Many in the international community – and the Muslim Brotherhood – view the establishment of an interim government as a military takeover.
Sidhom said, “I know very well that the outer Western world has looked at what took place as a military coup, but Egyptians still insist that that was a people’s coup, which was sided by the military.”
Recent violence that erupted when the military moved against pro-Morsi demonstrators left hundreds dead. There was international condemnation of the military. But the editor-in-chief says there’s no going back to a Morsi government, despite demands by the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters. But is the stage being set for a civil war?
“If you had asked me this question six months ago, I would have accepted such a concept. But on June 30, according to most of the estimations, it was an overwhelming 30 million Egyptian people going down to the streets, both Christian and Muslim. It seems that no less than 85 or 90 percent of Egyptians are very relieved to get rid of political Islam led by the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said.
He said that the current violence cannot be described as a civil war.
Many Coptic Christian churches around the country were damaged or destroyed in recent violence. Copts had been viewed by the Muslim Brotherhood as opposing Mr. Morsi. Sidhom says some of the churches also had also been used for Muslim prayers.
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