United Copts of Great Britain on Item II
Mr Chairman and the respected board, I would like to focus on prevention of targeting
minorities for the persecution for hardship. People say prevention is better than cure. I am sorry
that I was in this session rather than the next one on prevention. I think it was my mistake. For
decades, Egypt was known for its harmonious existence of people with different faiths until 30
years ago, when [there was a surge of hatred] from radical extremists in Imam, then spread to
Egypt and then the world. By scholars belonging to the Wahhabi sect which originates from
Saudi Arabia, which invaded the institute of [Al-Azhar], the most important Sunni institute in the
world. At the early 50s Al-Azhar religious education and schools were counted on both hands on
Egypt. Now the religious education is 1/3 of secondary school education in Egypt due to the
expansion of religious education school during the 80s onwards which reflected badly on
peaceful co-existence. The curriculum of Al-Azham as previously said is based on Wahhabi
jurisprudence which will tech pupils in the 21 century to hate and despise non-Muslims, kill and
even eat the flesh non-Muslims… [interrupted by the Chair] Shall I carry on? And kill those who
do not pray…
[interrupted by the Chair: “I request for a point of order from Egypt. Egypt has the floor.”]
[interrupted by Egypt speaking in Arabic: “Al-Azhar is a university that covers more than 50,000
students teaching religious science and reflect in […] form of Islam. [They] are covering a series
of religious activities. The presence of the university is met with […] council. And the
statements made here are in no way true. Egypt has in place a constitution adopted following a
popular vote which enshrines the right of all Egyptians on equal footing with no
discrimination”.]
[Chair gives the floor back to the United Copts of Great Britain]
Thank you Mr Chairman, this constitution and law something, and the application of the law
something else there are hundreds of families of Christians who are innocent people, who are
expelled from their houses, from their countries, from their places of breadwinning and
eventually their were [destituted] by the Muslim extremists and the police comes and says,
comes and sits down and have informal meeting and after the meeting they expel the Egyptian
Christian family. And they don’t really go to court [because] they do not apply the law we would
like to see the law applicable to everybody. The world needs to pressurise al-Ahzar to remove
all materials of hate from its books and, number 1: stop its graduates from going around the
world to preach hate. Number 2: to prevent its graduates from studying for higher education or
work abroad until it removes all of hate messages from its book, curriculum and […] And to
enlist Al-Ahzar as a terrorist organisation if it doesn’t comply with that. Thank you.
[Chair: “I thank you. Once again I give the floor to the distinguished representative of Egypt on
point of order.”]