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The Christian Exodus From Egypt; For Copts, a persecuting dictator was preferable to the Islamist mob.
Topic Started: October 13, 2012, 9:53 am (528 Views)
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The Christian Exodus From Egypt
October 11, 2012, 6:49 p.m. ET
For Copts, a persecuting dictator was preferable to the Islamist mob.
By SAMUEL TADROS
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Visit any Coptic church in the United States and you immediately recognize the newcomers. You see it in their eyes, hear it in their broken English, sense it in how they cling to the church in search of the familiar. They have come here escaping a place they used to call home, where their ancestors had lived for centuries.

Waves of Copts have come here from Egypt before, to escape Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalizations or the growing Islamist tide. Their country's transformation wasn't sudden, but every year brought more public Islamization. As the veil spread, Coptic women felt increasingly different, alien and marked. Verbal abuse came from schoolteachers, bystanders in the bus station who noticed the cross on a wrist, or commentators on state television.
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cricket55
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Would have left a long time ago myself.
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Heather

Especially if I were a parent.
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