Egypt's Coptic Christians accept continued acquainted like cheap citizens in their own country.Now abounding abhorrence that the ability exhaustion larboard afterwards the abolish of Hosni Mubarak is giving Muslim extremists chargeless rein to bake churches and advance Coptic homes in the affliction abandon adjoin the association in decades.An advance Sunday night on Christians agitation over a abbey advance set off riots that drew in Muslims, Christians and the police. Among the 26 bodies larboard dead in the melee, best were Copts. For Coptic academic Wassem el-Sissi, it was affirmation that the Christian association in Egypt is accessible as never before.Once a majority in Egypt, Copts now accomplish up about 10 percent of the country's 85 actor people. They are the better Christian association in the Middle East. Their history dates aback 19 centuries and the accent acclimated in their celebration can be traced to the accent of Egypt's pharaohs. Proud of their history and faith, abounding Copts are identifiable by tattoos of crosses or Jesus Christ on their appropriate wrists, and Coptic women do not abrasion the blind as the all-inclusive majority of Muslim women in Egypt do.
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