the “operation” of these men who
disrespected and attacked the Ansar,
informing them every step of the way.
At this time, the street in front of the
began speeding up and they seemed in building was becoming full of
a hurry and very unorganized.
neighborhood onlookers, police, large
American embassy told us to get our
or more prisoners in each truck),
Things became more tense when the
passports back from them. This put
many thoughts in our heads, and keep
in mind we still do not know who
these men were. Allah knew best, but
perhaps they were police, but there
are many stories about salafi groups
that go around looking for those who
believe and follow the Ahlul Bayt (as)
in Egypt. There was a great deal
happening at once, but MashaAllah
the brothers and sisters were handling
the situation the best they could.
Some of the Arabic speaking brothers
were trying to get more information
from the men, and met very cold and
quick responses. Some of the Ansar
were being very calm and sitting up
against the wall. Several of us were
trying to make our way through the
making the calls.
SubhanaAllah you could feel the
energy change and the fear coming
crowd, speaking english and letting
police trucks (that could haul away 30
employees of different stores, and even
reporters were gathering and taking
pictures of the building and all that
was happening.
After seeing the large police trucks, we
knew these men were from the
Egyptian Government, but they did not
seem like your average police at all,
and we began wondering what their
intention was with us. One of the
brothers asked if they were going to
arrest us, or shoot us, or what it was
exactly they were here for and
wanting to do. Yet again, it was met
with cold and short responses and we
just did not know, so many thoughts
run through your mind and our only
concern was for all the brothers and
sisters.
them know that this was not right and Things got very tense when the Ansar
there was nothing criminal here and
heard the scream of a woman in the
outnumbered us and who were much
asking why we were being treated like stair-well and we believed it was one
this. At the same time, some were
of the Ansariya, and many of us
raising up in the air and those behind
some of the men, while we were
embassy on the phone! Me too I'm
as there were several women there,
from these huge men, who
greater size, when phones started
trying to lighten up the matter with
them saying: “I have the American
checking on the brothers and sisters,
talking to the British embassy! I'm
including a 13 year old. Also we had
calling the French embassy right now! the aspect of ensuring the sisters who
did not attend the Jummah prayer
Anyone have the number to the
Spanish embassy! Here is the number, were getting somewhere safe, as we
assumed that the rest of the
someone call the Swedish embassy!
Someone get the numbers for the
Turkish, Serbian, Pakistani, and other
apartments would be approached as
well, and at the same time keeping
embassies!” At this time you could see online with the embassies and
9
rushed through the crowd of men, and
they tried stopping us, but not with
full force and we made it out to the
stairs, where they showed us that it
was just a neighbor downstairs
screaming. Once we realized it was
not a sister, we complied with the men
and went back into the masjid where
we were aggressively told to get
against the wall and be quiet.
The men refused to speak with the
embassies on the phone and they