Fahmy Huweidy discusses responses he received to an article he wrote previously. He finds the Coptic associations in North America extreme, but many Copts in Egypt defend their behaviour.
Huweidy was asked to write this time about the situation of the Copts in Egypt. Is there persecution or not? Most of the letters he received concentrated on the suffering of Copts, without a true understanding of the situation in Egypt. All referred to the building of new churches. Copts complained of being insulted by Muslims calling them atheists. But, says Huweidy, claims are exaggerated. Those who criticized the behaviour of Muslims asked questions beginning with what, where and when, ignoring the questions why and what to do? No one tried to explain the emergence of these negative examples within the last two decades.