[ncountylee]

What Copts fear? Having their heads cut off?

[SJackson]

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Prominent Coptic thinker and urban planner Milad Hanna was one of the first to express Coptic fears out loud when he told the local press, "If the Muslim Brothers come to power, Egypt will be an Islamic state like Iran and Sudan...The day the Muslim Brothers win more than 50 per cent, the rich Copts will leave the country and the poorer Copts will stay. Perhaps some of them will be converted... I hope I die before this happens."

A middle eastern Christian who get's it.

The Muslim Brotherhood is illegal in Egypt of course. But just as the State Dept. calls members of Hamas running for office "businessmen" rather than terrorists, MB members run as "independents".

[TheCrusader]

"The Brotherhood, for its part, repeated assertions that its slogan ('Islam is the solution'), meant that Islamic civilisation is the reference of a "non-discriminatory" agenda, which gives precedence to citizenship."

Sure, Islamic civilisation is 'non-discriminatory'. Just ask all those Christians living in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Indonesia how 'non-discriminatory' Islam is.

[eleni121]

"... three Copts had been working in the political office of the group's founder Hassan El-Banna as further proof that the Brotherhood was never anti-Coptic. "

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There have always been snaky collaborators with the beast of Islam...Copts too.