Lets play a game of pin the tail on the dhimmi!
The Nazarist Spirit
The term Nazarist comes from Muslims linking Jesus’ birthplace in Nazareth, Palestine to Christians all over the Middle East. It isn’t a term that invokes violence but one that fights in a peaceful way for the inalienable rights of man. Nazarists have no need for violence like their predecessors in the past (Hizb al-Umma al Qubtiyah), who in 1954 in the face of Islamic extremism kidnapped Pope Amba Usab and made him abdicate for his ‘nonchalant’ stance over rising discrimination against Copts. Although President Nasser disbanded this group by heavy force, the dream of a pan-Arab Christian group of lawyers, professionals, doctors, teachers and engineers working hand in hand to fight against injustice that many of our brothers and sisters deal with everyday, remains on the collective conscience of many.
You won’t find the term on google.com or even copts.net, it is a term that is close for all Christians in the Middle East.
Egypt
Immortal Egypt.
Egypt today isn’t the same as it was in the past; with rising unemployment and low foreign investment many Egyptians suffer even to have basic commodities that make us human. Unfortunately, the battle on the street for the hearts and minds of the Egyptian people isn’t about unemployment but about Islam. Extremists like the Muslim Brotherhood have brought the Islamist dialogue to the forefront of the National agenda, but fortunately for us they now use in their demonstrations ‘token’ phrases like “the Copts are the Sons of Egypt too.”
Why hasn’t a Coptic organization risen up to defend the rights of Copts and other Christians in Egypt?
There needs to be a new organization to promote the rights of the Copts because our church is to busy pleasing the government and trying to keep the Coptic community aboard silent to do anything else. In an interview with Pope Shenouda, a question was posed asking him whether it is acceptable for a Copt to run for the President of Egypt against incumbent President Mubarak, our holiness replied that “the President should represent the religion of the majority.”
With this kind of talk, we don’t need the Muslim Brotherhood or the ‘tolerant’ Egyptian government to limit the inalienable rights of the Copts. Our dreams are being inhibited by our Pope and our history denied from the public schools. We can’t build churches legally without papers from governors, police chiefs, presidents and even chief engineers but increasingly our churches are being surrounded on all sides by mosques. There are no Coptic ambassadors, even though there are more Copts outside Egypt than Muslims. No deans, syndicate leaders or even elected parliament represented are Copts. We have to depend on his grace Mubarak to give us a few seats in the Parliament.
Aren’t we Egyptians?
Unfortunately, we are complacent in being dhimmis. It’s sad that our government says we are less than 10% of the population yet we are more around 15-20 percent. Our church is so afraid of having a census that we have denied ourselves our right to join the political process, in so doing we have denied a part of humanity.
What about Neguib Sawiris or other successful Coptic businessmen?
President Nasser’s attempt to destroy the ‘corrupt’ upper classes caused many industrialists to lose their businesses, including a great number of Coptic entrepreneurs who controlled approximately 45% of Egypt’s economy. Arab Socialism was really a guise to transfer the wealth from the wealthy to the lower classes, but with an Islamist agenda. Following the revolution, many Egyptians transferred their wealth abroad. Presently this amount equals more than 150 billion dollars, which could help the economy grow if democracy and property rights were introduced. Sawiris got lucky; no doubt having a large wealth outside helped him get back on his feet when he went to Libya then America. The Coptic businessmen bounced back but political reforms must come forward in order for Egypt to join the developed world.
Egypt in the Past
It ceases to surprise me that instead of going forward, Egypt is instead going back to the medieval ages thanks to the Islamist agenda. Whatever happened to the March 1919 demonstrations that united all Egyptians under the flag of the Crescent and Cross?
“Leave Religion for God! Egypt for the Egyptians!”
With the Copts silent and progressive Muslims murmuring quietly all is lost. Silence is the enemy and currently we are losing the war. Egypt needs to improve; denying mistakes and problems only creates more problems in the future. Ordinary Egyptians must rise up in an organized manner with concrete goals of reform instead of demanding the resignation of the president or ministers.
Coptic Links
I know this website is a joke, but it’s so cool
http://www.amcoptic.com/
The term Nazarist comes from Muslims linking Jesus’ birthplace in Nazareth, Palestine to Christians all over the Middle East. It isn’t a term that invokes violence but one that fights in a peaceful way for the inalienable rights of man. Nazarists have no need for violence like their predecessors in the past (Hizb al-Umma al Qubtiyah), who in 1954 in the face of Islamic extremism kidnapped Pope Amba Usab and made him abdicate for his ‘nonchalant’ stance over rising discrimination against Copts. Although President Nasser disbanded this group by heavy force, the dream of a pan-Arab Christian group of lawyers, professionals, doctors, teachers and engineers working hand in hand to fight against injustice that many of our brothers and sisters deal with everyday, remains on the collective conscience of many.
You won’t find the term on google.com or even copts.net, it is a term that is close for all Christians in the Middle East.
Egypt
Immortal Egypt.
Egypt today isn’t the same as it was in the past; with rising unemployment and low foreign investment many Egyptians suffer even to have basic commodities that make us human. Unfortunately, the battle on the street for the hearts and minds of the Egyptian people isn’t about unemployment but about Islam. Extremists like the Muslim Brotherhood have brought the Islamist dialogue to the forefront of the National agenda, but fortunately for us they now use in their demonstrations ‘token’ phrases like “the Copts are the Sons of Egypt too.”
Why hasn’t a Coptic organization risen up to defend the rights of Copts and other Christians in Egypt?
There needs to be a new organization to promote the rights of the Copts because our church is to busy pleasing the government and trying to keep the Coptic community aboard silent to do anything else. In an interview with Pope Shenouda, a question was posed asking him whether it is acceptable for a Copt to run for the President of Egypt against incumbent President Mubarak, our holiness replied that “the President should represent the religion of the majority.”
With this kind of talk, we don’t need the Muslim Brotherhood or the ‘tolerant’ Egyptian government to limit the inalienable rights of the Copts. Our dreams are being inhibited by our Pope and our history denied from the public schools. We can’t build churches legally without papers from governors, police chiefs, presidents and even chief engineers but increasingly our churches are being surrounded on all sides by mosques. There are no Coptic ambassadors, even though there are more Copts outside Egypt than Muslims. No deans, syndicate leaders or even elected parliament represented are Copts. We have to depend on his grace Mubarak to give us a few seats in the Parliament.
Aren’t we Egyptians?
Unfortunately, we are complacent in being dhimmis. It’s sad that our government says we are less than 10% of the population yet we are more around 15-20 percent. Our church is so afraid of having a census that we have denied ourselves our right to join the political process, in so doing we have denied a part of humanity.
What about Neguib Sawiris or other successful Coptic businessmen?
President Nasser’s attempt to destroy the ‘corrupt’ upper classes caused many industrialists to lose their businesses, including a great number of Coptic entrepreneurs who controlled approximately 45% of Egypt’s economy. Arab Socialism was really a guise to transfer the wealth from the wealthy to the lower classes, but with an Islamist agenda. Following the revolution, many Egyptians transferred their wealth abroad. Presently this amount equals more than 150 billion dollars, which could help the economy grow if democracy and property rights were introduced. Sawiris got lucky; no doubt having a large wealth outside helped him get back on his feet when he went to Libya then America. The Coptic businessmen bounced back but political reforms must come forward in order for Egypt to join the developed world.
Egypt in the Past
It ceases to surprise me that instead of going forward, Egypt is instead going back to the medieval ages thanks to the Islamist agenda. Whatever happened to the March 1919 demonstrations that united all Egyptians under the flag of the Crescent and Cross?
“Leave Religion for God! Egypt for the Egyptians!”
With the Copts silent and progressive Muslims murmuring quietly all is lost. Silence is the enemy and currently we are losing the war. Egypt needs to improve; denying mistakes and problems only creates more problems in the future. Ordinary Egyptians must rise up in an organized manner with concrete goals of reform instead of demanding the resignation of the president or ministers.
Coptic Links
I know this website is a joke, but it’s so cool
http://www.amcoptic.com/
posted by Koptikjihad at
8:57 PM
4 Comments:
really excellent article man u r different
- We are dhimmis? I doubt.
Dhimmis don’t have the right/duty to join the army, and in return pay an extra tax for protection. Copts join the army and don’t pay extra taxes. I don’t say “la vie en rose”, but the word dhimmi has a definition that simply doesn’t apply on our situation.
- There is more Copts outside Egypt than Muslims?
How did you get this piece of information? Maybe you mean that in the Egyptian community abroad, Copts are overrepresented; I mean have a higher percentage compared to there percentage in Egypt. Even this is an intuition, can be true or false.
- “Our government says we are less than 10% of the population yet we are more around 15-20 percent”!
I never heard our government say how many Christians are there and in what percentage and you have no proof that we are around 15-20%. In Egyptian census data, religion is not taken into account. It is very easy to get an official number because it is already included in the national number data (el rakam el kawmi), you just click the button and the number is shown on the screen, but the government doesn’t want to know or to reveal this official number. I think there is a fear of knowing because the number will be too high in eyes of those who want Egypt to have the image of a purely Muslim country and too low for those who want to have the image of a county made up of two elements (3onsoray el umma). The implications of knowing such a number are too risky and the government is not willing to take such a risk for the time being. I understand this governmental position, but not necessarily agree with it.
We may be less than 5%, or maybe more than 25%, it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that every Egyptian person has to have equal rights regardless of his attributes.
We may agree that there are problems, but it is really important to review how we define the problems before proposing solutions. I believe that problems related to Christians in Egypt are not independent problems but only symptoms of bigger problems facing the whole society: problems of rights, citizenship, democracy … If we propose solutions to symptoms, it won’t work on the long run, but if we solve the general problems, symptoms will disappear automatically.
Did you read this petition? Do you agree with it? Did you sign it?
you're totally right M.Y...it's not perfect in Egypt for Christians, but hatred and fact twisting never got anyone anywhere.
fuck that shit about fact twisting...go fuck CAIR
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