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Hope, our strength for the future.

Ezzat Boulos

Opinion

14:12

Thursday ,24 December 2009

Hope, our strength for the future.

A month ago, in the same place I wrote an article entitled," have we reach the end of our road!", I made many questions to the readers trying with them to find out new techniques to find a remedy to the direct and the indirect reasons lead to the increase of sectarian tension in Egypt., the tension that fires all the Christians and those of the religious minorities and also those of the other communities in a society where the Muslim Sunni are the majority, in our search for new mechanisms to work out so I will not neglect my reader to evaluate the old mechanisms that have been totally used up. 
Really I was amazed and felt happy with the contributions of some readers to our electronic page, in Egypt and abroad, even with the difference of the solution presented to the status-quo but all were in the hope for a treatment and without frustrations to continue a through search for citizenship for all the Egyptians. This trend of hope confirmed, to me, that the way for a better future of our country is hindered but never blocked out.

There was a full voting for transferring all the conference on the violations over the Copts in Egypt, to be held in Egypt is," in vain", someone described this step as," a trap", for those who will held it as a result of the security pressure on them, so and for fear of," the misunderstanding", of the inside of Egypt those people went far beyond to speak about globalizing the Copts' case and show the shameful violations taking place in Egypt to be presented to  international courts through a legal foundation to carry on this task after a voting for those who would like to finance this initiative……. I agree with those who agreed on holding these lawful conferences in Egypt instead of holding it outside Egypt being aware of the obstacles to be imposed by the security over those who will organize it but in the same time I find no promising outcomes of holding these conferences abroad.  
 
This mechanism has played a good role in the near past but it is not suitable nowadays according to the data of the status-quo that could deepen the idea about the," isolation", of the Christians to consider the violations over them as an interior affair and not a failure article enrolled under the title of the ill application of citizenship principal in Egypt,
As these conferences focus on some specific persons working in the field of social services, attending these conference each in his turn and using papers that became readable out of the many times of repetitions to the same content, it became a room for us to express our sorrows, if I may say, although these rooms give those speakers some rest out of releasing their rage and tension, 
 
But it adds nothing to those feeling sorry for the collapse happened to Citizenship in Egypt, to those who has the right to express their anger as citizens against all the ill practices over them, the religious discrimination that violates clearly and directly all their rights on purpose, to declare their refusal is possible, as I see, through using all the ways for objection inside or outside Egypt, after the hint made by Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League to resort to the international courts to show the crisis that is so called," the crisis of the minarets in Switzerland", Must keep silent all those ignorant who described the ones who resort to the international legal foundations to show the violations on citizenship in Egypt and describe them as traitors and spies. 
Many people expressed that they like the work done by the Copt activists of the Diaspora, they confirmed that Egypt has many successful sons in the Diaspora in different fields, but some expressed their sorrow about the differences among those activists …here I find no comment but just I confirm that these idle differences create happiness among those who make way for the false accusations to those Copts of the Diaspora saying , look at those calling for the rights quarreling for leadership and media authority.  
 
But for the church and how far people agree on its role in the life of the Christian man is far more important than its traditional religious role, it is an idea that created differences as a sensitive issue to an extent that I would not be able to identify any tendency among those participants, those who refuse any role for the church other than its religious role, they support their views saying that this policy adopts trends that don't cope with what is the clergyman should be, a politician may lie or deceive, so how it is possible for a clergymen to carry out all this task then leads his people in prayers and getting closer to God!! 
Those who support many other roles to be played by their church, the religious role is one of them, saying this as coping with the trend o f the theology of liberation that, as they ay, came over the contradiction between the ways for calling for the rights and sticking to the religious teachings, they mention that those Christians of Egypt lived long inside the walls of their church
 
So getting to the outer world needs a strong push by the clergymen themselves to those not daring sons….here specifically I find myself unable to be with or against the role of the church in the daily life with untraditional roles, for my faith that this issue is out of the black and white, the church played or forced to play a role that is far beyond its religious role after the state's neglect to play that role, so it is not possible to push the church to let off its hand from supporting its children but we could encourage the church to help them for a full integration in life in Egypt, to bear the price of this integration, and to cross its dangers away from the protection of the mother church. 
The internet as one of the most important tools of the revolution in communications technology nowadays, considered by many readers as a means to create a public opinion inside and outside Egypt, especially it doesn't work according to the measures and the limits made over  the media in Egypt, so it has the power to show the violations happening to the religious minorities in Egypt, the first are the Christians of Egypt….. 
 

I agree with those people in the view that the internet managed to arise issues that were kept blocked for long decades in Egypt, I can say that the internet excelled the papers to affect a big sector, but still the media is still the fastest and the nearest to the receiver inside and outside Egypt, so I wonder why the Christian satellite channels don't extend in the material to be broadcasted in issues out of the issues of faith, this extension would not be a negative thing but a good use of the media coverage filled with lies from the other side represented by the official media or the media run by those ill minded people following their faith but not Egypt. 
 
 
The political parties were in all contributions described as," cartoon boxes", without any value in the political life in Egypt so they see that the Christians or the Muslims should not exert any effort inside these parties.
I don't agree on this view as what we refuse should not be left over, or it is enough to repeat the negatives of it, we must intervene strongly trying to change, this is more positive and gives us good results for the future we all hope it a bright future for our mother country Egypt.  
 
 So out of a deep belief of the importance that every one should participate according to his belief in these political parties so and through our page in," Copts United", with the beginning of the new year to reintroduce the programs of the political parties in Egypt, we will show the way of how to take part in these parties, in addition to the NGOs that could push forward our youth to get out of their narrow circle of interest of their faith to a more wide circle which is the care for the people of Egypt.
The way for the better future would not be with one click on the button of the political participation, we need to work more inside the society in different fields without being tired or desperation to reach the destination where we would like our country to be. 
 By the end, I would not forget to thank all those who sent their contributions on the e-mail, I would like to end with the best of the words sent to me by an old friend, the words given by Dag Hammershold, the ex UN secretary general," when the fresh early morning is replaced by the tiredness of the afternoon, when the leg muscles shiver out of tiredness, when the way up seems without an end, when everything appears as not what you want …then you should stop".