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Christians are Fleeing Egypt (1999)
Egypt
1999 (1950-1999)
Copts complain they must pay ''gezia,'' a kind of protection tax, which Islamists say is grounded in Koranic law. Copts who have resisted have been threatened with death. Some have been killed.
416 posted on 12/09/2004 9:46:40 PM PST by miltonim (Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
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Christian Copts on Prejudice in Egypt & Saudi Arabia
Egypt, Saudi Arabia
November 2002
The Sheikh reprimanded the viewer for having a Christian friend in the first place – Muslims were not permitted to take Christian friends. He then went on to advise the viewer to keep the item in question for himself, since all possessions of kuffaar [non-believers] were the rightful property of Muslims.”
417 posted on 12/09/2004 10:12:54 PM PST by miltonim (Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
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