Egyptian presidential candidate: switching religions "is 'a personal right' and that religious groups and state should refrain from seeking to supervise religious conversion."
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What Egypt’s Leading Islamist Presidential Candidate Thinks About Christians “God in the Holy Qur’an protects human dignity and that includes all humanity. Unfortunately the West has drawn incorrect conclusions because of ultra-conservative Islamists.”
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Un-merry Christmas in Egypt
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The situation in Egypt for Christians is becoming increasingly dire. Quoted from Silent Night:
In Egypt, the “Arab Spring” is going so swimmingly that Copts are already fleeing Egypt and, for those Christians that remain, Midnight Mass has to be held in the daylight for security reasons.
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Coptic Christians are "a cowed population in terms of politics. They are afraid and marginalized"
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Christians Face Murky Future After Egypt Polls The church “might not survive what’s coming”
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Muslim Brotherhood dominates in Egypt's election
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36 of 56 seats in parliament 37% of ballots in the provinces ”a 100-person council will guide the newly-elected parliament in drafting a new constitution”
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Islamists on track to dominate Egyptian parliament
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Bottom line: A supermajority, or something close to it, of the new Egyptian parliament will be Islamist. Wonderful.
The Journal says the unofficial split is 50 percent for the Muslim Brotherhood and 15 percent for the even more radical Salafists. The Times says it’s more like 40 percent for the Brotherhood and 25 percent for the Salafists.
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The Christians of Egypt
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Egypt’s Christians are second-class citizens. They were second-class citizens during the rule of Hosni Mubarak, and they aren’t remotely likely to acquire new rights after his fall. Westerners think religious freedom in Egypt means Muslims can opt out of being Muslims. But it’s a completely false supposition. No Muslim doesn’t want to be a Muslim. It’s part of their being. So when Egyptians talk about freedom and revolution, it has nothing to do with Islam.
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