There are other minorities than the Copts "Orthodox Christian Egyptian" that don't have its rights completely
In fact if we compare their conditions with the Copts conditions, we will find that Copts are much more fortunate than them
What are these minorities?
- The Bedouin Arab tribes of Sinai
- The Bedouin tribes of the West desert
- The Nubian people
- The Bedouin Arab tribes of Sinai , already they stood beside the Egyptian people to get back our land yet we repaid the debut in the worst way especially the security forces which since the first Taba blasts began a mass operation of Oppression against them started in Arish on the Egyptian –Palestinian borders , mass arresting operations to Women and Children ,and of course with harassments to the women ,reports of human rights organizations said it is harassments from both kinds "Physical " and "sexual", people we are considered from the urban parts yet we don't accept such behavior and feel so angry just like what happened over the Journalists syndication from few months , so can you imagine what are the feelings of the Arab Bedouins tribes towards the security forces especially the honor for such tribes is a big thing and they don't forget , Taba blast was just the beginning of the hell the tribes of Sinai would see later after the Sharm El-Sheikh blast on the last 22nd of July 2005 , Let's just say the truth that till this moment the Egyptian don't have a clear idea about what really happened in Sharm .
Anyway what happened from mistreatment to the Bedouins in Sinai there was a disgrace, torture, mass arresting to ladies and children, harassment and that's really enough to make the people of Sinai just hate those bloody people who come from Valley of the Nile.
If you go to Sinai and see the life of those people, you will sure feel with some suffering.
After all they turned in to some human exhibition to the tourists there , I am sorry but as Egyptian I don't like this and then we come with our security phobia to turn their in to hell "boy the Israelis were better"
Before the elections, the 10o' program on Dream 2 discussed this issue with people from there and it was tragedy and of course the NDP member spoke of how Sinai whether North and South turned in to heaven in the last 20 years!!!!! "Tourist heaven may be!!"
No one denies that Sinai and some Bedouin tribes turned in to smuggling and drug trafficking but why?
Simply because the government didn't give them any help to improve their living. Yes they plant drugs and hush in the land that supposed to be plant wheat and corn but did the government give them a real help to spread the wheat farms instead of the hush farms in the vales of Sinai.
The government was thankful to make the Al-Salaam Lake and the Nile river water reached Sinai but it is not enough , the red tapes and high price of the land are constraints to anyone who just thinking to work in cultivation there .
If you think more and more in this issue, you will find that it isn't the Egyptian people mistake at all, we are not racists heaven forbids but it is the regime and the government's fault that don't care about the people as it should be.
The unemployment in the younger generation of Bedouins in Sinai is the main reason they turned in to crime and terrorism, also the lack of education.
Really how many schools are there?
And how many students there enrolled in the education process?
Many questions with no or even embarrassing shocking answers
Lack in education, lack in medical care, and lack in, lack in …….etc
The people of Sinai, are just like the rest of Egyptian people don't ask much, just a little respect and good life
I guess these demands are very modest and after all they are Egyptian people and live under the Egyptian flag.
Imagine this scene a young Bedouin kid doesn't go to school, live in poverty and ignorance, suddenly he sees his mom being dragged out of there house in the most humiliated way by an Egyptian police officer from her hair because some one said to be from the Bedouin "not so sure also" bombed himself in a hotel beside a vip residence, and those bad terrorists are from the Bedouins and they escaped somewhere in Sinai, and they are not related to the family of the kid near or far!!
This kid rose upon the values of Honor and so, do you expect that he will be loyal to the flag and the regime and the country? After all he is mom was humiliated under the name of protecting the nation!!
By the way many people now in Egypt speak about these terrible acts against those poor civilians especially Soot El-Omaa newspaper made reports about what happened there for many issues and no one cared from the government to deny these accusations
The Egyptian government and security are losing as usual minds and hearts in Sinai, Losing allies that they depended upon a lot in the time of the war and I am afraid that the Israeli forces hadn't done in six years what the Egyptian police did in few months!!
The Egyptian police says that by this way it fights and eliminates terrorism but really by this way it spread hate, anger that can be turned to violence and no loyalty to the country
just few notes to make the picture clear
ReplyDelete1- the beduins were never loyal to the flag or the nation, they only believe in their group and the money, of course some exeptions exist
2- many groups of them were working with egyptian army during war years, but many of them were working against us too, that is important to be noticed especially that they have long history with betraying this country
3- they are not completely responsible of that, part of the responsibility lies on centuries of ignoring their existense and considering them a minority that we don't have to handle as real egyptians, they proved many times that they can be very dangerous especially that they know very well the desert ways
4- sure egypt didn't do them much during the last few decades to make them feel like egyptians, they shouldn't expect much outcome then now
5-there are other minorities you can talk about, you can talk about katholik and sheiia in egypt, they do exist but we rarely hear about them, sheeiia especially may be a very dangerous topic as we deal with it as if they don't exist in egypt at all!!!
Yes they are never loyal to a country or a nation but that it isnotalways a rule , it can be changed , already the Islam changed it from14 centuries yet came back as result of many reasons and yes theyworked and some of them still working with the Israelis but why ?becuase working with the Israelis improves their living , I heard oncethat the Israeli army was providing them was food and money andchecking their conditions from time to time ,they did this in order towin an ally , yet many of them stood against the israelis , the Arishresistence group and many other bedouins stood with the Egyptians yetthe government doesn't want to remember or mention thisDo you think that if they have a good opportunity to live in dignity,they will let it go !!-about the minorities that I didn't mention ,well thanks for remindingme with the Shiia ,and to the say the truth I don't understandanything in their issueabout the Catholic ,well I don't see any problem with them , I knowmany successful Egyptian catholics and they don't complain
ReplyDeleteofficially there are 200'000 catholics in Egypt.
ReplyDeleteNon Officially there are 500'000 Shiite in Egypt and I am one of them. I have always lived as a shiite in my house but in school my parents have taught me not to show it. Its only when I get to pray with people where they notice I am shiite and they give me bad looks or start moving the thing i pray on away from my head. I am Egyptian. I have no Irani origins nor my parents. My Mother's uncle god injured in the 1973 war and he was a shiite as well. Please give us freedom.
7aram 3aleekom.
@ my Shiite anonymous friend I am so happy that you commented and believe I want to hear from you more as we need also to hear from the other side
ReplyDeleteI am so curious to know more about you and your family
Hey Shiite,
ReplyDeleteWe don’t need minorities to deal with. We already have those dirty, ugly, smelly, Copts to deal with. They seem to bitch about everything. Every Copt that I met is a fucking Doctor, Engineer or a lawyer. They have tons of fucking money and they get VISAS to the US with ease. SO STOP FUCKING COMPLAINIG. You want freedom? Sunnis don’t even have “freedoms”; under this corrupt government no one has any rights.
I am very sorry to all visitors about Mr.Me and not you 's rude comments , I am very sorry for this full of hate comments
ReplyDeleteI thought of deleting the comment but with second thought I prefered to answer back
to my dear visitor Mr.Me and not you copt means Egyptain and by your insult to the copts you are insulting the Egyptian people as whole and this is something I won't accept it as I am an Muslim Copt ,the minorities are there in Egypt whether Ethnic or religious and they must be treated as the Islam ordered us by equity with no difference
Me and not you
ReplyDeleteare u a real Ahly fan ?
Zeinobia:
ReplyDeleteI agree entirely with your post, and with the comments about Shiaa and Catholics. I'm always amazed at how much anomisity there is between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. Of course we should not generalize, and I am sure there are those with pure intentions regardless of religion or race.
One thing I find confusing is: What do you mean when you say that you're a Muslim Copt? Is it symbolic that you believe both should be equal, or do you actually believe in thogh Islam and Coptic Christianity?
@alb many people don't know that the word copt in greek means Egyptian ,I wrote a post about it and I will re-showed again
ReplyDeleteand so I am muslim copt
Hey Zeinobia, I enjoyed reading this post. Its very well informed but a real shame to see the negative comments that followed. @FreeSoul, there are around nine or ten Bedouin tribal ocnfederations that inhabit the Sinai, I find it strange that you can genralise them as there as so many of them. Beleive it or not some are very loyal to Egypt and do conscider themselves Egyptian just as much as anyone else. @Zeinboia, glad youve pointed that the word Coptic was used by the anncient Greeks to describe Egyptians or at least anncient Eyptians. It has now come to mean Egyptians who are Christian and belong to the Egyptian Coptic Church, hence it is now more a religious thing then an actual racial thing. All in all a good post. Peace
ReplyDeleteDear anonymous, thank you so much for your comments , I agree with you that the bedioun tribes are not like what we think , yes some tribes do not have a sense of belonging due to the nature of their living ,but they are very few , the other tribes belong to Egypt and they are Egyptians and despite all the trouble they are suffering from it now they are still keeping their belong to Egypt
ReplyDeleteabout the Copt name , it changed with time to be associated with the religion unfortunately , I do not like this because for those who do not know it may give them a wrong idea that Muslims are not actually Egyptians