Egypt's Christians: To boycott Clinton or not to boycott her

This article was originally published at Lapido Media on August 1, 2012.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared religious freedom in Egypt to be ‘quite tenuous’ following the releaseof the 2011 International Religious Freedom Report. Despite chronicling several instances of sectarian violence against Coptic Christians, their community finds itself increasingly divided over its longstanding support for America.

For three days now Sudanese protesters have been killed and traced by helicopters mercilessly in the city of Nyala , Darfur and yet the world is acting as if there is nothing at all.

The Lebanese cabinet was busy discussing reforms to the electoral law yesterday. For this we should credit the heroic efforts of the civil campaign for electoral reforms which has been diligently pushing this important issue. The discussions will resume later and the next item on their list will be the “quota for women”, i.e. the idea that a minimum percentage of Lebanese MPs should be comprised of women. I like this idea; I’m glad that it is picking up in the Arab world and I hope it makes it in Lebanon.

I laughed so hard I cried... [The video is embedded here - in Arabic language only]

For the benefit of our English readers: This video talks about a Saudi man who can't figure out how to serve coffee to his guests, and his father isn't happy with him. So he joins a Manhood Academy to learn to be a man. The school takes him through different challenges till he finally can figure out learns how to be a man.... But he didn't learn who enters the cafe first, and it should be him according to the Arabian traditions, because he was on the 'right' side.