Egypt's Coptic Christians Under Attack

Islamic terrorists and Egyptian state police are being implicated in the isolation and persecution of the nation's seven million Coptic Christians.

Catholic News Service:

The Catholic News Service reports that the American Coptic Union (ACU) claims in a recent letter that human rights abuses against the Copts have been escalating since September 11, 2001, and the Egyptian government has not responded with any protection. ACU is a nonprofit organization that represents Coptic people in the US and Egypt.

"The daily horrors of shame-rape, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, and forced conversion, particularly in the southern part of Upper Egypt, are seriously eroding the Copts' economic, social, and religious existence," says the letter to the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ahead of her meeting with the Egyptian government.

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"While the Egypt government continues to isolate its Coptic population, it has never discussed the constitutional rights of Egypt's Christians nor has it legislated any new laws or presidential decrees to ensure human rights for the Copts," it reads. "In fact, human rights activists are often harassed, attacked and falsely imprisoned."

As I recall, the international community took action to to stop ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. Why is it allowed to occur in Egypt? Also, given the enormity of millions of Egyptian Coptics being persecuted by the religion of peace AND Egyptian state security, why are we not seeing front page headlines about it?

Furthermore, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch should worry less about how fat Gitmo detainees are and focus serious emphasis on real human rights violations.