We blamed Algerians for attacking Egyptian football team fans in Sudan, we described them evils, uncivilized, savages, killers, and more, TV shows and news papers talked about that for several days and show us how our people were terrified in Sudan and had a very terrible time; and thank God nobody was killed some injuries and delay in returning trips.

Yesterday (01/06/2010) was the Orthodox Christmas eve, and Copts always go to churches at night to attend feast celebration and sermonies, so yesterday after Copts left the church at Nagaa Hamadi in Egypt they were attacked by their neighbors Muslim Egyptians and instead of saying Merry Christmas and throwing flower and roses they threw bullets and fear; result was about 6 dead Christians plus church guard, many injuries (21 Christians according to news) and I would say terrible night, and according to news too Bishop Kirrolos was targeted by the attack also. Egypt government says it is response for a Muslim girl that was raped by Christian man 2 months ago.

My point here is we have to deal with both situations (Algerians and yesterday attackers) the same, we have to announce we have problems and religious discrimination is one of them, it is not the only one of course but we should not blame the mentally sick people for every bad event, we are living in a sick society and we have to confess that in order to fix it, although fixing it may take generations that is if we agreed to fix it first.

We have corruption in most (if not all) government and non-government entities, Egyptian citizen is the least treated person in his own country, they suffer to get their daily bread, and get real education (I am not saying good education), and more, you can visit some of Egyptian blogs to figure out how the bad situation is.

Actually we have issues even in human relationships between each other even our society is corrupted not only the entities, how can we ask Algerian not to threaten our people in Sudan and Algeria, or Israelis to stop attack Palestinians and kill them, if we are already killing each other.

I think we need to identify and confess our problems, and to stop only saying slogans but to apply it, I think it should be our first step show up our corruption so we can deal with it.

Some resources for this accedent:

• http://goo.gl/gKxq – BBC
• http://goo.gl/gTdI – BBC Arabic
• http://goo.gl/XAUh – CNN
• http://goo.gl/lzCi – Fox News
• http://goo.gl/xjkS – MSNBC
• http://goo.gl/AZ1x – Masrawy Arabic
• http://goo.gl/zwU6 – Al Yom Al Sab3 Arabic
• http://goo.gl/2i8c – American Coptic United Arabic