Radical muslims are using social media to persecute christians and incite hatred against them. The posts say the cops are foreigners infidels and western agents. Ignores the vitriol and shields his family from it so theyre not going to stop them from the high gotta have the most. Honest man that has the hope of being we dont Pay Attention to it were not afraid of their speeches in from the how is it we dont listen to them. The one weve got our views on we on the. Egypt is a country of different religions and thank god we coexist well. You know there are extremists thats nothing know. You how you could be them. I want to show my wish for going from this heinous their hate speech isnt just aimed at christians offical for the they just want to exercise control thats often going on so they dont really have the christians in their sights and the some of the. Radicals have been increasingly hostile toward christians since the wave of islam is ation began in the one nine hundred eighty s. For more than three decades islamists have been hounding christians by denying them their rights to equality or even to exist. Is a deacon the rituals of the Coptic Church are inch and they date back to the time before islam. But some islamists ignore the history of these people. They claim for example that the french and British Colonial powers imposed christianity on the arab world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to oppress muslims. Thats downright wrong. The fact is that the cops were there already. I. I i protested am i but i was before the start of the christianity came into being after the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ so after he ascended into heaven and a faith has been passed on from generation to generation and since the First Century after christ until today according to the current pope tallent ross the second is the one hundred eighteenth pope since the founder of the Coptic Church st mark who is one of jesus his disciples said to. Him and it wasnt until six centuries later that islam conquered egypt and then began to push back christianity. The color of the brick walls of the red monastery is also the origin of its name its located near so hard. The copts support a Strong National state because there have been waves of violent persecution in the past above all in rural areas with low levels of education. The extremists want to take cops lives and their wealth it was particularly bad when the Muslim Brotherhood was power in. And after the brotherhood was ousted. I live here im a shop he will deliver. A one hundred dollars you have when the people rose up against the Muslim Brotherhood they burned more than sixty seven churches. For what today are many robberies took place at that time and they were widespread young miss and these people wanted to create major chaos in the country. They wanted complete confusion. Thats why they were stealing to. Tractors and motorbikes. Things like sugar or a wood and other things too. We had one stolen as well as i know for nothing and there is such a big gun and so there were many extremists back then at the time of the Muslim Brotherhood. That the cause of the is most soon after president morsi was asked are we on our rights back that nothing or no god how good guide to the army intervened and secured the streets you could get that now because there is a on the same objective about them and the doctor gives there arent any problems at all. Because now we can safely transport our goods to and from cairo. Nothing. Soon go almost. Around two hundred thousand people live in. Compared to cairo the nile and the environment here are relatively clean and intact. So. I. Was. Like oh theres a party of no hobbs today theyre celebrating a graduation. Mohammads nice sylvia has finished school with top marks. She got almost perfect grades. On the forehand im very happy i studied hard so i got very good grades i want to become a doctor now everyone can celebrate with me because they also suffered through the hard work with me and i suffered a home in the big deal. Last month their. Education is the key to success for egypts coptic minority cops have better than average education and theyre successful professionally and therefore earn incomes that are above average. That triggers envy and ill will. Mother knows all about that. Before she retired she worked for the government telephone company. With a militia known when i started working three or four years later i was the first one to get a salary bonus even if it was only a pound and a half and i was also the youngest person in the country that got a bonus like that and what he did lydia my muslim colleagues were a bit put out real given me but that wasnt under my control. It came from god would. Be the one and the the man that im. Being better and trying harder are typical reflexive ways minorities cope with discrimination. That. Mo have sister openly explains the strategy. Yet i havent had been we have more love for life and we love our work so in that we dont have to be better than everyone else who we simply accept we have to do whatever it takes a little bit ahead yet. This is a private function thats why only christians are here there are hardly any interfaith families. Copts may marry only eastern orthodox christians. But that doesnt mean that the cops dont have any muslim friends. My heart is meeting ahmed on the corniche a prominent on the nile which attracts people when the weather is just right. Mohammeds friend ahmed is a muslim. Sees the cops as part of egyptian culture and part of the country. I. Made is shocked that the religious fanaticism of the group called Islamic State is also raging in egypt and it rejects christians right to exist. Amid says thats not Islamic Religious faith is a highly regarded value. Look at that thats why he respects the beliefs of his christian friend mohammad. The. Rules of english go in the ring is when the mission would involve but youre my friend and i dont care what your religion is you believe in god and the rest is none of my business which is friends like brothers and offset. If you are a christian then ill encourage you to go to church joining card me to go to the mosque to get both of them on the model. If christians are being harmed here and if something happens to them elsewhere they still have their friends and neighbors from someone i refer to the muslims as a put out and i dont want you to worry about me. Im going to let it. Go. Ive. Known have family cells wooden lumber the main lumber yard is about ten kilometers from so hot. Mojave spreader has just gone to china to set up new sources of supply. The fozzy family wants to expand their business. In so hog and in cairo and alexandria as well the family sells wood at small subsidiary shops business is good. Egypts economy grew by four point three percent last year and mojados would trade grew with it. He might even employ some new workers soon. All that matters to him is that the workers are qualified for. The whole and of course we have muslim employees two of one of them has been working for us for twenty five years another fifteen and theres another one whos been with us for more than five years. Its a mix of christians and muslims that have been working together for many years and always you. Know hubs family also supplies the red monastery with wood. I. Wondered. What i could only wish. For your father and tony is a prior of the red monastery. Father karol us runs the carpentry shop where benches chairs tables shelves windowsills sofas and much more are made. The monastery has a well established commercial business. So even though most of these monks rarely leave the compound they are still oriented toward the outside world. But the next one will clearly be good when the customers come from all over the area to fabricate all of us from as yet for example for the how many local people come to buy a whole bedroom set off on a chip for the bride to write us because they want to visit kids as a manhunt to see our constant engineers and the government to they buy from us. That it is untrue we sell furniture for a wedding dowries is well into muslims and christians on. This to listen to how you heard. The monks want to see if the furniture is comfortable. The a poster is a muslim. Even a Christian Institution like the red monastery sees to it that it employs muslims. Any minority demanding acceptance should not practice discrimination themselves. On the way were all treated the same here were like brothers theres no marginalization of the whole. People. Although it seems to contradict their withdrawn and traditional lifestyle the monks at the red monastery are in step with the times. Theyre even raising ostriches which is a bit of a new trend in egypt. Ostrich meat is in demand here because its low in cholesterol. I dont know. Whether you are. On the. Record i think. The red monastery is relatively large its a Midsize Business with olive groves vegetable gardens livestock and a joinery. But above all the red monastery is one of the most important religious centers in southern egypt. Behind this store is a genuine treasure. Its the part of a church that dates back to the sixth century and one of the oldest remnants of coptic culture. Its also a masterwork of byzantine architecture. That the if you because. I love this child very much i can celebrate the most wonderful masses in this church or good role models will always when i look up to the icons im really in or. For example what i really like is the image of the messiah and for anything about him hes raised his arms to grant blessings. Give me a good i like to make sure of because owls to a longing for water and it reminds me of a longing for god when. They give me good theyll then theres this image of mary a placid virgin especially how she holds the baby at her breast. And you know we. Put another one i like is this icon of the holy trinity. The trinity is in the name of the father the son and the holy spirit but ultimately theres only one god but not we believe in only one god god is wild. Who will look well and finally i like john the baptist with wings and it would be nice if people had wings to them a. Good. Record thank you very. Much thank you thank you thank you very. Much. Thank you. Thank. You thank you. Thank you. Thank you excuse. Me. Excuse. Me excuse me. I. I. I have is a bit subdued he doesnt want to be filmed at home at all his muslim neighbors pressured him not to do it they say they are afraid that as a christian hell present a negative picture of egypt on German Television he didnt do that quite the opposite thats why he brought his family album to the cafe. He wants to show us that he and his family are doing very well in egypt i and the time she will have a mission we all live together in loving harmony. Material wealth is not why we get along no our money is not everything mother and father taught us that money isnt everything. More jobs family is spread out over a large area. That. Was. Mario mohammeds wifes younger brother lives five hundred kilometers to the north in cairo. Hes studying art at the university here. He was here when an islamist terrorist attack the center of the Coptic Church the seat of its papacy. Mario can see through the radical strategy. Like so many others regardless of their age hes not falling into their trap. Or feel. That there are people who spread rumors to divide us but they wont succeed with the egyptians we are gyptian are one people like almost in the water. We are one people is a leading tenet of the coptic orthodox church. But not only the cops and here to that most muslim egyptians believe the same thing. Thats why they view the attack in december two thousand and sixteen which was apparently aimed at the coptic pope as an act of terror against all egyptians. In that incident a suicide bomber forced his way into St Peters Church and killed twenty eight people. You know theyre horrible pictures that really upset me terrible images. That are not because the victims were christians no its just because its difficult to bear with solving it. The bomb had been coated with small bits of metal. Or. Traces left by the deadly shrapnel can be seen in the columns of the church they remain as a grim reminder. The terrorist detonated the bomb on the right side of the church where the women sit. Lost both her daughters in the attack friends and family know visit the childless couple regularly to celebrate friendship and the good times they had with their daughters. The living room resembles a memorial shrine more than a place to sit and chat. To brawny and marina were eighteen and twenty one when they were killed in the attack on december eleventh two thousand and sixteen. When in a town i lay in hines and given what had a clue to say i want to get there as fast as i could to see the girls if they were still alive. I went into St Peters Church it was a terrible sight to see the whole church was full of rubble diskette all the pews were smashed one had there was blood everywhere everywhere in it from a back as if i were in a butchers yard. When hearts of bodies everywhere. I couldnt find a movie but they told me to go to the hospitals. So i went to look for my daughters she for hospital and i couldnt find them for i was about to give up hope of ever finding them and theyre going to want to pieces here and i thought was that why i couldnt find them and actually had the kit and finally someone told me to go to this room. To look at. There were refrigerators and had never seen anything like it. Withdraw. From the library i told a man to open the bottom one the evil fat so he did. The light fell and he uncovered her face it was her fabulous im going to give you food then i said open the upper drawer so they did and i found her older sister then i fainted. I mean. They hadnt done anything to him. Im sure they didnt harm him. What should i say. Its a path full of pain and sorrow a road of fornes. I have no life without our daughters has no heat no point. A memorial plaque in the Church Courtyard various pictures of the attack victims. I i i i. I i back in so hug mohammad got something to celebrate his muslim friend mahmoud is getting married. Christians are of course invited to attend just as they are to many other muslim weddings in egypt. I. The proud bridegroom greet each guest personally and with several hundred guests the welcome could take some time i i few particularly Close Friends are invited to join him for a snapshot. I. I. I i i i i i i more hope says that parties like this one are the best evidence that egyptians wont let the islamists divide them and they havent stripped the country of its lust for life either. The joy in partying dancing and laughing are typically egyptian. Something else the selfproclaimed guardians of virtue abhor. The islamists influence has fallen sharply the government has come down hard on the radicals. Thats been welcomed by christians like mohamed. Its why the copts see the government as an important ally. This is good its good that women havent been well first and foremost security is what is important to egypt one hundred security is the most important thing i guess would so well thank god were safe again since the army and police have taken control of the event john has protected the country from the unrest after the revolution im a little bit of both but. Theres another important reason more have doesnt back down in the face of pressure from the islamists who would prefer to see all christians leave egypt. So i do save us you cant leave so hard so hard whether its friendly and good people. Even if i went all over the world i would always return to egypt leave egypt. So our people are friendly and good they dont distinguish between muslims and christians. Unlike in iraq or syria the great majority of people in the country on the nile refuse to allow themselves to be split along religious lines the radicals strategy is failing. To
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