Sharīf al-Shūbāshī wonders in an opinion article in al-Ahrām whether it is logical to ask the party that first sparked a fire to put it down, referring to attempts to have salafists intervening to end the current sectarian crisis.

He said he has watched mind-boggling Youtube clips showing men, mostly bearded, including one who was inciting followers for murder and destruction, leading others who were insulting Copts and their spiritual leader and ending his moribund speech by saying "We'll never be true men if we do not burn the churches in Imbābah."

The author says that the Copts of Egypt have to stand their own ground and quit thinking about leaving their own nation as the predicament they are going through are not theirs alone, but rather it is the Egyptian society's as a whole.

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