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October 12, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444358804578014733288327450.html

The Christian Exodus from Egypt

(Wall Street Journal) Samuel Tadros - Hosni Mubarak crushed the Islamist insurgency of the 1980s and '90s. He was no friend to the Copts, but neither was he foe. Then came last year's revolution. A dictator could be bought off. With the mob you stood no chance. The collapse of the police liberated the Islamists, who quickly dominated national politics but were even more powerful in the streets and villages. When Coptic homes and shops were looted in a village near Alexandria in January, the Copts were ordered to evacuate the village. The writer is a research fellow at the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom.

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