The author argues that the non-implementation of the recommendations of the report by a special committee convened to look into the communal violence in Al-Khanka in 1972, the Al-Oteify report, led indirectly to the recent communal violence in Al-Kosheh, because the underlying issues were not addressed. He ends with saying: "Is it not a shame on the Egyptian state that it escapes from the demands of its Copts to have the simplest human rights?"