In an opinion piece in Watanī newspaper, Editor-in-Chief Yūsuf Sidhum wrote, "In a catastrophic scene which signaled the collapse of the Egyptian State and the absence of the rule of law, a 'happy ending' was on Thursday 16 February worked for the sectarian crisis which had erupted on 27 January in the village of Sharbāt, in al-Nahdah district, al-'Amrīyah.

The Egyptian media enthusiastically hailed the success of the parliamentary fact-finding commission in putting out the 'sectarian' fire.

I wish to draw my readers' attention that it has become a tradition with Egyptian officials and media to term as "sectarian" every attack in which the offender is Muslim and the victim is Copt, thereby making it sound as though both parties are equally to blame. [Yūsuf Sidhum, Watanī, Feb. 26, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic