At first we thought our role was like the riot police, but we soon saw how different it really was. After that day I’ll never understand how any security agency, anywhere in the world, can think that violence is an effective way to deal with a crowd – whether furious or terrified. Who convinced every government on earth that armed confrontation calms the masses down? We had no weapon to face down their rage but our embraces, and with tears of mourning we managed to drive out the fallacy of a militaristic sectarian reality with the truth of the dream of a free Egypt.
