An Orthodox priest who doesn’t belong to the Coptic Church came to visit me. I discussed with him the crisis of not praying on dead couple in Minya since they are not Orthodox. Many people accused the Coptic church of being merciless. The old priest knew nothing about the debate. I asked him: “what will you do if somebody among your congregation dies after he left your church and joined another one. Then, his family asks you to pray in his funeral, would you? He said that he would pray for him at the funeral home or in his house, but not in my church. He added that he doesn’t condemn that person or claim he is going to hell or heaven, but it’s not fair to pray for him using prayers that he didn’t believe in during his life. This is how the church deals with those who refused her faith.
Police will always remain faithful and loyal, while the people are the sinners, criminals and traitors that don’t deserve protection of the police. This is how media always talk when it comes to comparison between police and the people. Police defend the people and the nation while the people are the one who gives up his dignity and even threatens the nation. Policemen are said in media to sacrifice their souls for the sake of the nation, while the people have never offered similar sacrifice for the nation.
In last week’s article Recalculation is a Must I pointed out conspiracies and stand by plan B and C up to Z if not going over to A1, B1... I pointed out that Mosad, CIA and MI6 joined forces to create that Islamic State to bring down that Soviet Union Empire that was a real threat to USA plans specially when they did try to invade Pakistan that was the starting point of the Saudi Arabia expelled prince Osama Bin Laden, that went to Pakistan in a so called warrior for freedom of Pakistan!
I remember I wrote an article one month ago about the violation that interior ministry does lately and that should stop by any way. I have mentioned that Sisi should play an important role in amending the interior ministry behaviour otherwise it means that he didn’t learn the lesson from the previous presidents. When a single behaviour repeated many times, it means we in front of a phenomenon that could cause a big problem not only to the regime but also for the whole society. The interior ministry which is supposed to be responsible for the security and let people feel safe become doing the opposite actions.
Egypt has always been under the control of a superpower. Muhammad Ali in the early nineteenth century admired the western civilization and decided to make Cairo like France. Khedive Ismail even named her France of the East. His successors followed this rule for a while until Egypt was occupied by Britain and became an English colony. Egypt embraced the European culture until the military coup on July 23, 1952. Abdel Nasser had intense hostility to the West and decided to put an end to such relation.
The third Gulf War became at hand, which reminds us of the second Gulf War and the end of Sadam Hussein. Such end that destroyed Iraq and divided its people and turned it to pastureland for the terrorists and led the Americans to occupy the gulf countries and its treasures. Kings of Wahhabism enslaved their people for years and imposed the Wahhabi identity on them. They used the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice gangs to ensure the loyalty of their people. They thought they will be able to buy the people.
God wants us to worship him with the spirit rather than words. Marriage in Christianity is based on unity among God, man and wife. However, committing adulatory may break such bond of marriage. Spiritual adulatory is considered by the church another reason to permit divorce which is converting to another religion. Other reasons to permit divorce are cheating and impotence. Jesus Christ, head of the church, put laws of love and mercy and gave the church the authority to follow that spirit. Prohibition of divorce may protect families and children from dispersion. Yet, divorce is a must in many cases like a spouse is drug addict or perverted and sexually harasses his daughters!
Egypt has always been under the control of a superpower. Muhammad Ali in the early nineteenth century admired the western civilization and decided to make Cairo like France. Khedive Ismail even named Cairo "France of the East". His successors followed this rule for a while until Egypt was occupied by Britain and became an English colony.
I promised last week to Explain why President miscalculated since when Egypt was targeted well he was too young to see and realize beyond the 6th. October 1973 events or even just like me then we all -Egyptians- saw in R.I.P. Nasser the Father of the nation (well that is what we were taught at schools then)! We all were too young to be able to see and analyse facts:- Here are the facts... 1. R.I.P Nasser was a student of Hassan El Bana 2. He and R.I.P Sadat were both members of the Muslim Brotherhood before being members of the Free Army Officers who mounted the revolution of 23rd.July 1952.
Yesterday all doctors held emergency assembly to express their anger from the police officer behaviour against them. I can’t blame Doctors to demonstrate and express their anger from such behaviours; however, I can’t accept also them to go in strikes. There are big difference between demonstrate and going in strikes. To demonstrate you will be able to express your anger and raise some signs can express your demands, at the same time after you demonstrate you will back to your work and see your patients.
Egyptian anchor Amr Adib showed images of Egyptian pupils in the fifties of the last century comparing them to recent images of other students. He was wondering: What is happening in Egypt! I can tell him. The revolution of July 1952 decided to impose the Arab identity of Egypt and incited hatred against Israel. Then, Israel burned the Egyptian airports, soldiers and armored vehicles. The 1952 revolution turned the Egyptian economy into a war economy that the Egyptian citizen is still paying for. Sadat and Mubarak sold Egypt to the Saudi regime and the Wahabbi ideology.
The Egyptian president is full of love for his homeland and people. His behaviors are close to idealism. The Egyptian president knows the problems of the nation and works hard to overcome them. He dreams of a powerful, developed and civilized Egypt. Many projects are being planned for by the president in order to raise standard of living of the people. He really believes in equal citizenship, and doesn’t differentiate between a Muslim and a Christian citizen. He declared the importance of building churches in new cities along with mosques.
The failure of Egyptian interior ministry led the president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to launch an initiative that revealed weakness of the state. Such initiative to negotiate with a group that was named terrorist by the judiciary! Police can’t deal with the Ultras during the matches. I can’t believe our police is not able to even secure a football matches with audiences! Interior ministry insists on embarrassing the regime and makes it look bad. Consider the police statement about the dead Italian young man. It’s likely that his death was planned and even carried out by the interior ministry. They insist on ruining the regime!
Be careful if you’re willing to criticize ISIS since it became a crime in Minya where extremists sued four Coptic children under 15 in Beni Mazar village in Minya governorate in order to terrorize their families. The cause of action here is a 20 seconds video that was filmed as a joke after the slaughter of 21 Copts by ISIS in Libya.
I was not in vacation - how can a retired person be in vacation? - but after my short visit to my second home land Antigua I feel like if I was in vacation that ended before I realize, what a shame, but well that is life! After 2 weeks of missing my weekly article -not intentional but I might write about it sometime in the future- I feel like back in life, it has become like a habit with a difference; how come? Well at old times I remember -R.I.P.- my mother used in quite moments when she was free for herself and not to think or do household duties like cleaning, ironing, cooking or taking care of other duties she would go for her notebook; It was her diaries, writing down what had happened that day and her own thoughts of the events,almost all that was strictly personal and top secret no one had the right to read them, but as a nosy person I did, well it was after she died but still I breached her privacy and sorry for that!
After the death of the Italian young man in Egypt and found his body in Alex highway, there are many questions we need to ask about the security procedures that taken place in Egypt and who is responsible for all forced disappearance we read every day. I believe that all of these accidents are connected somehow, and what lead me to get this conclusion that all these accidents happens almost in the same way.
Real Christians understand that Christian unity should be the greatest testimony to the message of Christ who said that he wants his disciples to be one. All Christian denominations share the same Christ. Such unity is a great factor to make the people all over the world believe in the message of Christ and his atoning work on the cross. The lack of Christian unity hinders the love of God to his people. Unity is a heavenly gift that increases through thanks. Real love can be revealed among Christian denomination through such unity. Christ came from heaven to save us. His love became the new law. This is Christianity that we should know. All of us are one in Christ. Rituals and traditions are useful in case they are used to glorify God and not to divide Christ.
Sheikh of Al-Azhar belongs to ISIS and President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi belongs to the Salafis. Both of them adopt the same ideology in one way or another. They indeed adopted the Wahabbism and participated in the greater project to convert Egypt into an Islamic state. This was crystal clear when several thinkers and intellectuals were arrested including Islam Behiry and Fatima Naaot…etc. I’m sure there are other names waiting on the list like Dr. Sayyed Qimni and the journalist Ibrahim Issa.
He stands alone in front of the White House holding a sign that says “I participated in the revolution of January 25â€. He knows how much this sign will affect those working in that house. Those who planned to use the revolution to bring certain people to power in Egypt led them to prisons and not to the presidential palace. Their failure became their friend and coworker in the prison. They must hate the people who overthrew them, I mean the Egyptian people.
I write today about what happened in January 25, 1951. On that day, several Egyptian police officers gathered in the city of Ismailia governorate administrative building, and decided to face seven thousand English soldiers who were armed with tanks, armored vehicles and guns. The Egyptians were less than 800 soldiers with old guns. Commander of British forces ordered them to surrender and to hand over their weapons and withdraw from the Canal Zone. He threatened to demolish the building on their heads like they had just blown up 156 houses in Kafr Ahmed Abdu in Suez in response to guerrilla operations. Junior officers agreed not to surrender and not to hand over their weapons for the English army. They decided to stand a chance until the final breath knowing they fight an unequal battle and they are most likely to die. The senior officers, Muslims and Christians, took the same decision and took an oath to fight till the end.
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First, I offer my sincere condolences to the martyrs who shed their pure blood as a result of the vicious terrorist act that targeted the Petrine Church in Cairo.