Egypt's participation this year in the United Nations General Assembly is different from the previous years since Egypt is currently a non-permanent member of the Security Council. Furthermore, President al-Sisi is president of the African Council for peace and Security. This means that Egypt is representing countries in Africa and the Middle East. This means we have to support the president in his mission. It’s known that the Coptic church has always been a national one. Thus, Pope Tawadros decided to support the president in his visit to the UN. This is not new to the Pope who called the Copts in America to support the president.

Eng. Ibrahim Samak (his last name means fishes in Arabic) is a great Egyptian engineer who was Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the German President, Horst Köhler. The man refused to abandon his Egyptian citizenship and decided to join the scientific Advisory Board of the Egyptian president in order to help his country, and plans to make Egypt the first country in the world solar-powered and makes people produce energy from the panels on top of their homes and sell them to the government.

I read a statement to one of Coptic leaders in America in which he claimed that the president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is persecuting the Copts in Egypt. In fact he proved that some Egyptians can’t understand the situation in Egypt while they are far in the west. The situation in Egypt is not perfect, and we have too many problems including the officials who can’t deal with sectarian issues. We were hoping that the law of building churches would be better. Yet, we should realize that we have a law for building churches for the first time in history. Moreover, the current unlicensed churches are already licensed according to the law. The Copts are still suffering, but this doesn’t compare to the three years after the revolution of January 25, 2011. We still remember attacking and demolished several churches under the auspices of policemen. The great cathedral of St. Mark was attacked for the first time in history and thousands of terrorists were given the Egyptian citizenship by the former president Mohamed Morsy.

This week I resume the Egyptian Tradition as if part VI of last week was published but in fact this week's re-write of article Egyptian Traditions P VI of last week that unfortunately the program and my computer crashed and was lost, I could not even apologize via e-mail as Internet was on/off and my laptop keeps crashing and over hitting and very slow due to over hitting! Moreover, I had a copy on Drive One a network site offers free space to save files kind of backup but the site was down and since then this file is out of limits of free space offered and can not open, in brief I would say either that file has a virus or it is cursed!

From long time and our Coptic church involved by chance or by force in the Egyptian political scene, however, is this path will continue and is it in the interest of the church to be involved in the political scene always? The reason I open this subject now because I can’t imagine that our Coptic church to announce that she sent messenger to prepare for Al Sisi visit to New York. Not only the Coptic Church will send a messenger to the states but also the Anglican Church announced that it will send a priest to prepare to Al-Sisi visit.

Egypt is facing a fierce war, but it is not new, since Egypt has experienced all kinds of wars like economic blockade, tourism targeting, preventing the supply of arms, wars of rumors. This happened under the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mohd Anwar Sadat, and Mohamed Hosni Mubarak. However, these wars became slightly different under the rule of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi who faced more traitors on the inside including journalists, media and human rights activists. They complained the increasing prices like the poor, but received millions of dollars from foreign countries and organizations.

Egypt and the region is experiencing a critical moment during which we need to talk more than mobilization. We have to discuss our problems without imposing an opinion or guardianship of any party on the others. Coptic Christians have never carried weapons except against the foreign occupation. They care for their land before they think about their religion. Therefore, they are called Coptic Orthodox or Coptic Catholic, or Coptic Evangelist.

Over the past few days, I heard many statements concerning the four children accused of contempt of Islam and seeking asylum in Switzerland. The four children (Albert Shehata, Clinton Faraj Allah, Mueller Yassa, and Bassem Younan) had appeared in a video criticizing ISIS. However, those who support ISIS in Egypt decided to revenge for it by destroying theses children using the law of contempt of religion. This law that only punishes people for contempt of Islam since nobody was actually punished for contempt of Christianity. Nobody wants to stop those inciting hatred in our society.

I do not think that any president in Egypt has ruled Egypt with so many problems and crises like what we have today. During the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, the fascist religious regime that does not realize patriotism or belonging to the nation, Egypt was approaching a civil war that would divide the nation and destroy the rest of it.

The Egyptian economy suffers more from debts due to the borrowing policies that the government and the president tout lately. More debt means next generation will not have good future and they will be burden by how to pay all of these debts back in the future. The borrowing policies weren’t just from the international bank but also from the local banks. I can assure that the only people will get benefit from this debts are the rich people not the poor people.

On September 9th, the cultural circles all over the world celebrate the commemoration of the birth of the great Russian writer Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy was able to achieve great fame as thinker, philosopher and social reformer. He led many battles against wealth and feudalism and even the church. Despite his faith, he refused human mediation between man and God, and was punished by the church. He distributed his wealth on the poor, which caused many disputes between him and his wife.

As an Egyptian citizen, I feel that my developing country has a lot of work to do in order to develop, especially as the situation is too bad on many scales like economy, security and socially. Many resources are wasted in my country including the power of youth that we are in bad need to benefit from! We can’t build our country without achieving our unity. Yet, fanaticism hinders our steps and leads us to more vital losses and affects the sense of belonging to this country very badly. At the time we are in bad need to build our country, we are fighting to issue a law of building churches that tries to keep the Coptic Christians as suffering minority that struggles to achieve freedom of worship.

I don’t talk here about the reaction of the church when choosing to accept the new law of building churches. I’d rather talk about the role of the person or organization that knows how to play politics. In a meeting between this person or organization with the Salafis, they refused the law that was accepted by Abba Paula. Yet, they were told they can manipulate the draft later. After they did, the churches refused it, which strained the atmosphere even more. The same organization held meeting with the church representatives to tell them what happened and to offer a formula of compromise. This was the final law that was passed, but not accepted by the Salafis.

Dr. Ahmad Subhi Mansour says: "If Omar bin Khattab has not accepted to impose Jizya tax on Christians, they would have enjoyed equality with the Arabs. Yet Jizya was imposed on them proving they are less significant and second-class citizens. This was the beginning to persecute the Copts in Egypt. They were called Dhimmis, which became an insult for those who refused to convert to Islam. Christians in Syria, Iraq and Egypt have carried that description for centuries and suffered for long time because of it. Such despise for the Christians was legalized in Islamic holy books, even by false sayings of Prophet Mohammed.

In old times a mother's only job was to take care of her house meaning her husband and kids, they all needed food so she had to cook and this included lot of kitchen side work like washing dishes and sometimes she had to go in the market to buy vegetables and other cooking staff, she had as well keep every thing in the house clean clothes or bed shits carpets and the floor! Sometimes kids would help around as they grow but was not a must it was pure volunteer same holds with the husband some would help and it had nothing to do with men being overworked or tired, it was a pure affection and wanting to be part of his wife's life!

No doubt that the international visit is very important to any president and to any country seeks more development and more progress, however, the time of the visit is very important to be able to achieve what you aim at. Lately, President Sisi went to visit India which is something good in the long run, however, I can’t imagine that a president can go for a visit to India while the parents can’t find milk to their children. I believe that caring about what’s going inside Egypt should be our first priority not outside, especially in that critical time that Egypt suffer from many problems which affects the simple citizen.

There is a special relationship between the Holy Virgin Mary and our countries Egypt. St. Mary indeed loves our country and there are many historical evidence that proves it. His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria in his article "The Virgin Mary and Egypt" talks about three historical accounts that emphasize the close relationship between the Virgin Mary and Egypt. The first story happened in the first century when the angel said to Joseph: "Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I tell you” The trip was very tedious because of transportation. It took more than three years and the holy family blessed the land of Egypt!

A few years ago, the Paralympic Games were held in the US state of Seattle. 9 disabled people participated in the running race. The participants started to run, but a small one fall down and couldn’t complete the race, thus he started to cry out loud. The rest of the participants stopped to see what is happening. All of a sudden, they looked back and decided to go back and help the little boy.

The Wahhabi Salafist sectarian ideology affects the way of thinking of the Egyptian government that is supposed to be civilian. Therefore, the Coptic Christians are insulted and treated unequally with their fellow Muslim Egyptians. The bill of building houses of worship was replaced by the law of building churches, proving that the state can’t treat Muslims and Christians equally in their home country.

After the revolution of July 23, 1952, the headlines of newspapers called to trial those who used their influence and corrupted the political life. Newspapers called to deprive those of citizenship, political rights, and public jobs and compel them to return the money they took. The result was not quite good since corruption increased supported by the successive governments. The same calls were repeated after the revolutions of January 25. Major General Ahmed Abdel Halim, security expert, said that political corruption has a general definition which is violating legality in all its forms. This proves that having a definition for political corruption is very hard. However, we should not think about exceptional laws thinking this is the only way to fight corruption. We have committed this mistake after the retardation of 1967.