With the spread of Human Rights centers, a center has been established, calling for National Unity, headed by the known Coptic lawyer Maurice Sadek, one of the most prominent Christian leaders working in the field of human rights. He was known for his defense of the Tala’i al-Fath group. He was the first Coptic lawyer to defend an Islamic militant group.
During the four years since the establishment of the center Maurice Sadek was able to issue two large reports on violations against Coptic citizens. He mentioned events that we have never heard of or heard of differently from the way he had reported. The report was published in both English and Arabic. In addition to the reports Sadek has also issues hundreds of statements to blow up on certain issues. Sadek’s reports record imaginary events and aim to purposely change facts.
As an example of these reports and statements issued by Sadek, there was a case with a statement about Mary Fekri Maggar an Egyptian Copt, saying that she seeks to emigrate from Egypt because she is facing religious persecution, and it is ironic that Sadek is the one who pushed her to apply for immigration.
After we referred back to the person involved in this famous complaint, she revealed the falsifications of this statement. Saying that she had met with Maurice Sadek, the lawyer by coincidence and had asked him on the possibilities of her receiving an immigration request to America. He asked her to come over to his office, and he filled in a form for immigration, after which she surprisingly discovered his statement alleging her persecution.
Another platen case was what was mentioned in his 1996 report, about the journalist Nagy William. The report claimed that the journalist faced persecution in the Al-Ahrar newspaper after the resignation of the editor in chief Mustafa Bakri. The report assured that William is persecuted because he is a Christian.
What is weird about this incident, is that what had happened in Al-Ahrar after Bakri’s resignation was known for all. A number of Muslim reporters were also fired and this was never religiously interpreted.
Noting the activities of the Maurice Sadek center we find him co-operating and coordinating with the Ibn Khaldoun center, whom together they hold a number of seminars and conferences, the latest of which was the conference of religions, races, and ethnicity (Which was similar to the dubious minorities conference!)
Away from many rumors Sadek’s ideas depends on dealing with Egypt’s Copt’s as persecuted religious minorities, and the Egyptian history is full of incidents of Coptic persecution. This was highlighted in his book titled ’Copt’s and Rulers’ which dealt with history of Copt’s in Egypt since the Coptic state in the year 48 AD, when Christianity spread in Egypt by St. Marc the Apostle. This book purposely highlights periods
where problems between Muslim’s and Copt’s have appeared under the Islamic rule. However, the book denies that Copt’s lived a democratic era under this Islamic rule, except for a very brief period in which Arm Ibn Al-A’as ruled until the succession of Ali Ibn Abi Taleb.
Following this period Sadek assures in his book that from the beginning of the Umayad era (661 AD-750 AD) a period of around one hundred years witnessed religious persecution of Christians, which pushed the Copt’s to revolt and ended by inviting trusted Arab tribes to come and replace Christian indigenous inhabitants. (This is very funny.. The Arab tribes are to come in and replace the Christian inhabitants).
With these ideas and others, Sadek raised the slogan of Human rights to defend Copt’s in Egypt, also with these ideas he supported the religious persecution law issued by the Americans to serve their own interests in putting pressure on non-conformist countries. He did not only support this law but re-called it the religious freedoms law, describing it as
the protector of minorities world wide and especially in Egypt.
He also called for the return of the religious freedoms law promulgated by the Khedive Ismail in the year 1856, to satisfy the British and French, although this law dedicated 25% of the public positions and 10% of Military colleges for the Copt’s. Which means that this law affirms them being a minority, which is what is unaccepted historically by Egyptians.
Among the ideas propagated by Sadek’s center in International congregations is his demand to appoint Pope Shenouda as the republics Vice-President, appointing one of the Christian prominent figures to be Prime Minister and appointing a number of Christian governors, in addition to the post of Minister of Justice.
The center also demands the dedication of 50 electoral centers for Christians to guarantee that 100 of the people’s assembly members would represent the Copt’s.
What is weird is that these ideas have been registered by Maurice Sadek in the United Nations as demand of Egyptian Copt’s, and have been published by him in International Human Rights Charters. As for his opinion on Copt’s abroad he sees them as being citizens loyal to Egypt and to their persecuted families inside Egypt. He blessed the formation of a federal European-American-Canadian-Australian institute specialized
in defending Egypt’s Copt’s from abroad.
From this point of view Sadek considers Copt’s abroad as the protective shield for the Copt’s in Egypt, since their potentials and capabilities give them the right to address the UN and world public opinion.
Finally, Maurice Sadek announced his approval on Congress member’s intervention in Egypt’s affairs especially in the incident of Al-Kushh village. Sadek welcomed the initiatives that were announced by 26 Congress members in appealing letters sent to President Mubarak as well as those of the British House of Lords and House of Commons.
When we criticized this opinion and considered this a form of intervention in our internal affairs, Sadek said "The scream of the Congress members for what is happening in Egypt is their right, from a human rights and international Charters perspective, it is the right of defense guaranteed for all."
