[scouse]

Copts make up about 10% of Egypt's 70 million population.

The Copts were also there before there was such a thing as Islam.

[aristeides]

The Moslems in Egypt are collaborators or descendants of collaborators with the Arab invaders. The Copts are the true Egyptians. Coptic, their liturgical language, which they no longer speak, is the most recent form of the Egyptian language. I have read that, as late as the time of the Crusades, a majority of the population of Egypt was still Christian.

I have also read that the Coptic Church, which is still monophysite (i.e., believing Christ only had one, divine nature,) adopted the monophysite heresy as a kind of nationalism in opposition to the Greek ruling class in Roman Egypt, which was orthodox Christian. I don't know if the evidence supports this view -- it could be 19th- and 20th-century scholars imposing their modes of thought on past evebts.

[VOA]

The Copts were also there before there was such a thing as Islam.

A Coptic Christian lady called into a radio show here in Los Angeles a few months ago.
Her basic message:
Muslims don't move into your country to be citizens of your county.
They move in to TAKE your country and make sure you become Muslim as well.