Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

As parties and political movements are rolling up their sleeves for the People's Assembly and Shūrá Council elections late this year, talk never stops about Copts' participation, now that the Egyptian Constitution does not discriminate between one citizen and another on the basis of religion, color or sex.

Dālyā Mujāhid, the former advisor to United States President Barack Obama, said that the U.S. ideology about Islam did not change much since 9/11 attacks regardless of the passage of time.

She added that there are anti-Islam campaigns and a lot of Americans feel even worse about Islam.

All Egyptians requested that Maurice Sādiq be stripped of his Egyptian citizenship. This man, as Shihātah Salāmah puts it, has a Zionist orientation, American loyalty, and extreme hatred for Egypt.

Sādiq described Sharon and Netanyahu as heroes who freed their country. Furthermore, he greeted Israel on their independence day and called on them to get rid of Arabs.

In addition, he demanded that Egypt be invaded in order to convert it to a Coptic State, calling for Egypt to be prevented access to the Nile water, and defamed the Prophet and the Sahābah.

The author refers to a new kind of sectarian fitnah at Facebook where some extremist Islamist young men created a group and called on Muslims to take to the streets in protests to call for dismissing Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III.

Although the group failed and disappeared, there was a Coptic reaction by creating a similar group to vigorously defend the pope.

The report of human development in 2010 brings to light the ideological attitudes of Egyptian youth who prefer to participate in religious parties rather than the political ones.

The author believes that church practices some forms of blackmail against the state to achieve some needs.

Muslim Brotherhood youths held a meeting in the absence of the leaders of the MB Irshād (Guidance) office, for which they prepared 12 recommendations.

While some of the weekly Egyptian publications continue to offer extensive opinion pieces about the Alexandria church attack, instances of such opinions decreased noticeably in the daily papers...

According to ‘Azmī, "The Muslim Brotherhood has emerged empty-handed from the marathon of the parliamentary elections, just as expected."

"Far from the reasons the Brotherhood media machine is giving for their parliamentary lapse," says ‘Azmī, " is the performance of the Brotherhood MP's in the last legislative session, which exposes the real reasons for their loss."

According to the author, the defeat has "revealed an acute weakness in vision and fact-evaluation on the part of the group's leaders."