By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, December 14 -- A crowd of Egyptic Christians gathered Tuesday in front of the UN, and the the Egyptian Mission on 44th Street, demanding an end to legal and violent targeting in that country.
Two representatives were allowed into the Egyptian Mission to deliver a “Letter of Demands to Maged Abdelaziz,” the country's Permanent Representative to the UN (who, UN sources say, has been seeking a job from and AT the UN).
When the UN Security Council issued a statement condemning attacks on Christians in Iraq, Inner City Press asked if the Council had discussed the related situation in Egypt. No, was the answer.
Tuesday in Dag Hammarskjold Park the demonstrators “outside PR” man, Robert Miller of New Jersey based Kessler Communications told Inner City Press that his clients absolutely would like the Council to consider their issues, which include the November 24, 2010 attack on a church in Giza and what he called “Nuremberg like laws” under which “it is a crime to build, repair or renovate a church without a special permit issuedc by the office of the President,” Hosni Mubarek.
An Egyptian expert at the UN told Inner City Press, “those Copts are screwed. No one will support them, because of Mubarak's relations with the West. Obama, for example -- he says nothing.”
Cops and Copts by Egption Mission, Dec 14, 2010 (c) MRLee
While around the UN's margin there has been talk of irregularities in the parliamentary election in Egypt, the UN has made no comment. Meanwhile on the evening of December 10, the Egyptian Mission hosted a much talked about holiday party. One wag on Tuesday suggested that “the Copts should have targeted that.”
