In an interview by Al Wafd newspaper with Samīr Ghatās, the president of the Middle East Forum for Strategic Studies, he stated that the U.S. position pertaining to the Christians in Egypt is flawed with double standards. He said that previously it was not acceptable if the glass of a church was broken by force; the U.S. and some European countries would “turn the world on top of its head” (Translator’s note: figuratively meaning to take serious action). But now, however, there have been 80 churches burnt and the Copts were terrorized, evicted from their villages, prevented from exercising their religious rites, and no one has heard the U.S. or the European countries denounce that or accuse the Muslim Brotherhood. He stated that this denotes that there are double standards in using the Coptic issue in applying pressure on some regimes and completely ignore it with other regimes (Mustafā al-Disūki, al-Wafd, Sept. 20, p. 7). Read the original text in Arabic.