If you are believing the panicked reports from Israeli and neocon American commentators that the Egyptian revolt is being taken over by Islamists, consider: After the horrific bombing of the Coptic church in Alexandria on New Year's, many Muslim Egyptians turned out on Eastern Christmas (January 7) to form cordons around Coptic churches in many parts of the country. On both Fridays of the present demonstrations, Coptic Egyptians (some in clerical vestments) returned the favor. After the huge Friday prayer in Tahrir Square, the Copts held their Holy Mysteries (Mass) yesterday in the square as well. (Cairo's main "celebrity" ceremonial mosque, ‘Umar Makram, is on the square, but the nearest churches are a couple of blocks away). Again, each faith is helping protect the other.In my earlier post on the Revolution of 1919, which I still think resembles this one more than anything else in modern Egyptian history, the revolutionaries flew the flag above, with both crescent and cross, which later became an emblem of the Wafd Party. The two communities protecting each other both suggests this is not an Islamic Revolution, and that Egyptians are united. (So far as I have seen, however, Coptic Pope Shenouda has continued to defend the regime.)
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