[Imal]

If I recall correctly, over 90% of the Coptics were slaughtered by the Muslims when they first invaded Egypt, and the other 10% haven't been treated much better.

Being a religious minority in a Muslim nation is no picnic, and the trend in recent years has been for Muslims to chase non-Muslims out entirely, versus simply taxing them and abusing them under dhimmi laws like in the past (after killing most of them, of course).

As for what the future may hold for Coptics, I suspect the answer to that question is intimately tied to what the future holds for Islam.

[olde north church]

It's unfortunate Pope John Paul II desire to free the Poles and other Eastern European from the yoke of Communist oppression didn't extend to the emancipation of Catholics and other Christians from the tyranny of muslim theocracy.
Did somebody say Crusade?

[geros]

"If I recall correctly, over 90% of the Coptics were slaughtered by the Muslims when they first invaded Egypt, and the other 10% haven't been treated much better. "
Actually they left them unmolested for several hundred years, because the only wife of Mohammed to give him a child was Egyptian (Coptic), and Mohammed left specific instructions to be nice to them. Later on though some were killed if they couldn't pay their dhimmi taxes.

[Austin Willard Wright]

90 percent? Where did you get that figure. The conversion was gradual not sudden. Egypt still had a Christian majority as late as the 11th century.