While going through the Al-Jazeera app on my iPad, I came across a story about a protest in Cairo for the one-year anniversary of a police massacre of 27 Coptic Christians during the Arab Spring revolts. It was reported that over 1000 demonstrators had gathered in the neighborhood of Shobra, a predominately Coptic Christian neighborhood, to the neighborhood of Maspero. Their march echoes the march of the killed Copts, who were part of a group marching to protest the burning of a church in Aswan.
For a long time, I thought that the bulk of the Arab Spring revolts were beginning to wane and leave the world's collective consciousness; the last month has clearly proved me wrong. While these new revolts and attacks are occurring, people have not forgotten the beginning of these movements, and the atrocities committed. I find it very interesting, and oddly heartwarming, that people not only remember those lost in all of the violence but are actively reminding the world of the brutality being committed. So, no matter what some Tea Party politician says, Middle Easterners are just as much people as we are, and are being traumatized by these events.
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