Keeping Christians away from leading positions in the Egyptian universities would be the first nail to be driven in the coffin of the civil state concept in Egypt, the beginning of the end for Christians in universities and the Islamization of government institutions.

The coming days might reveal that this system of fraternity in religion rather than fraternity in the nation would turn universities into racist organizations.

I still find it hard to believe that Muslim professors would elect some "infidel" as a head of a department or a dean of university and ignore their "brothers in the faith".

This system has to be reconsidered through an alternative that would preserve the rights of both Muslims and non-Muslims away from the system of quota that would keep reminding us that we are brothers and sisters in faith rather than in the nation.