Even Christians targeted in the Middle East, this time in Egypt. After Baghdad, Alexandria. An attack announced that reveals how the Christian presence in the universe of the Crescent is increasingly at risk. The Benedict XVI stressed again and reported that Napolitano spoke of persecution: a bloody persecution that threatens one of the most basic human rights, freedom of worship.A drama of which should bear the entire international community. Especially the Muslim countries should do so that they have inside religious minorities. Pena a terrible religious homogenization, which will arise, inevitably, new conflicts and tensions. The Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda, had already threatened the Copts, who are accused of preventing the conversion to Islam for two women in their communities.
As often happens in the Nile country, attacks and sectarian clashes that disturb the balance, have strong repercussions on the stability of the regime. Mubarak says he is convinced that the hand is "foreign", a term that the universe of the Crescent, means Al Qaeda. Attribution of responsibility that allows Egypt to allay the suspicion that not everything works in terms of security.
While, after the harsh repression that followed the attack against Sadat, in 1981, did the founding act of jihad and the recent fires in the late nineties against tourists, the situation seemed, despite the attacks in Sinai, in some way under control. The attack on the Church of Saints questions this reassuring image.
Although the hand was "foreign" word has no meaning for a movement like Al Qaeda that refers to trans-national ideology, it is possible that those who have acted had strong local complications. An attack that also concerned the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian Islamist organization stronger, hostile to Al Qaeda and the galaxy who believe that the radical neo-traditionalist movement via a 'wait and sue.
The Brotherhood, subject to competition from new fields radicals who seek to undermine the weight of melody to the armed jihad, condemned the attack in Egypt, both with its Palestinian branch of Hamas. The target of the attack is to attack Christians, held the fifth column of the 'crusading West "but also exploding sectarian clashes between Christians and Muslims.
Prospect that would undermine the stability of the regime, forced, if the incidents were not truncated in the bud, to "choose" a group at the expense of the confessional. A tragic dilemma that Mubarak wants to escape. Why siding with the Muslim majority means accentuate tensions with the more than six million Christians, to damage relations with the Vatican and the powerful American Coptic diaspora.
But take the part of the Copts, would mean legitimizing the accusation that the Islamists turn to the regime to be indifferent to the 'arrogance' of Christian dhimmis still statutorily protected, which they believe should be subject to the dominant religion: the radicals them consider, instead, only the "infidels" by pressing the pedal crackdown on "extremists on both sides, present in both communities, the scheme could eventually appear" neutral "with respect to the religious question, further reducing the power of consent, child Die secular and nationalist groups that some Muslims consider as illegitimate product of ideologies imported from the West.
The Coptic question, then, is a litmus test of the mood and the balance of the country. It is no coincidence that at the end of the seventies, is just to trigger sectarian clashes that spiral that will lead to the death of the apprentice sorcerer Sadat. The rais customs clearance as a function of the Islamist movement fighting against the left Nasserian but the escape of hand, and soon became the protagonist of sectarian clashes.
The Islamic awakening, the process of cross ricomunitarizzazione identity based on religion of the Copts, who have different reasons: the economic policies Nasserites and force secular and educated middle class to emigrate en masse, especially in the U.S., supporting the weight of the clergy, the pan-Arabism of the socialist regime that marginalizes them.
Serious incidents broke out in 1980 in Asyut in Middle Egypt, the Christian area at high level among the youth of the Jama'at and the "Nazarene", as they call them radical Islamists who favor the fight to the faithful of the Cross rather than against the "regime wicked ", after yet another piece of news that involves members of both communities.
Accidents resulted in the crisis between Sadat and the then "daddy" Shenouda Coptic, which denounces the lack of protection of his coreligionists. In turn, the Islamists accuse the president of failing to put the Christians in their place. " Shenouda also orders the "strike" of the celebration of Easter.
In 1981, new incidents explode in Cairo, called on the regime of the Jama'at choose sides and Sadat meets liquidation. Reaction to the wing of Al Jihad Asyut would attack the Copts but that Cairo is now focused on the assassination attempt on Sadat. The memory of these events is still alive in Egypt, partly because many of their protagonists, from Mubarak to Zawahiri are still at the scene.
The attack raised in Alexandria, then, old ghosts and never dormant.
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