[ELSHIEKH]

Mr. President,
A concern friend sent the the following message. He recently returned from a missionary trip to Egypt and was concerned enough to share his with a number of his Christian friends.
In your battle against terrorism, please include Egypt on your target list as part of your African policy.
You claim to be a Christian, attend church regularly, and I'll accept that. However, If you are born of the Spirit, then the girls in the following message are your sisters in Christ. They are being kidnapped and raped. Their families and churches are being terrorized. These are our Christian sisters.
How about a tourist and/or trade embargo until the national government recognizes the rights of all of their citizens. Or are they the sacrifice silently offered to get Egypt to pull your political butt out of the in Israel?
Don't get me wrong, we as a "Christian" nation should back Israel to the hilt. Turning a blind eye to blatant disregard for individual rights and the terror poured out upon the helpless minority--sisters in Christ--is a mighty high price.

If you chose to do nothing, I suppose we will simply assume that you in some way believe that Muslim women are somehow less desireable or totally unfit to marry Muslim men. Or, perhaps, all of your Christian posturing is nothing more than "showboating" for the next election. If that be the case, God will settle it in His own good time.

Right now, I'm simply asking: Help our sisters!


THE MESSAGE:
A Call to the Political Leaders of Egypt
Montreal, Canada, 25 June 2003

1 - President Mohammad Hosny Moubarak, President of Egypt
2 - Dr. Atef Obeid, Prime Minister of Egypt
3 - Mr. Habib Al-Adly, Minister of Interior
4 - Mr. Maher Abdel-Wahed, Attorney General
5 - Mr. Farouk Seif El-Nasr, Minister of Justice
6 - Dr. Ahmad Fathy Seroor, Speaker of the People's Assembly
7 - Dr. Mostafa Kamal Helmy, President of the Advice Assembly
8 - Dr. Mohammad Said Tantawy, Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque

Phenomena of Kidnapping and Rapping Of Coptic Christian Girls in Egypt

The crimes of kidnapping and rapping Coptic Christian girls in Egypt became
a serious and ugly phenomena. Such crimes did not exist neither in the
Liberal era (1805 - 1952), nor at the time of the late President Nasser.
They surfaced at the time of the late President Sadat and increasedtremendously at the present time of President Moubarak.