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21. Black day for civil state: MB, Copts…hand in hand to burn Egypt down

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Year: 
2011
Week: 
48
Article number: 
21
Article pages: 
11
Date of source: 
December 1, 2011
Author: 
Muhammad Sha'bān
Reviewer: 
‘Amr al-Misrī
Article summary: 

As all national powers had a firm stand to support Copts' rights in shaping the future of Egypt along with their Muslim brothers after all the seeds of division sowed by the dissolved National Democratic Party, Copts and the Muslim Brotherhood preferred to be in an alliance together in order to burn Egypt down.

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The two sides have found the game of the 1970s an easy way to attract supporters and collect votes and to hell with Egypt. It was the same game that put Egypt on the brink of civil war a few months before President Anwar al-Sādāt was assassinated.

Hāfiz Abū Si'dah, Secretary-General of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), said the Muslim Brotherhood and the church have opened the doors wide for turning the elections into a sectarian conflict driven by religious fanaticism.

Coptic thinker Jamāl As'ad said the parliamentary elections have revealed anew that the struggle has surfaced once again between theocracy and civil state. "Unfortunately, this sectarian polarization appeared in the March 19 referendum over constitutional amendment and the political powers were too absorbed into political wrangling to take heed of the Muslim Brotherhood," he said.

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