October 22, 2011Are Christians Welcome in the New Mideast?James Traub, Foreign Policy
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The sickening violence inflicted on Coptic Christian demonstrators in Cairo on Oct. 9 shocked Egyptians, and may have ended for good whatever remaining faith democracy activists had in the country's interim military government, which appears to have orchestrated the violence. But Copts have been suffering attacks with growing regularity over the last several years, and this latest outburst only increased the fears among them that their status in Egypt, and possibly even their survival as a community, is now in jeopardy. TAGGED: Middle East, Christians RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
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