Gr33ndata, Global Voices

Egyptian blogger Zeinobia attacks Pope Shenouda
III in one of her recent posts here,
for his Easter speech this year.

Still I feel so sad and angry from what the Pope Shounda said and did this
Easter from praying for Mubarak to have longer life !! and warning his people
from listening to those vandals over the Internet who will be sent to hell !!??

She continues:

For the Muslims this is something usual ,I know from long time that the
speeches of the Emam in the Mosque in our neighbourhood are approved by the
security , so I do not care much for what they said , not to mention that the
religious men in Islam do not have this holy status of the religious men in
Christianity.
But for someone like Pope Shounda in his position comes and says these nonsense
about those facebookers who will be roasted in hell , then we need a stand
here.

She ends her post with:

There is no excuse for the Pope or the for Sheikh of Al-Azhar in fact I will dare and
say that they should fear the Lord not the President

Cyberactivism, blogging and the use of Facebook has recently come under the
scrutiny of Egyptian officials, following claims that a nation-wide strike on April
6, which culminated with the Mahalla workers revolt. Several bloggers as
well as the founder of a Facebook group named April 6 were among hundreds of
activists, politicians and passer-bys detained by the authorities on the day
and the days which followed. That said, the fact remains that it wasn't the
Facebook group which has led to the strike and workers calling for higher wages
and better salaries to meet increasing living expenses.