The Honeymoon is Over: How a love affair brought the Egyptian revolutionary fervor to its knees

[LayZie G.]

 

In Egypt, a relationship developed from an unlikely couple (or so it was reported), a muslim and a coptic christian. A young couple who courted each other in secret, who shared their dreams, aspirations with one another, who hoped to get married and avoid the sins of this world and whose love affair ended up costing the lives of 12 people and the hundreds injured, woke up one morning to find that the dream they dreamt has turned into a nightmare. As eager as they were to start the rest of their lives together, they came to find out that their love affair brought the Egyptian revolutionary fervor to its knees.

 

It was reported that both couple were Egyptians by descent. Both couple reside in the very same neighbourhood, suburbs of Cairo. The couple's love affair is at the centre of controversy but no one really knows who is the muslim and who is the christian in the relationship.

 

For now, we have to settle for different rumors, one version states that the girl was a coptic christian, who wanted to convert to Islam, and the man was a muslim. Another version says that the man was a coptic christian and the female was a muslimah.

 

At this time, there are no independent sources that can confirm or deny such romors. All we are going by is the version of the story that the coptic media is spreading on the internet and the other version thats spread by so called "mobs of men" or as the coptic mouthpieces on the internet report as "salafis" who marched infront of the church and demanded that a girl inside be released to their custody.

 

Egyptians, both christians and muslims alike are no longer standing shoulder to shoulder, fighting what they deemed as the "oppressive regime of Mubarak" to step down. The honeymoon as far as we know is over for the unlikely sides who came to naar square, calling for Mubarak to step down but who are a world apart today when it matters the most in post-Mubarak era, largely thanks to the saboteurs, who command a strong force that not only look to divide the country with sectarian violence but whose agenda is to delegitimize the military while creating chaos and instability leading up to the elections. Some reports coming from Egypt state that the violence clash was staged with precision, especially were the lovers are concerned.

 

 

 

 

 

Fast forward to may, 2011, as the world had its back turned to the Osama news, Egypt, with the honeymoon over, was burning.

 

 

You wonder how a love affair between two young people can incite such violence and contribute to the death of 12 people and hundreds more injured?

 

While the aftermath of the clash is well documented, both videos and pictures tell the tale of devastation, as well reports coming from cairo capture the images of chaotic scene, as well as burned buildings, damages to personal properties and places of worship.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The background to the violence is controversial and even contradictory but the story has all the dramatic elements of a good blockbuster film but it will be up to you to decide which version of the "love affair gone wrong" you believe.

 

Version #1: A muslim man falls inlove with a coptic qalanjo, they decide to get married, she runs to her ultra-conservatist(coptic) family as she beams with delight and shares her good news with them. Few days pass, young muslim man waits by the phone and his qalanjo is not heard from. He then proceeds to call the organized crime organization or as the coptic mouthpieces on the internet call "SALAFIS". The young distraught man sobbed as he told the mullah's about his secret love affair. He didn't share the saga with anyone except the salafis, reported the coptic news. He said to them that the love of his life was in a church called the St. mana church, held against her will, she wants to marry me, I know because she was beaming when she last left me, sobbed the young lover. They have kidnapped my bride to be, please help me mullahs.

 

So, mullahs march to the church (St. Mina), demanding a so called (coptic parishioner), supposedly, the girl(zita as some like to call her) be released to their custody....words are exchanged and next thing the priest and some of congregation find is blazing fire, they are attacked with Molotov cocktails and they are all running for cover, naar square all over again.

 

 

 

Version #2:

 

The other version of the love story has reports that the female lover was a Muslimah. Her father had some knowledge of the relationship but his cousin found out that his niece was seeing a coptic, and he was reported to have marched to his cousins house (the father of the girl) and executed him point blank, not sure if he used a gun or beheaded him but the father of the girl died from violent injuries because he did not fulfill his obligation as a father by committing his daughter to stoning for forming a relationship with a coptic christian, for that reason, the father was executed for his daughter's sins. Upon hearing that his father was killed, the girl's brother killed the cousin as an act of revenge for his father's death.

 

Stories as the one above are reoccuring themes in Egypt, especially where the coptic church is concerned. Not long ago, (2009), similar story took place in another community, this time, the girl was a muslimah and the boy a coptic, both he and his father were killed because he fell inlove with a muslim girl. Whether the above story did happen last weekend or whether it was fabricated, only Allah knows but Egypt is burning.

 

 

 

yours truly,

 

LayZie G.

[Ducaysane]

Lazie,

horta xaas miyaad tahay. dan baa iga kaa soo gashee.

[Cawaale]

^loll. Ducaysane. Life is good eh? One of the most Qunyar-Socod guys in SOL, aa caawa sheeko keenay. I am afraid this thread will hit the 20+ pages.

 

Lazy, search #25jan and #Egypt on twitter(tweets are mainly in English ) and you will see what the regular people, the witness and the revolutionaries say about this and the current Egyptian situation in general. Don't pay attention to the mainstream media.

[The Zack]

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[Cawaale]

Zack, Aa yar sxb. Meeshaan dadka idinkaaba dudinaayo wallahi.

[The Zack]

^Advice taken, bro.

 

EDIT: I deleted my whole post.

[Jacpher]

^Dooro waaxid. Oday Zak kuma ogeyn tarmaaree waa sidee? Kidding.

 

On the topic: Waxaan maqli jiray habarta odaga wax loo saar. Hadde sheeko waa taa.

 

Cawaale: Adigaa meesha dhex taaganee dadka maad u waranto.

[Axmed-InaJaad]

wherever theres trouble, violence, war, there is a woman behind it/

[The Zack]

LOL@Jacphar.. talada odayga Cawaale ah mid wax ku ool ah bey aheyd.