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Originally Posted by chateabriand
i think you watched that in a hollywood movies ..
cuz i've a christian friend and my neighbor is a christian too .. for example at my country ther's 10 % of people are christians , they live with us in peace , my teachr was christian .. we visit them and they too .. ther's no problem in it
please try to read more about islam from truth sources and don't depend on movies cuz it's not real
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Really? That's nice about your neighbor and your christian(sic) friend... and such. But explain the following if you would (or can). I didn't get it from TV or movies but from a group called CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY WORLDWIDE. I sure would like to get your take on the following. It looks as if the Christians there don't think they 'live in peace' or that 'ther's no problem in it.'
EGYPT
BIO The Coptic Orthodox church is the largest in Egypt and the entire Middle East. It is approximately 7-10 million strong (10% of the population), but since the church in Egypt is not allowed to carry out an official census, accurate figures are difficult to ascertain. The Egyptian Church faces persecution and hardship in a number of spheres:
Law
The distinction between civil law and Shar'ia (Islamic Law) in Egypt has been deliberately eroded over the years. Significantly, in 1980, the National Assembly accepted an amendment to the Constitution, designating Shar'ia as “the…principal source of legislation” instead of “a…prin-iple source of legislation”.
Government Positions and Employment
Egypt’s Coptic community is poorly represented in the higher levels of government, in the military and in senior teaching positions. Out of 28 Egyptian governors, none are Christian and there are no Christian ambassadors, heads of universities or deans. The country’s People’s Assembly contains just seven Copts, only three of whom are elected—a gross under-representation.
Education
Coptic Christians are not able to attend the famous Al-Azhar University in Cairo. The Coptic language is not taught at Universities and the Coptic era in Egyptian history has been omitted in school history lessons, until this year, where it has been taught in state schools for the first time. The Koran is often used to teach the Arabic language to students, including Christians, and Arabic language teachers are Muslim. Every school has a mosque, but no similar places of prayer exist for Christians.
Church construction
State control of church property is governed by the outdated Ottoman Hamayouni Decree of 1856, amplified by the Interior Ministry in 1934 as the Alazabi Decree. This decree sets out certain restrictive conditions which must be met before a church can be built. It additionally requires the signature of the President before construction can commence. No such signature is required in order to build a mosque.
Conversion
Individuals who convert from Islam to Christianity face discrimination and violence from their family, Muslim neighbors, or the state police. Furthermore, a Muslim wife is required to divorce an apostate husband; converts from Islam lose all inheritance rights; they also lose custody of their children and they are unable to change their religious affiliation on state identity cards. No similar legal consequences befall converts from Christianity to Islam.
Recent examples of religious intolerance against Christians
The past decade has seen a rise in violent attacks by Islamic extremists, followed by severe government crackdowns on their activity in an attempt to put an end to the violence and to regain control. Unfortunately, violence against Christians still continues but state police and/or Muslim mobs are increasingly becoming the perpetrators. Such violence has gone unpunished by the Egyptian legal system in recent years.
In January 2000, in El-Kosheh village, Upper Egypt, 21 Coptic Christians were killed over the course of a few days’ rioting. The General Prosecutor’s report of his investigation into the incident blames the massacre on delinquent elements within both the Muslim and Christian communities, disappointing Egypt’s Coptic Christians who note that all except one of the casualties of the violence were Christians. Concern has also been expressed that no police officers were detained or interrogated, despite the testimony of Copts regarding police negligence and complicity in the violence.
Finally, in a verdict handed down on February 5, 2001, an Egyptian court acquitted all but four of the ninety-six people charged with crimes relating to the violence. None were convicted with murder. This verdict outraged Egyptian Christians and human rights activists all over the world. However, a request to appeal the verdict has been successful and the case will be retried.
In June 2000, Coptic Christian, William Shaiboub Arsal, was sentenced to 15 years with hard labor for the murder of two Christian men in El-Kosheh village in August 1998. The murders were the catalyst for the notorious El-Kosheh incident (since dubbed El-Kosheh I), in which over 1000 local Coptic Christians were detained by police, despite the fact that three Muslim men were identified as responsible. Many of those detained were tortured by local police officers, including William, who was first taken into custody on September 17, 1998. He was hung upside down by his feet, beaten, tied to a chair and given electric shocks to sensitive parts of his body.
William Shaiboub’s lawyers have confirmed that his verdict is being appealed at the Egyptian Court of Cassation. In the meantime, William remains in prison.
What is common to both these episodes is that police negligence and complicity has gone unquestioned and unpunished. Egypt’s Christian community is understandably feeling very vulnerable and inadequately protected by national law.
Overall Human Rights Situation
Major human rights organizations continue to report the systematic use of torture by police and security forces to obtain confessions. Prisoners of conscience continue to be sentenced and held. Political parties, NGOs and the news media continue to face legal restrictions and government control.
In May 1999, a law regulating civil institutions including NGOs was passed by the Egyptian Parliament. This imposed a wide range of restrictive conditions, including criminal penalties for offenses that might amount to no more than the exercise of freedom of association.
http://www.cswusa.com/Countries/Egypt.htm