.... In Egypt, large numbers of Coptic Christians have moved abroad in response to a tide of discrimination and outright oppression. Though still numbering at least 5.1 million of an 80 million-strong population (according to government estimates disputed by the Coptic church), Copts face many professional glass ceilings, and scores of their churches have been attacked by Salafist extremists.
About 600,000 Copts – more than the entire population of Manchester – have left their homeland since the early 1980s. If Mohamed Morsi's new constitution is implemented, the second-class status of Christians will be set in stone. Egypt will stagnate still further in consequence.
[A COMMENT] "Ignorant western assumptions about cultural uniformity are mirrored by Islamists bent on purging other faith groups from their lands."
Great; I was worried for a minute there that you wouldn't find a way to somehow implicate the West in this. [Guardian Cif] Read more
