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They stated that Coptic Christians were the "real and original" Egyptians and that the "others who live in Egypt are all Arabs, not Egyptians." The couple seemed to convey a sense that they were of a higher class and better ethnicity than "other Egyptians."

It stems from a feeling of having their country stolen from them by Muslim conquerors and squatters, which is in fact what happened.

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"It stems from a feeling of having their country stolen from them by Muslim conquerors and squatters, which is in fact what happened."

Actually, the Coptics themselves facilitated the Muslim conquest of Egypt when the Arabs promised that they could practice their religion openly (after the poll tax), whereas the Greek Catholics from the Byzantine empire tried suppressing the Coptics. The small Byzantine army in Egypt was slaughtered by rear attack from the Coptics and the Arabs invited in. Even though that was over 1400 years ago, they still are paying the price for their ancestor's decisions.