CAIRO - The domestic aftermath of the recent Egyptian revolution underlines the eternal reality that women give birth to life – and mobilise their daughters to seduce men and wreak havoc on their siblings. I do not mean to be cruel to women - especially my mother, my wife and my daughters. But this thought became irresistible – at least to me – because two women were involved in a tragic tug-of war between Muslims and Copts. Like Hawa (Eve), whose tempting of Adam triggered a huge conflict on Earth, the story of the two women in Egypt is threatening to ignite a tragic war in Egypt between Coptic husbands and their Muslim rivals. Like their great grandma Eve, who eloped with Adam from Paradise, these two women, who happen to be Copts, apparently broke with their Coptic husbands and eloped with Muslim men. Their alleged elopement took more dramatic and threatening dimensions, when the Muslim partners claimed that these Coptic women had converted to Islam. Refusing to give in to this nuptial humiliation, the Coptic husbands decided to pursue their spouses. Taking into consideration the fact that it was Eve who tempted Adam into eating of the Tree of Knowledge, one should not rule out the possibility that the Muslim men were contacted by these Coptic women to help them escape from their Coptic husbands and start a new life in Muslim homes. The woman's eternal conspiracy against men must have been first initiated by Eve, the wife of Adam. Unable to resist temptations revealed to her by Iblis (Satan), Eve ignored God's advice and ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. She then tempted Adam to eat the fruit. Perhaps the tree produced fruit which acted as a stimulant (the world's first Viagra, if you like), sexually rousing Earth's first-ever couple. Also I suspect that knowledge here refers to the chief source of human weakness – sexual desire. My doubts should be reinforced by the story in the Holy Bible, which says that, after eating the fruit, Adam and Ever realised that they were naked, and felt ashamed, so they tried to cover themselves with leaves. While Eve has been condemned down through history for seducing Adam, no-one has ever questioned why Adam so swiftly and willingly gave in to his partner's temptations. Adam has always been portrayed as the helpless and powerless victim, although he could have admonished his spouse for disobeying God. If Adam did so, post-revolution Egypt would have been saved from the curse inflicted upon it by the two Coptic women who eloped. As for the overriding influence of the two women in the tragic violence in Egypt, things went from bad to worse when both humiliated husbands and the women's new partners stubbornly decided to stick to their guns by refusing to reject the temptations of the two women. The humiliation shifted to the Muslim partners when the Coptic men discovered the whereabouts of their rebelling wives. Escorted by tens of thousands of sympathisers, the crestfallen Muslim partners demonstrated outside the cathedral in el-Abbasiya and the church in Imbaba, demanding their property be returned to them. These furious Muslims claimed that the two women were hiding somewhere, having been abducted. One of the women appeared on a video to declare that she had changed her mind and wanted to live in peace with her husband and child. She also insulted the Muslim pursuers by categorically denying that she had ever converted to Islam or sought to live in a Muslim home. Her statement was ridiculed by the Muslim pursuers. They claimed that bishops had brainwashed their ‘Muslim property' and dictated to her what she should say. The second woman acted differently. She contacted her Muslim boyfriend, urging him to save her from her detention. Her call for help set the district of Imbaba in Giza ablaze. My idea might sound a little far-fetched, but a close re-examination of Eve's temptation before she deliberately eloped with Adam from Paradise surely adds much credence to it.
