Many Coptic civic groups, politicians and activists in Egypt joined the demonstrators yesterday in front of the US Embassy in Cairo to denounce the National American Coptic Assembly##s (NACA) call for the division of Egypt
Many Coptic civic groups, politicians and activists in Egypt joined the demonstrators yesterday in front of the US Embassy in Cairo to denounce the National American Coptic Assembly##s (NACA) call for the division of Egypt, and a separate Coptic State. The demonstrators denounced the American film produced last July that is said to be insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohamed.
The majority of the protestors, however, belonged to various Islamist streams. The hardline Salafis held banners with the pictures of Usama Bin-Laden and the Libyan Abu-Yehia, and shouted slogans that Egypt is Islamic. Other demonstrators called for national unity.
In the absence of Egyptian security forces, a number of protesters managed to climb the walls surrounding the embassy, while others were able to go into the embassy garden, where they removed an American flag and replaced it with another one bearing the Islamic declaration of faith: “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is the Prophet of Allah.”
Among the demonstrators were the Coalition of the Voice of Wisdom, the Salafi al-Nur Party, the Assala Party, the Public Islamic Stream, the Public Coalition of the 25 January Revolution, the Bearded Policemen Coalition, and a number of Coptic organisations.
WATANI International
12 September 2012