Troubles on the Nile

Submitted by Erich W (United States), Jan 31, 2011 at 15:29

Is it not true, that when Muslims struggle politically with Muslims, it is the non-Muslims in their midst, the so called "protected peoples" who suffer most? At this time of political change in Egypt, we need to keep our eye on what is happening to the Copts. We need to calculate the impact of having eleven or twelve million Coptic refugees from Egypt seeking new places live over the next decade. It would be fine if events turned out more fortunate than that. On the other hand, public rhetoric against the Copts has been getting more intense. Gratuitous crimes against them have long been tolerated. It is not only Mubarek that might make them pay the price for some new political order. A Muslim scholar told an American scholar that "all Copts are rich." The American asked, "Really, how did they become rich?" The jealous Egyptian said darkly, "They do all the ironing in Egypt." What will Egypt look like when everyone has a wrinkled shirt?

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