Rabbi Abraham Cooper Writes: It is clear that the heroes of Tahrir Square and all the hopes that their struggle would lead their nation and the entire Middle East into a 21st century of change and freedom have been “democratically” defeated by fanatics seeking to drive their nation’s value system back to the 12th century.
We got the message loud and clear: There is no room in the new Egypt for Jews, dead or alive.
So we will mourn our loved ones from afar and pray that the ‘new’ Egypt will honor in deed, if not word, its peace treaty with Israel.
But the worldview of The Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists and other religious extremists present a clear and present danger to Egypt’s historic Coptic community, the region’s largest Christian minority. Their churches and their faithful have already been targets of religious-fueled terrorism. There are reports that thousands of Copts have already fled in wake of the Islamist political tsunami. But there are millions of Copts, representing at least 10% of Egypt’s population.
