Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
Patriotic unity is the principal component of the Egyptian character. In spite of all the challenges, this unity has remained strong and conscious.
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
When we talk about national unity in Egypt, we are defending ourselves from the attacks that are launched against us. These attacks came first from the West in order to destroy the special and traditional co-existence between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
Some people ask what are the defects in the actual reality in which we are living? The defects are mainly concentrated in two points: First, insisting on keeping some rules, which spread the spirit of discrimination and kill equality. Second, keeping policies and behaviors, which have a disastrous...
Date of source: Thursday, January 27, 2000
Dr. Milad Hanna says in this interview: "... No minority managed to survive against the will of the majority. If a majority would have sought to end the existence of the minority, nothing would have stopped it. History, especially the Middle Ages [period], contains many examples of what I am...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
There are times when all the facts are misinterpreted and objectivity is missed among the mixed feelings of exaggeration and tension. What happened in Al-Kosheh are individual acts, which could not be counted as sectarian events. Accusing these events of being sectarian was encouraged by external...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
At the beginning of the symposium, the attendees stood for a minute of mourning for the martyrs of Al-Kosheh. Mr. Hussein Mansour began by saying that speaking of minorities and majorities is an expression of the failure to find a political majority. Then, he reviewed the eras of the ups and downs...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
The accusation of the Western colonialist countries that they are behind what is happening of sectarian conflicts is not something plucked out of thin air. It is the result of a bitter history.
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
The attitude of Al-Gamaat Al-Islamiyya towards the case of Al-Kosheh is a pointer for many things in the Egyptian reality. The most important of these is the agreement of all powers on the political map of Egypt on gathering [Egyptians] together and enhancing the spirit of unity, and that the real...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
No doubt, the last incidents of Al-Kosheh are a disaster, by all means. They were not the result of terrorism that can be contained, but sprang out of the sectarian atmosphere that was found to be embedded in hearts and souls.
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
After the incidents of Al-Kosheh, and in one of the Gulf satellite channels, Dr. Milad Hanna was back to that ugly tone that he started years ago, the tone through which he denied all his past developmental ideas and his patriotic enlightened history (or, for accuracy, his history that seemed...