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From: JNS News
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Subject: Despite setbacks for Islamic State, Egypt's Coptic Christians remain at risk
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:34:59 +0000
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Despite setbacks for Islamic
State, Egypt's Coptic
Christians remain at risk
Turkey's Erdogan looks
abroad with menace
Netanyahu: $15.3 billion Intel ... Mobileye deal to create The interior of Cairo's Coptic St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, where 29
Christians were killed in a December 2016 Islamic State terror attack
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hoisted placards
demanding freedom and jobs, not Korans. The Brotherhood, which so
many Coptic Christians and secular Egyptians fear may win control
of a new Egyptian government ... democratic
systems in Egypt—functioning political parties, the rule of law,
protection of the Coptic Christians and other minorities, respect for
the individual and for the right to dissent ... departure. In early March, a
Muslim mob attacked Christians protesting the razing of a Coptic
church just south of Cairo. Thirteen people were killed and 140
wounded. Mubarak's police
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conditions of the Copts, the
US demanded the Brotherhood approve the establishment of a Coptic
university, along the lines of Al-Azhar University. The Brotherhood
rejected this suggestion ... Egypt. Moreover, Al-Azhar University has
existed for decades.
However, regarding the issue of Coptic rights, the Muslim Brotherhood
reassured the US by agreeing that the Copts may address their ... based on their own religious customs. They also approved a unified
law for all Coptic houses of worship and on allocating official positions to
Coptic officials.
Regarding the issue
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dominated Egypt? And what does
it mean for the country's liberal minorities—the Coptic Christian
community, the moderate Muslim upper class, the remaining handful
of Jews, and middle-class ... country,
Sawiris has to remember and respect that." In response to the cartoon,
a Coptic friend posted on Facebook a message that "the revolution
was about unity, not such attacks
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ongoing
reform, [but they are] just using some beautiful words."
The country's Coptic Christians are particularly worried. Since March
2011, thousands of Copts have left Egypt for fear ... been threatened, vandalized,
and set ablaze because of his high-profile work on Coptic issues. Morsi has
promised to name a Copt as vice president, but many say they want
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leading Brothers even
describe themselves as Salafist in ideology. Many secular Egyptians,
too, especially Coptic Christians, who make up an increasingly
beleaguered 10% minority, see little difference between rival
Islamists ... equality will be restricted by the sharia." This implies that
Egypt's millions of Coptic Christians will lose their citizenship and
women will be denied equality.
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Salafism
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foundations of a pious,
Muslim state.
Those anxieties have caused some liberals and Coptic leaders to support
the military in its feud with the Brotherhood, and even to call ... intention to take sides,"
said Mr. Sidhom, who edits a newspaper that deals with Coptic concerns.
He said that Mrs. Clinton, noting the Brotherhood's political skills, spoke
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foundations of a pious, Muslim state.
Those anxieties have caused some liberals and Coptic leaders to
support the military in its feud with the Brotherhood, and even
to call ... intention to
take sides," said Mr. Sidhom, who edits a newspaper that deals
with Coptic concerns. He said that Mrs. Clinton, noting the
Brotherhood's political skills, spoke
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foundations of a pious, Muslim state.
Those anxieties have caused some liberals and Coptic leaders to
support the military in its feud with the Brotherhood, and even
to call ... intention to
take sides," said Mr. Sidhom, who edits a newspaper that deals
with Coptic concerns. He said that Mrs. Clinton, noting the
Brotherhood's political skills, spoke
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respecting the rights of all
Egyptian citizens -- including women and religious minorities such as
Coptic Christians," and noting that it is "essential" for Egypt to maintain its
role ... Fight the Zionist Project in
Sharqiyah, and drafted the Brotherhood's anti-women, anti-Coptic election
platform just five years ago.
Such clarity will also offer a clue
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ongoing reform, [but they are] just
using some beautiful words."
The country's Coptic Christians are particularly worried. Since
March 2011, thousands of Copts have left Egypt for fear ... been threatened, vandalized, and set ablaze
because of his high-profile work on Coptic issues. Morsi has
promised to name a Copt as vice president, but many say they
want
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ongoing reform, [but they are] just
using some beautiful words."
The country's Coptic Christians are particularly worried. Since
March 2011, thousands of Copts have left Egypt for fear ... been threatened, vandalized, and set ablaze
because of his high-profile work on Coptic issues. Morsi has
promised to name a Copt as vice president, but many say they
want
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recent
weeks, the movement has publicly (if only verbally) clashed with liberals,
the Coptic Church, the Islamic university of al-Azhar, Salafis, the military,
the media and the judiciary ... allow the Brotherhood to impose a more socially conservative and
sectarian vision on Egypt. Coptic Christians recently withdrew from
Constitutional Assembly, following liberal groups that had already done
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