religious come into such power? When I speak to Egyptians - muslims and non-muslims - they all agree that they shouldn't be in power. For the first time everyone wanted to make a stand and do their best to vote. This proved a difficult task especially for expats who only found out the proper procedure ten days before voting! There should have been an online voting poll for the world's Egyptians. Only 100,00 Egyptians outside of Egypt actually voted. These numbers are disheartening.
As a result, now we must watch whilst the elected PM has to form his new government. Where is the justice when it is the uneducated who were reused into voting? They are taught to believe that these people are religious, fear God, and do a service to the poor? This ploy funded by other Middle Eastern countries is unfair. No outside help has helped the other parties running in the elections. Is it known by the world that a Christian can't run? Instead a party started by multi-billionaire Naguib Sawires and represented by a liberal muslim politican has been totally ignored. They are liberals who want justice and a fair 'new' Egypt but only received a mere 20% of the votes. Naguib Sawires was interviewed two weeks prior to the first phase of the elections on CBC. He made it clear that they required funding and wanted outside help. Recently, the Slafists declared that they would boycott all Sawires products and tax them 50%.
How is that just? Is it because they are of another religion and creed that they must be outcast? Where has this been seen before? Oh yeah, countries such as Iraq! What does it take for the world to take notice that there is a prejudice in the Middle East? Not just with Christians but other Muslims such as Shiites. Everyday, people live in fear and try to find a way out because they are being pushed into this corner, struggling to remain alive. But, where can they go? North America and Europe have stopped offering refugee status to all these minorities trying to survive! Keyword: survive. I am honestly outraged that the rest of the world believes in democracies and rights as human beings yet we can watch what is going on in these countries and pass them off as 'those stupid people are fighting again'.
I hope that people will take more notice of the current situation in, not just, Egypt but all the Middle Eastern countries because this is the start of what is likely to be a genocide against all minorities.
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