من حقّ رئيس الكنيسة القبطيّة الأرثوذكسيّة أن يتّخذ قراراً جماعيّاً(بموافقة مجمع الأساقفة) بمنع أعضاء كنيسته من زيارة الأماكن المقدّسة بأورشليم بشكل زيارة دينيّة، وهذا أساساً احتجاجاً على سياسية دولة إسرائيل في التعامل مع قضيّة دير السلطان وثانياً احتجاجاً على استمرار احتلالاهم لنصف القدس، ثم على ممارساتهم اللا إنسانيّة ضد الفلسطينيّين.
ليس من حقّ رئيس الكنيسة، ولا أيّ من القائمين على أمور الكنيسة أن يدعو الناس لتأييد مرشّح دون غيره.
وقد لعبت دوري الذي أقدر عليه في استيضاح هذا الموضوع هنا وهنا.
لكن الموضوع يجب أن يعالج بشكل أوسع، حتّى لا تعمّم هذه السابقة.
بالمناسبة: أنا لا شكّ لديّ أنّ الأساقفة رأيهم هكذا فعلاً وأنّهم لا ينافقون، ودي المصيبة!
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Why is commenting in Arabic so difficult in your blog, do you have UTF-8 Unicode as a default encoding?
I'll follow up in English.
The problem is that this is not hypocrisy; I wish it was. This reflects probably a real fear that the pope and his close circle, who never walk in the streets and never have contact but with frequent churchgoers, from any different regime or from a state of chaos.
The other point is that people will never say: "God wants me to vote for Mubarak". I don't think they will vote to start with, but those who will vote do not need the Pope's announcement. I think that this announcement is to score some points. Too bad. It's a wrong choice.
Ramy:
The encoding is UTF-8.
I could read your second comment but not the first. I am not sure if this is the problem, but try typing the text in the comment box instead of copying and pasting from an application like Word.
(I am assuming the 2nd comment is the same as the first, so I am deleting the first - it is unreadable any way).
Ramy:
You know, I wouldn't use the word "hypocrisy" if they simply said they support Mubarak because he is the best possible candidates under the circumnstances... In that case I would have just said they are interfering in politics.
But when I read what the pope said in Al-Ahram, it's like poetry...
If I didn't know the interview was with the pope, I would have thought that Samir Ragab wrote those words about Mubarak... that is why I used the word "hypocrisy".
If they insist on publicly supporting Mubarak they can do so without saying all those "wonderful" things about him... and they also don't have to bash the opposition for expressing their opinion.
What do you expect him to do EP? He was asked these questions and he had to respond in a particular way to curry favor with the Mubarak regime. Can you imagine how Copts would be treated if their leader publicly spoke out against Mubarak?
PE:
Yes, but the point is he does not need to speak for or against Mubarak unless he really wants to.
I don't know if treatment of Copts / Christians will be different whether the pope spoke for or against Mubarak, but I know that when the pope talks like this, he becomes a part of the problem facing the country today.
And again "If they insist on publicly supporting Mubarak they can do so without saying all those "wonderful" things about him... and they also don't have to bash the opposition for expressing their opinion".
I just think it is wrong for any religious official to publicly support a certain candidate.
Be careful what you say in Egypt lest your fate becomes the same as Kareems. Be careful when you speak about Mubarak.
I was living in Egypt when Sadat was assasinated. I never saw anything like it in my life since I am American, but I do speak Egyptian. I suffered a lot as an American living in Port Said, Egypt.
You should come to my blog and read my post "Why I could not become a Muslim".
I like your blog--and delete this comment if anything I said would put you in trouble. I am in the US so we really do have free speech but there is little to no free speech in Egypt--I know I lived there. And I speak Arabic, though I do dnot read or write it--heh, my then inlaws would not let me go to the college that was teaching foreigners how to read and write Arabic. They told me that it was "eye ebb" for me to go....heh!
Salam,
Layla
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