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The reality of the very sad situation is that insufficient, in adequate security is deployed to protect the Christians. More alarming and the root of the problem, is the fact that security is required at all. The essence of my submission is, “the only reason security forces are required to protect the Christians is because religious intolerance of the Copts is alive and well in Egypt”. There is a very large element of the Islamic community in Egypt, which participates and engages in terror against the non Muslim population necessitating your government to have a security force to keep them in check. The end result has been a total failure of the security force to protect the Copts, and no positive moves to outlaw religious discrimination and intolerance.

I would point out, had there been a similar attack on Muslims by Coptic Christians, (a reverse situation), all hell would have broken loose and wide spread massacre of the Coptic community would have occurred through out Egypt.

There is no equality in the treatment of Copts by your Muslim officials. There is no doubt many of your government Officials harbor resentment and hatred towards the Copts, and  this is also part of the root cause of the discrimination.
Dear President, the manner the Egyptian Islamic courts are dealing with this young man is of the gravest concern to every Copt in the world.

During the last hearing at the criminal court in Qena on Dec. 13, it was nothing short of a barbaric session. Baroumi’s defense team withdrew from the trial in disgust to protest the court’s rejection of several requests made to the court over the year. The requests are vital to prove the defendant’s innocence, and provide the court with all available evidence to enable a fair and just verdict.

My question is, “Why are the Egyptian Courts acting as kangaroo courts and willfully denying this young man the opportunity to prove his innocence?”
Why are the courts denying the tendering of critical evidence that will prove this young mans innocence and expose the frame up by your Government officials?

President Mubarak, it is generally accepted that when the Courts in any country betray it own citizens of fair un bias trials, the courts might as well be wound up and allow anarchy to rule.

What hope do the citizens have when the courts are corrupt, biased and motivated by religious discrimination against their own citizens?
In this case a young Christian man is been “scape goated” to cover up the hideous crimes committed by Muslims against Christians.
Not only would this never happen in a civilized country, if it did occur, the people would revolt and demonstrate in mass and demand true Justice.

Courts are the homes of true justice not persecution. Selective treatment based on the religion of the individual in any court, renders the Court as corrupt an attack on the integrity of the meaning of Justice.

If Egypt is to move towards democracy, Egypt really need to clean out it own house starting from the top down. Egypt needs laws that are rigorously and EQUALLY enforced. Your government needs to send a very clear message to all Egyptians, “every crime will be honestly and impartially investigated without bias, and religious intolerance will not be allowed to pass un punished in Egypt.
The fact the legal team stepped down, is an undisputed reflection of their frustration at a corrupt and bias legal system, headed by corrupt and biased Muslim judges.

Dear president, I find it very difficult to comprehend how in this day and age you allow your courts to act in such a bias manner.
The courts have betrayed the sole purpose of their existence, “the sanctity of true justice for all citizens without fear or favor”.  
To allow the courts to act in such a disgraceful manner is a sad indictment on the Egyptian legal system and a clear sign that Christians can never be treated fairly or equally at any level.

It shocks the world when they see Egyptian courts making a mockery of the justice they purport to uphold, and deny Christian citizens of a fair, unhindered trial and  every opportunity to prove their innocence.

Dr. Chafik, one of the team attorneys who withdrew from the case said his “decision was taken in view of the courts continued rejection of requests that are imperative to providing this poor young man with a fair unbiased trial. The court is refusing a fair and just trial for the accused”. There is no doubt the aim of the court towards the case is a perversion of justice and precursor towards finding Baroumi guilty and mitigating the disgraceful crime of Nag Hammadi, thus by allowing the Muslim perpetrators to escape unpunished.

The defense team made reasonable requests, “an independent medical examination of the defendant, a certificate from the conscription department with the results of his medical examination which led to his rejection from conscription and a survey by the court of the crime scene”. All three requests were rejected by the court, President Mubarak, Why are reasonable requests refused? The Egyptian courts on the weight of this case are a disgrace.

The Coptic community is aggrieved by the lack of justice.

The connection of the two incidents is a perversion of Justice. The Egyptian Courts are sending out a disgraceful message to the Muslim community. Not only have our Coptic families been attacked in a vile manner, the Courts are actually condoning “the Islamic community taking matters into their own hands where there is a perceived crime against a Muslim by a Christian with no rule of law to establish the facts and truth.
Defense attorney Dr. Siham Abdel-Malak, made it clear when he said “To us it feels like the case is taking a religious orientation and the court plans to hand down a guilty verdict, despite the lack of any evidence, material or otherwise, to convict him”.
In addition the government prosecutor is willfully using inflammatory religious language during the proceedings and is not been kerbed by the presiding Judges.

Where is the Justice in Egypt if it does not even exist in a court?

“Why is the prosecutor maliciously accusing Baroumi of being the cause of the sectarian strife which took place in Farshout in November 2009, as well as the death of the Copts on Coptic Christmas Eve in January 2010?

These comments are extremely dangerous and infact act to condone and justify civilian attacks against Christians by the Islamic population.
This demented barbaric unfit Prosecutor even cited a more recent case of Al-Nawahed village, “saying that those who cause sectarian strife ought to be killed or crucified — invoking Sharia Hirabah Penalty. These repulsive discriminatory religious expressions are inciteful and Copts world wide deplore them and object to them in the strongest possible manner.

How can you allow the courts to be used as a platform of religious discrimination? Shariah law is a barbaric, Stone Age legal system that has no place any where in the world. For the Love of God, do not allow Egypt to mirror Iran and Saudi Arabia.
President Mubarak, the Coptic communities worldwide are asking you to personally intervene and bring an end to the miscarriage of Justice.
Religious discrimination in criminal proceedings must not be allowed in any court in any country especially in Egypt where the Christians are the persecuted minority.

The Coptic community is seeking an end to the selective treatment of the Copts and a new era of equal unbiased treatment of all Egyptians inclusive of the Coptic community.

The Coptic community demand that in light of, “The prosecutor’s statements included some Islamic terms that are far away from the terms of criminal law”, he be immediately removed from the case and stood down from his position. In any other country he would be disbarred and possibly charged. He is clearly a fool that is incompetent and biased towards the Coptic community and unfit to hold such an office within the legal system.
President Mubarak, we know you are no fool and you must agree there is no doubt “there are forces at work behind the scenes to get Baroumi convicted”.
Without your direct intervention there is no doubt the court will find Girgis Baroumi guilty, and given the maximum penalty a possible death sentence. This travesty must be stopped, and you are the only one that can stop it.

The Coptic community will not rest until this young man is afforded a fair and unbiased trial. Better still allow the man to leave the country and live abroad, as even if he was found not guilty and acquitted, he will never be safe in Egypt.

As leader of Egypt, we appeal to your sense of righteousness, and ask you to lead by example and pave the way for a renewed Egypt free of religious division and discrimination. Wishing you and all Egyptians a Happy new year, graced with a stealth determination to restore Egypt to its former glory as a civilized nation that continues in its tradition is been the mother of civilization in the worlds history.