The Real War on Christians
The plight of Egypt’s Copts grows worse.
December 19, 2016
The Real War on Christians
The plight of Egypt’s Copts grows worse.
Earlier this month, an Islamic State suicide bomber infiltrated St. Peter and St. Paul’s Coptic Church in Cairo and killed 25 worshipers—the deadliest such attack since a 2010 bombing in Alexandria and a reminder of the Egyptian state’s failure to protect the lives of its religious and ethnic minorities. But, writes Samuel Tadros, “it is [the Copts’] daily encounter with discrimination and persecution that poses the greatest threat to their future.” This threat springs from deep, willed ignorance on the part of Egyptian Muslims:
December 19, 2016
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Bringing Jewish music back from the ashes of Kristallnacht.
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