We can be against the United States, as we want. We all don’t like some of their policies towards the world. We all don’t like the States supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, which we believe helped Egypt go backwards as a result. Despite all of the previously mentioned, we respect the States because it is a country that follows the law and applies it to its citizen without any discrimination.
Let’s take a look at the news, which was published a few days ago throughout Egypt and the world by the media. Here is the link from the most famous Egyptian website: http://www.almasryalyoum.com/node/1656881
We might read the news and pass it as something normal, but comparing what we see in Egypt, we shouldn’t. The news simply mentions that the court sentenced an American man to 20 years in jail because he tried to burn a mosque in the States (Ohio). We have to read carefully. The news says the man tried to burn a mosque, which means he couldn’t burn it, because the police wouldn’t wait for him but took him to court.
So if this man is 20 years old, at least, it means he will get out of prison when he’s 40 years old. Can you imagine the cruelty of that sentence? Can you imagine a country like the States suffering from Islamic extremism and still defending the culture of tolerance!! Furthermore, still applying the law on all people in an equal way.
The question here is: what if Egypt was a country of law like the States? Do you think if Egypt was fair just one time and applied the law as it is, we would see a church burned every month? How would the case for the Copts suffering against violence and unfair trials in the court change?
Can you imagine if that was the case in Egypt, and everyone who burned a church or a mosque would receive 20 years in jail? I believe that only until we have a unified law that most of our problems will be solved.
I believe that most of the sectarian events that happen in Egypt are because of a lack in law, because no one goes to the court after every crime against the church or against the Copts.
From this news I have mentioned above, we should ask the people in power right now is the law is the main keyword to solve most of the sectarian events here in Egypt? If you applied the law once, the sectarian events will be on a minimum range. Will we be able to see the law in Egypt soon or it will continue to be a minor detail?
