The situation of Christians in today's Egypt is critical.

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The situation of Christians in today's Egypt is critical. Egypt continues to move towards chaos. In fact, the position of Christians in today's Egypt is critical. The largest clashes between Coptic Christians, temporary authorities and Muslims since the overthrow of Mubarak took place in the capital of Egypt. Reported 36 dead and more injured 300 (dozens of them law enforcement officers).

The arson of a Christian church in the province of Aswan (Upper Egypt) served as a pretext for unrest. Thousands of Coptic Christians came out to protest at the building of the Egyptian Union of Television and Radio Broadcasting, it quickly turned into clashes with military personnel and Islamists.

The Christians demanded the resignation of the provisional government of Egypt, headed by its chairman, Muhammad Tantawi. According to them, the authorities are engaged in inflicting Christians and Muslims, creating with the help of the media from the Copts of the "internal enemy" of Egypt. Also called for the resignation of the governor of Aswan, to protect the rights of religious minorities in Egypt.

The situation was aggravated by the fact that when the first clashes of the Copts with law enforcement forces took place, pictures of how Christians attack policemen, smash and turn over cars, were shown on TV. The authorities declared that Christians were to blame for the pogroms, and called on citizens to help restore order. Radical Islamists took to the streets, they also started pogroms, they heard a call - “End the Christians”.

Later, when emotions were asleep, Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said that in the events that took place there were no right and wrongdoers. This is a provocation with the aim of pushing together Muslims and Christians, the army and the people, to cause chaos and devastation in a country that is already going through hard times. True, the head of the provisional government could not name the perpetrators of the provocation. Sharaf called the Egyptians to an interfaith world, "otherwise we will all perish in this fire." And the mayoralty of the capital of Egypt declared that it would cancel one of the legislative acts that has been acting against Christians since the times of the Ottoman Empire. According to him, the church was allowed to build only with the consent of the authorities.

Some Egyptian media blamed the Israeli intelligence services for this provocation, so according to one version, the unrest began when a group of unidentified men in civilian clothes attacked a convoy of demonstrators. And according to the information of the Al-Arabiya (UAE) channel, the shootout began after Christians attacked the military, throwing their armored vehicles with “Molotov cocktails” and taking away some of the military personnel weapon.

This is not the first mass clash of Muslims and Christians this year. In May, 2011, during multi-day clashes between Christians and Muslims, at least 21 people died and hundreds were injured. Then the reason for the unrest was allegedly the abduction of two Muslim women by Christians. According to the Christians, they defended the Christian women who had previously been abducted by Muslims and forced to convert to Islam. In addition, one of the women was the wife of a priest. It should be noted that the abduction of women Christians has long become a kind of tradition among Muslim Egyptians. This allows the “bridegroom” not to spend money on a significant ransom for the girl’s parents, besides many Muslims consider the Copts to be “booty” from the time of the former Arab conquest of the country.

Christians can not resist the process of the radicalization of Egypt - no more than 10%. Moreover, not only radical Muslim groups, but also the army are now opposed to them. The only way to save yourself is to flee the country. What is already happening, after the collapse of the Mubarak regime, 100 thousand people left the country; by the end of the year, 250 thousand people are ready to say goodbye to Egypt. It is clear that recent events will only strengthen these moods.

In Egypt, the “Iraqi scenario” actually repeats itself; more than a million Christians left Iraq after the fall of the regime of authoritarian dictator Saddam Hussein. Of the 1,5 million of the Christian community of Iraq, no more than 150 thousand people remained.

The current temporary authorities of Egypt are not able to stop this process, if the army actively protects Christians, it will lose the vestiges of authority in society. And it is profitable to channel the dissatisfaction of citizens, to gain more time.
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  1. +1
    11 October 2011 09: 40
    In Egypt, the “Iraqi scenario” is actually repeating; more than a million Christians left Iraq after the fall of the regime of authoritarian dictator Saddam Hussein

    American democracy in action.
    RIA Novosti, Pavel Davydov. The sectarian clashes that took place in Egypt on Sunday night are part of an "American project" to partition the Middle East, Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah said Monday.

    "What is happening (in Egypt) is part of a US plan to divide the region according to ethnic, religious and racial divisions," she said in a statement.
  2. NUT
    NUT
    +1
    11 October 2011 10: 46
    by all indications, thanks to our helmsmen, with whom we do not drink and our $$ nerd tolerance, oh, how not far off is the appearance of an article with the same title, only instead of the word "Egypt" there will be "Russia"
    Damur 1976- Sagra 2011 and so on. etc.
  3. VALENOK
    0
    11 October 2011 14: 34
    Unfortunately, this is their price for a Christian faith, living in a Muslim country should have assumed that this will happen sooner or later and will happen if our brothers in faith in the minority are even Arabs, This will not happen in Russia, because only Orthodox never participated in the crusades, did not impose Christianity on their territory and our Russian Muslims are not newcomers from afar, but from time immemorial they lived together with us and defended the integrity of Russia with us, and the Russian people themselves never engaged in pogroms on religious grounds and in the event of an external threat, the entire multinational people would join the ranks. Take, for example, Minin and Pozharsky, who was a Tatar and raised the people to protect Moscow from the Catholics of the Poles, when they burned their own, and the Russian tsar took all the mosques in Russia under protection . By the way, not one European country has such experience and history as ours, but it is very annoying for many abroad and therefore they specially rewrite history so that we forget our ancestors and respect for ourselves.
    1. NUT
      NUT
      +3
      11 October 2011 16: 19
      "A highlander is rarely grateful, because he always believes that he received less than he deserves."
      Henry Ward Beecher
    2. 1Vadim1
      0
      11 October 2011 16: 59
      Since when did Minin and Pozharsky become Tatars?
      1. VALENOK
        0
        11 October 2011 17: 07
        Minin was a Tatar
        1. 1Vadim1
          +1
          11 October 2011 17: 29
          How Kuzma Minin was made a Tatar

          On the eve of the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, speaking in Kazan after prayer, at the same time, with a Muslim conversation, congratulated everyone present in the mosque with the upcoming “Day of National Unity”. And in order to convince their fellow Tatars that the “holiday” established by the Russian authorities was fully in line with the spirit of Islam, it was stated that on this day the militia was liberated under the leadership of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and the “ethnic Tatar” Kuzma Minin. No more, no less.

          Meanwhile, it is known for certain that Kuzma Minin was not any Tatar. The leader of the Russian militia came from the family of the Balakhna salt producer Mina Ankudinov. "Minin" was originally a patronymic and only later became a family name. Since his father's family was numerous, Kuzma did not inherit the family business and moved to Nizhny Novgorod, where he became a posad man, selling meat and fish. In September 1611 he was elected the headman of the zemstvo. Minin called for a "meeting of military men", was the first to set an example, giving a third of his property to the organization of the militia, and invited DM Pozharsky as the chief voivode. Together with the militia he went to Moscow and took part in the battle, which ended in the expulsion of the Polish invaders. After the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, Minin was promoted to the rank of nobleman of the Duma and the patrimony "in their family motionless." The former Nizhny Novgorod posadskiy lived in Moscow and carried out important orders of the government and the tsar, collected five (20% of the property) from the posad people, replenishing the treasury exhausted by the Troubles, participated together with other boyars in governing the state during the tsar's pilgrimage. All these are well-known historical facts. But where did the idiotic version of Minin's “Tatarism” come from?

          But from where: the source of this ridiculous invention was the “most authoritative” magazine for all historians “Ogonyok”. This liberal publication with a more than dubious reputation somehow printed next to a conversation with Professor Makhnach about the relationship between Russia and the Golden Horde, and next to another essay by another researcher Baimukhametov about some moments in the medieval history of Russia. And between them an inset was placed in capital letters: “Kuzma Minin - the baptized Tatar Kirisha Minibaev”. After perplexed calls to the authors of both materials, both Vladimir Makhnach and Sergey Baimukhametov stated that they did not speak and could not say anything like that. In the end, it turned out that “Tatarism” of Minin is the initiative of the editor of Ogonyok. It was alleged that, allegedly, in the editorial portfolio lay a certain article of a person from Nizhny Novgorod, most likely, a Tatar. In this article never seen by anyone, they say, evidence of the Tatar origin of Kuzma Minin was provided. The editors of Ogonyok decided to print it, and for a start they gave such an announcement. Further, the explanations took on an absolutely ridiculous character: they say that this article disappeared somewhere. For some strange reason, no one wrote down the name, surname, telephone address of the author.
          1. VALENOK
            0
            11 October 2011 19: 22
            Now no one 100 percent will establish a biography of Minin, but the very origin of the name Minin, Ankudinov says that he has Turkic roots
    3. Mahamont
      +1
      12 October 2011 04: 31
      Well, no, Christianity is just here, it was planted with fire and a sword. Orthodoxy is our faith, but not Christianity.
  4. 0
    11 October 2011 20: 38
    who is going to shah now?
  5. Sergh
    +1
    11 October 2011 20: 41
    Today we must carefully watch, observe and analyze where the wind is blowing from, how it started and how it ended. Well, draw conclusions!

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