Date of source: Saturday, April 1, 2006 to Friday, April 7, 2006
This Coptic author Salīm Najīb, the head of the Canadian Coptic Organization, is criticizing the article by Muslim journalist Usāma Salāma, which he says was filled with anti-Coptic threats and warnings against the bids to internationalize issues of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, April 1, 2006 to Friday, April 7, 2006
The article emphasizes Copts’ patriotism, arguing that Copts in Egypt are never involved with the practices of expatriate Copts.
Date of source: Saturday, April 1, 2006 to Friday, April 7, 2006
The article discusses the attempts of expatriate Copts to internationalize Egyptian Christians’ issues and the reverberations of these attempts on the situation at home on relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, April 2, 2006
A discussion of sectarian violence in Egypt at the Andalusia Centre for Studies on Reconciliation and Combating Violence and the Development of Democracy Group.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Hānī Labīb rejects the idea of internationalizing the problems of Copts in Egypt, believing that the only way out of such problems is through implanting the concept of citizenship between both Christians and Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, March 24, 2006
Usāma Salāma argues that discussion of the Coptic file in the International Committee on Human Rights at the UN, may lead to harmful acts against Copts who still live inside Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
The issue of international interference in Egypt on behalf of the Copts is highly controversial, and the author argues that Egyptian distress, not only Coptic distress should be internationalized.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
In his article, author Hānī Labīb, a Copt, retorts to the opinions of a leading expatriate Copt whom throughout the article he described as a “pretender of intellect” [Reviewer: The author has not mentioned the name of this Coptic leader – a likely reference to ‘Adlī Abādīr].
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
The author strongly rejects discussing the Coptic file in the UN, believing that there are hidden Zionist influences behind such step. He unleashes a severe criticism at Eng. ‘Adlī Abādīr who presented the report to the European headquarters of the UN.
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
Coptic intellectuals are divided over the step taken by Coptic activists in the West to discuss the Coptic file before the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. Some believe that such step is the only possible action in order to attract the government’s attention to the problems of Copts,...