As Egypt is looking for better future hoping that the best is yet to come, some senior officials insist on keeping retardation as pure Egyptian slogan. Governor of Minya supported the prevention of Copts in Forn village from praying claiming that the majority of Muslims refuse it! This governor indeed doesn t realize he lives in the year 2017 where his statements were published minutes later before the whole world. Such statements can have very bad impact on the image of Egypt abroad and on tourism industry as well.
This reminded me of The Little Prince, Frank Vercauteren, the Belgian football manager who agreed to train the famous Egyptian team Zamalek, but declined in the last minute after hearing horrible stories about prosecution of Copts in Egypt according to the president of Zamalek Mortada Mansour.
Egypt is a great country and its people used to have great religious tolerance, but their morals have been affected over years by extremist religious leaders and foreign plans to divide the country. We are not only talking here about the importance of religious discourse, but also law enforcement so that we don t hear another senior official defending the right of extremists to prevent prayers of Christians in their own country.
