I am well aware that there are fearless moderate giants on both sides. I am also well aware that the initiative appears unattainable and the consequences may be dire. Yet the combined effort was seen during the effort to ouster the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled temporary President of Egypt, Morsi. In Tahrir square the Muslim protected the Copts while they were performing their religious rites and the Copts stood sentinels for their brothers to pray to Allah. We were the envy of the world. Our combined faith put to shame the extremists.