Freedom Bulwark | Evil triumphs when good people do nothing

         One cannot but feel very sad, disgusted and frustrated from the unprovoked killings of Christians in Egypt. In the past few years such a tragedy would have taken place with a public outcries and condemnations by most Moslems including the perpetrators. This time though, the sad event was publicized so repeatedly in the Egyptian media, while accusing the Salafies with this grotesque crime. Even though Al-Azhar condemned such a heinous crime publicly, it was still criticized very strongly by most intellectual Moslems for not taking enough action against the Salafies. The dead and the wounded were not only Christians but a huge portion was from the Moslem community. As a result, many Moslem intellectuals are demanding the immediate incarcerations of most Salafies while insisting on public trials with a strong demand for the death penalty for the Salafis perpetrators. This demand is a bit strange because for the first time it excluded Christians from being punished since their reaction of killing the attacking Moslems was clearly in self-defense, a fact that was never admitted before.

        Most media were demanding from the government and the Islamic authorities to do whatever is necessary to restrict the activities of the Salafies and place them under firm control and surveillance including those that were not involved in the crime. From the many reports that were unveiled by the media, most Salafies are either on the run, or in hideouts so as to avoid being caught to face the expected severe justice. There are few who are demanding that punishment should include those Christians who were involved in killing some Moslems, which means that Christians were armed, even in defending themselves, which represented violations of carrying arms without proper licenses. Such an accusation, of course, created a lot of fear among Moslems including the Slafies that Christians will use fire arms in any future attack.  

      The strong Moslem brotherhood organization had special emergency meetings so as to probe actions to stop the Salafies because, in its views, they are damaging the long term agenda of creating an Islamic state using peaceful intellectual approach discounting any violence in their future agenda. Whether we believe them or not may not be the issue at present, but the Salafies actions at this time, does frustrate the brotherhood long term plans. One can conclude from this position that the Salafies had solicited a discrete war with the powerful brotherhood, which will not serve the future of either group.