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The ”Copts For a Day” Experiment

By Sally Bishai Recently, and after many “escape from studying” discussions I’ve had with other intellectuals involved in the worldwide human rights struggle—including several Egyptians of both major faiths—I have begun to wonder about several things relating to the alleged inequality... Read more ...

Published on 01/04/2007 in Christians Under Attack
The Price of Refusing Islam

In years past, the price of refusing Islam—for Copts in Egypt , anyway—included either paying the Jizia (Humiliation Tax), or dying by the sword. (Some entrepreneurial Muslims had the clever idea of collecting the tax and THEN ramming their swords into their victim’s midsection.) Read more ...

Published on 08/13/2006 in Christians Under Attack