Since the outbreak of violent sectarian clashes in Cairo, on May 6th, a few hundred Copts have been gathering at the American Embassy calling for foreign protection in Egypt, under the pretext of defending minorities. Calls for foreign intervention in Egypt are not new, but the latest escalation displays a genuine risk to the Egyptian state. Egyptian dissidents, such as Morris Sadek, have for long desired intervention by American forces, in collaboration with the United Nations (following the recent clashes, he renewed his calls for intervention, this time demanding the UN security council to declare Egypt a zone of ethnic cleansing, and impose serious sanctions.) Morris Sadek is well-known for his online videos (apparently he does not have the courage to speak from Egypt) calling on Copts to protect themselves against every single Muslim, pledging that there are no moderate Muslims; "they are all murderers." Sadek is a long time advocate of partitioning Egypt into two states: A Muslim State and a Coptic State. Mr Sadek wholeheartedly assumes American intervention (an invasion) will bring justice to the troubled Copts of Egypt. Sadek, like most Coptic activist in North America and Europe, is not disputing for equal rights, on the contrary, he aims at degrading Muslims to give Copts justice. Degrade in the sense of killing, ethnic cleansing, and partition. The ultimate ambition coincidentally is "returning" Egypt to the Copts after years of an Arab "invasion." Such alarming ambitions are not for equal rights, they are calls for violence, division, and intolerance; no less harmful than Salafi's themselves (whom all of a sudden are the source of all Egypt's problems.) Calling for Coptic rights is an issue that is to be solved internally, through non-violent resistance and an atmosphere of tolerance, and prosperity. However "taking back" Egypt is not a policy for equal rights. A distinction must be made. Moreover, Copts tend to overlook other minorities in Egypt who face true discrimination, on a much higher level of nonobservance. The Nubian and Bedoiun cities are a powder keg, fuelled with a sense of negligence over the passed decades, they have no education, no healthcare, and for many, they have yet to obtain Egyptian citizenship. This is the true discrimination of minorities in Egypt. One would expect the Coptic activists calling for equal rights to acknowledge Nubians and Bedoiuns at least once, as minorities facing elevated consequences and being deprived of the basic necessities of life. More importantly, our brainwashed Coptic brothers, who believe America will set them free of the intolerance and discrimination they endure, must face the truth of American intervention. The intervention that led to the Diaspora of the Iraqi Christian community since the American invasion. The intervention that overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953. The intervention that continues to produce defected and disabled children due to the chemical weapons used in Vietnam. The intervention in Afghanistan that led to the birth of the Osama Bin Laden phenomenon and Al Qaeda in 1981. The interventions in Latin America, overthrowing elected governments, killing children, purposely producing unhealthy and undemocratic societies. And more importantly, Egypt, where they funded, for 30 years, a tyrant, whom under his rule Copts witnessed the Alexandria bombing of New Years eve and the Nagaa Hamadi massacre of Christmas 2010. What type of intervention are Coptic activists in Europe and North America desperately calling for? And how would such an intervention help produce equal rights for Copts? Additionally, under what basis are Coptic activists employing the threat of foreign intervention? If anything, resembling calls for intervention only fuel intolerance farther (the calls of intervention are themselves intolerance, on the basis of calculating the number of Muslims who would die under a American invasion.) The state, and its institutions are what coordinates the nation during the tense transitional period. State institutions are already fragile, and we as Egyptians accepted the high chances that some would devote their efforts to undermine the revolution and cripple the national unity of Egyptians. Those who have a problem within Egypt, are mandated to solve it in Egypt with Egyptians. Calling for Equal rights from the US is not an option, nor will it solve or expose the core issues. In the new Egypt, no one is above the law, and the law is what controls the state; deviating from the law, and calling for foreign intervention will regrettably lead to an end of the Egypt we know and respect. A new Egypt, divided and segregated will be born. A Egypt no one yearns for or desires. Numerous explanations remain unknown, nevertheless the sit-in protestors at the American embassy are converging to meet with the American ambassador tomorrow. One cannot wish them luck. Those who betray and mislead the unity, the law, and the state cannot be respected nor honored.
