The horror comes from death arrived with method and from that normal pain that has become habit for us by now. Philosophy is of little use: hatred, moreover, is an ancient litany of the human being and what happens against Christians in the world and in Egypt in particular, must be included in this case. There is no other explanation. We can't give any more.
But the horror of others does not shake, as mentioned above and due to induced cynicism. The cries of others are not enough, no. We need a minimum dose of disappointment to go further and make us feel disdain.
Yes, disdain. Indignation and shame for the silence around and for the few rarefied words. The endemic disease of the comfortable West that loves to despise itself, anointed by the fat of its former opulence, probably struck again.
If it were indifference, it wouldn't even be serious. It would be a drift of the times, almost a sleepy reluctance to move in the lazy adagio of imbello generations, capable of indignant by hearsay, perhaps due to phenomena rebounded from a social platform.
No. It is not indifference that envelops the facts of blood against Christians in the world by now three good decades. There is more.
Pope Benedict XVI said that the pathology of our home is having stopped loving each other. We are suffering from a form of masochism, deferred in soft skepticism, backed by a fair dose of approximation and ignorance. A tenuous but present and widespread rejection of ourselves. A refusal through a service that is dressed as a pedantic irony and bored detachment, so apathetic that it doesn't even know how to produce ideals. There was Voltaire, we would have a bank. We limit ourselves to galloping towards a nothing immersed in violence.
A whale is harpooned in Japan, the square moves; a parrot dies in Guinea, he protests at the UN; dozens of Christians are slaughtered on Palm Sunday, they barely move, with words of circumstance, discontinuous and fragile. It is said what is convenient to say, it deplores itself in a vacuum with haste and hassle. It is highly recommended to respect religious freedom, without specifying. Freedom yes, freedom, always that ...
We said it at the time (read article) for the anti-Christian massacres in India and Pakistan. As if it were inevitable, being a Christian becomes a sin for which paying seems necessary. As if it were a choice that deserves a "Well you are, because you are out of fashion and out of place". After all "In the past we Christians were the Inquisition ...". The story taken in sales and in pills is always convenient. Meanwhile, however, we die ... 
Yesterday (Sunday 9 April, nda) in Egypt, Tanta and Alexandria, Islamic fundamentalism interrupted and devastated hundreds of lives, profaning an ancient celebration, of which the West hardly remembers. Egyptian President Al Sisi, caught in the grip of fundamentalism between the Caliphate and Muslim brotherhood, reacts and imposes a state of emergency for three months. For us, instead, it is little more than a news note.
The question is serious, very serious. Egypt is a carcass full of things and pains. Right on Online Defense (read article) we talked about how the Arab country is decisive in the Middle Eastern chessboard. The real game is played here.
From the 2014 Al Sisi has pulled the strings trying to put things right, but Islamic extremism among the Pyramids is more powerful every day. The country's impressive security apparatus is jerking. Millions of uniformed men among the armed forces, police and paramilitaries do not have much against those with money, support and motivation. Egyptian police conscripts, in the lower ranks, pay 150 $ a month. How can corruption, collusion and negligence be avoided?
The noises of Piazza Tarhir are still recent. The sense of distrust and distrust is general. The President's first purges started and special forces lined up, but it was an instinctive reaction. The militarization of the country is accompanied by a now stratified sense of powerlessness.
Egypt is a powder keg under which the fire continues to burn. Alone he cannot fight a vital battle not only for his own interests. But we are not there. Yes we do: we Westerners, we Europeans and above all we Italians who host an enormous Egyptian community; we who had special economic ties but who from Regeni onwards, have taken strange steps and returned to the kennel ... Yes, we ourselves, who on the public network limit ourselves to telling about the massacre of Coptic Christians as routine, without a soul, without participation. For us, careful not to disturb any sensitivity, a bomb that kills in the name of a creed is as good as the others, perhaps less so.
While Egypt is boiling, our problem is gangrene. We believe we tolerate and for this we become intolerant, absurdly with ourselves. There is no worse form of discrimination than that which arises from arrogance, from a fashionable moral law adapted to the commonplace of the moment. With automatic indifference we produce double-track understanding, capable of making us value for an imposed value and leaving us cold for what must no longer be worth.
We cannot speak of religious hatred. Defending Christianity has become a secular blasphemy. We are even forbidden to think of it. After the attack in Stockholm, the media reported the words of Karin Vanngard, the mayor of the Swedish capital who spoke of openness necessary to diversity. The context did not require it, but that is the first datum emerged. On 56 articles that spoke of the fact, in well 48 the Islamic matrix was cited only incidentally or at the end of the article (press review Defense Online, 7 April 2017).
But is this really the West? Are we really like that?
It must be a strange deformation but we seem to be wrapped in a spiral where we spend our time looking for what leads us, rather than what unites us.
In a few hours, this slaughter in Egypt will disappear from the pages of newspapers and agencies. Yet another Christian bloodbath will be filed to make room for something new and more useful. Its origins and its consequences will melt into the void while participation in pain will remain a video game.
Soon we will also stop waiting: the marginal horror will become null and then there will not even be that minimal amount of disappointment to make us feel disdain.
(photo: القوات المسلحة المصرية)
