General Tantāwī of the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces stated the most urgent needs of Egypt rest in its economic and security stabilization. He promised he would not allow any forces to divide the national unity of Egyptians along religious lines, mentioning specifically that sit-ins harm the economy and provide opportunity for ‘thugs’ to wreak havoc toward their self-serving goals. Coptic protestors at the Egyptian TV building at Maspero, Cairo, state that Egyptian media reports about them have been dishonest and that army and police officers have insufficiently or not protected them against thugs attacking them, many of them who appear to be Salafists.