For their part, the Coptic youth movement Maspero Youth issued a statement in which it declared its deep concern at the dominion of the Islamist currents. They revealed their total discontent with the raising of the Saudi flag by the Islamists, and said they were fully prepared to defend the option of an Egyptian civil State that would secure equality, freedom, and social justice, just as they confronted—to the point of shedding their blood—the tyranny of the former regime.