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1. What a well-written article. Since I lived and worked near Cairo in the early 1980s, I’ve been especially following the tragic events. I’m assuming most businesses are on a standstill. Again, such a sad time. I hope my experiences with the Egyptian people, in general, of a happy, humorous, laid-back, generous, life-loving, clever and peaceful people, will once again be visible to all.

2. Thank you Naure Barsoumian for your excellent reporting. Keep up the good work. So glad Egypt is letting the world know about the Armenian Genocide. Hope peace comes to this beautiful country very soon.

3. It is a true picture of Egypt and Armenian Egyptians in the current situation. A very well structured article that covered all aspects in relating to the unrest in Egypt with no exaggeration. I felt at ease reading it.

4. A very well structured article. A complete and true picture of Egypt and the Armenian Egyptian’s status with regard to the current unrest in Egypt. I felt at ease reading it.

5. Thank you for an excellent analysis of the events.

6. Bravo Nanore, well written article.Enjoyed every word of it , true picture of Egypt today in general and Armenian Egyptians in particular, Hope peace will return to this beautiful country.

7. The burning and the destruction of the fourth century Church broke my heart. What a loss of history and irreplaceable and treasurable artifacts including books are gone forever.What a shame.

8. a good shot ,with a clear focus ,from the right angle. this will definitely help people abroad get a sound image of the situation here, amid the unprecedented media manipulation.

9. It can be argued that the present military rule is a less evil alternative than a totally Islamized Egypt to which direction the Morsi regime seemed to be moving.
   But regardless of this argument, the ouster of Morsi, a democratically elected president, as it happened was not a well-calculated act. At least on its face it was a coup. And though supported by the majority of Egyptians, it gave Muslim brotherhood supporters an excuse to allege illegal siezure of power. If there were really 30 million or so Egyptians on the streets protesting Morsi rule (I would like to see any links to show this), the correct course would be to let it develop into a real popular uprising which would cripple the country and bring Morsi down peacefully. The army would come to the fore at the end to ensure people’s victory. As it has turned now there is no guarantee that the army would be prepared to go back to barracks and Egypt will return to civilian rule any time soon.

10. The Armenian genocide being recognized by a rogue government,a government which came on the tanks of the army does not add much to our cause. It is exactly similar to when Israel decided to recognize the Armenian genocide after the Marmara incident, when they murdered the aid workers on the ship. In both cases it is not their love of the Armenian people or their sense of right or wrong, it is merely a dumb political game… Also, stop putting all Armenians in one basket and assume we must think alike… many of us would still prefer to have president Morsi back, but put in a corner, so that we can have at least a pretense of democracy back again. As it stands now, they have totally erased the very essence of our 25th January 2011 revolution.

11. It is quite myopic to assume that Mursi would have ruled democratically, he started acting as a despot by accumulating power shortly after coming to office, his ouster was very timely, good riddense to him and his Muslim brothers.

12. I will quote a statement that says it all…
    “why must egyptian citizens wait years to un-elect the political filth. Egyptians did what we don’t have the guts to do. So modern America, let’s not menialize their revolution just because we’ll never have ours. This was not a coup d’etat. The people have spoken. “

13. The following three statements
    – “Christians and moderate Muslims are united in their struggle against Islamist elements that are supported by the West”,
    – “the U.S. and the EU are protecting them”,
    – “the West backing the Muslim Brothers”,
    shows a breakthrough in awareness of what the West is going in the region.

    Since the 1990’s I have watched as the US (under three consecutive administrations) has aided and abetted jihadis in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Libya, Egypt, and Syria that are raping and killing Christians and also Muslims that say No to the 7th century. The US has caused a Christian apocalypse of suffering in Iraq and the region and does nothing to help them. The US is also very close and supportive of the AKP in Turkey and the Saudi government that are both supporting jihadis in the region.

    Now that there is some awareness of the West’s despicable support of jihadis in the region begs the question: all my Armenian brothers and sisters that I knew or read were optimistic about the Muslim Brotherhood in the Egyptian government before Morsi came to power. Why were you blind sighted? Can you critique or compare your thinking from then to now and explain the failure of your thinking? How could you not see this coming? And how can you explain the consistent US support for jihadis in the region since the 1990’s?

14. The report below is from Yahoo!News at http://news.yahoo.com/jihadists-torch-statues-crosses-syria-churches-173644824.html, more of the handiwork of US supported jihadis:

    Beirut (AFP) – Jihadist fighters linked to Al-Qaeda set fire to statues and crosses inside churches in northern Syria on Thursday and destroyed a cross on a church clock tower, a watchdog said.

    Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters entered the Greek Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation in the northern city of Raqa and torched the religious furnishings inside, the Syria Observatory for Human Rights said.

    They did the same at the Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs, and also destroyed a cross atop its clock tower, replacing it with the ISIL flag, the Observatory said.

    Most of Raqa, located on the banks of the Euphrates River and capital of the province of the same name, fell to anti-regime fighters in March.

    Where the ISIL dominates in the city, it imposes a strict version of sharia (Islamic law) on the populace.

    The London-based Observatory denounced these attacks “against the freedom of religion, which are an assault on the Syrian revolution.”

    Not only have there been attacks on Christian places of worship in Syria, a predominantly Sunni Muslim country wracked by more than two years of civil war, but also on Shiite Muslim mosques.

    Additionally, Christians clerics have been kidnapped, and some brutally murdered, by jihadists.

    In January, the Middle East director of Human Rights Watch, Sarah Leah Whitson, said: “The destruction of religious sites is furthering sectarian fears and compounding the tragedies of the country.

    “Syria will lose its rich cultural and religious diversity if armed groups do not respect places of worship.”

    The New York-based group said that “while some opposition leaders have pledged to protect all Syrians, in practice the opposition has failed to properly address the unjustified attacks against minority places of worship.”

    At the outset of the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, rebels welcomed the support of jihadist groups, largely made up of foreign fighters.

    But the jihadists, where they have reached a position of dominance in specific parts of the country, are increasingly alienating the native population.

    On Thursday, an ISIL commander from the United Arab Emirates was killed in fighting with Kurds in the north of Syria, the Observatory said.

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