Egypt: New Year’s Eve Church Bombing Draws Condemnation · Global Voices
Tarek Amr

Just few minutes after the clock in Egypt announced the beginning of 2011, a bomb exploded in front of a cathedral in Alexandria where over 1,000 worshipers had gathered to welcome the new year. Twenty-one people were killed, and another 79 injured in the worst church bombing in over a decade in Egypt.
Just two days before the end of 2010, Ragi Shokri wrote in his blog, Ain Fe AlGanna, about his fears and wishes for the new year. He said:
But destiny was generous enough to give the Egyptians a few minutes of celebration, before they were hit by the news of the Alexandria explosion that ended all their celebrations. Zenobia broke the news of the explosion in her blog:
Sara El Sayeh, just like almost all of the Egyptian bloggers, expressed her anger over the bombing:
Sara then continued:
Zenobia wrote here blaming the Ministry of Interior's carelessness in securing the Church, especially that some Salafy groups threatened to attack the churches in Egypt and published on their web-forums a list of the churches to be targeted, including the Two Saints Church.
Zeinobia also blamed the government for not announcing national mourning.
The million dollar question now is who is behind this attack. The head of the state blamed the explosion on “foreign hands” seeking to undermine Egypt's security, stability and unity. Zeinobia summed up the reasons for bloggers to accuse Al-Qaeda, Israel, or even the regime itself. Meanwhile, the blogger in “The Egypt Silent Majority” had a different point of view:
He then continued to state the symptoms and evidence that prove that there is something wrong with the Egyptian society. And here are some of them:
And finally, the reactions everywhere whether on Facebook or offline, and those who called for Muslims to attend the Coptic Christians masses on the 7th of January [Ar] made Maggie Ossama believe that such incident will never be able to break the unity of the Egyptian people regardless of their religion or race: