Coptic Christian Bishop Daniel met with the Swiss Minister of exterior at the St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church, during the minister’s recent visit. The bishop said that, formally, the Church enjoys good relations with the state and Al Azhar, which represents Islam in Egypt, but less formally, on the ground, “there is still a need for society to be aware of the rights of citizenship,” regardless of religion.
He also pointed out something that many, including Western dignitaries, are often unaware of: “The Christians are the original inhabitants of the nation and not foreign imports…. One of the problems of the East is that some are not good at dialogue, but rather try to infringe on the other who is different either in religion, gender, or otherwise.”

Charli Main says
Coptic Christians, the direct descendants of the Ancient Egyptians, non-citizens in their 8,000 year old ancestral homeland, since the invasion of Muslims from Saudi Arabia around 642 AD.
Allan says
Fools on the north side of the sea do not care, for they are blinded by their hatred for Christianity, a mere lamb in comparison to a wolf called Islam.
BRIAN MORGAN says
ISLAM IS THE ANTI-CHRIST.
Keith says
European leaders don’t care about that. They want to import more and more of the enemy as it doesn’t affect them at all, YET.
They will regret it eventually of course.
abad says
Liberals cannot be bothered with facts like that.
R Russell says
The Copts are the descendants of the same race as the Pharaohs. The Arabs conquered them.
Like in many places, the heritage of a people can be ascertained by the origin of their names.
pat says
He is correct. The Arabs were invaders. The original inhabitants were Jews, Egyptians, Assyrians. All with some Greek by the time the Arabs arrived.
Paul Clark says
Let us all be “original” Christians. Let us pick up the cross and defend the Coptic Christians. As a Protestant I do not believe the same way as they do, but remember….”first they came after….then they came after us.” Islam hates all religion, except their demonic cult, and they will kill all that disagree with them. The Western has millions of people and millions of dollars to help stop this scourge. Where are they? Are they apathetic, moral cowards or selfish? Pray they will have courage, faith and strength to help their mid-Eastern Christian brothers.
Allan says
Life is easier when your greatest concerns are your investment portfolio, your fantasy football team, and your desire to be ruled by knaves who promise to socialize the costs of your alleged caring about the poor and needy.
Kenneth T Tellis says
It is time for all the descendants of the Arabian Islamic invaders to leave all the Christian and Jewish lands they now occupy illegally. Among these are Assyria, Iruk, (IRAQ) Egypt, (Aram Lebanon & Syria) and Israel, and the Yazidi enclaves of Iraq. The Spanish defeated and drove out the Moors who came to occupy Spain in 711 A.D, by Ibn Aziz TARIQ in 1492 under El Cid (Don Rodrigo de Vivar). Now let us Christians unite and drive out Muslims from all of the Middle East back to Arabia or Saudi Arabia their original homeland. The time has come to break the chains of the Islamic enslavers and set all Christians in the Middle East free.
desidude2 says
But Obama was there in Egypt singing the praises of the arab muslim invaders and islam ion general. I don’t recall him singing the praises of the Coptic Christians and their 8,000 year old civilization which had nothing to do with islam.
Walter Sieruk says
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There are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn their Bibles. One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
billybob says
“Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible.”
I think “false religious teachers” was an unfortunate choice of words. These religious teachers are not false. They are true to their religion. Islam plagiarizes and distorts the teachings of Christianity and Judaism. Also Allah was the moon god, elevated to serve the needs of Muhammad. But can we say Islam is a “false religion”? That depends on how you define a religion. A quick Google search gave me this…
Religion
The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
So I guess we can’t call Islam a false religion. It is a real religion, but an evil one.
Angemon says
Walter Sieruk posted:
“ One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. ”
They simply parrot islamic orthodoxy and the alleged words of allah.
john spielman says
and remember alllah of islam IS Satan of the Bible and muhammed was just your ordinary evil demon possessed mass murderer thief liar and pedophile false prophet
Bob says
Surely somewhere, the koran has either mahomet or allah saying “I have given each one of you a demon.” Explains a great deal!
abad says
Bingo.
And that is why Muslims carry such a negative energy field in and around their bodies. Sure, it is much easier to look at one of them – even just a picture – to see their Dead Eyes – standing next to a Muslim though it is far easier to feel the negative energy field they carry.
Pretty scary feeling.
That is why it is so important that Muslims repent of Islam and be brought to Christ the Lord – only Jesus can renew these tragic beings – Muslims – grant them peace, teach them to let go and let God, a happiness only granted from Christ Himself, then the Kingdom of God will be within them (Luke 17:20-21)
Paul says
Good luck with that.
billybob says
I think it was a real shame the Egypt was invaded by the Muslim hordes so very long ago. Who knows they may have created a great civilization these past thousand years if it were not for that? After all, they were probably the greatest civilization on earth 4000 years ago. They could have done it again. And with the Christian influence, it could have been a very nice civilization.
In fact, somewhere in a parallel Universe just a wormhole away, there is probably an Egyptian civilization going about their business as we speak, where they weren’t invaded by the Muslims. Perhaps they evolved into some kind of Utopia, for all we know.
So sad that here in our universe, this once great civilization is nothing but a gigantic slum, from one end of the Nile to the other.
Nan Barr says
The Coptic Library at Alexandria was so wonderful and filled with knowledge there was NO way the muslims would allow all that knowledge to exist.
So they burned it.
abad says
That is because the Muslims knew they had nothing on a par with that magnificent library to offer the world.
Oh and they STILL don’t. Muslims will never progress they will always be stuck in the 7th century.
abad says
Hey I think it’s a shame the Persian Empire was invaded by Muslim hordes back in 633 C.E.
While it is commonly known Egypt played a vital role in Judaic history per the Old Testament – so did Persia but in a much different manner. The Jews were always safe when they came in contact with the Persian, when Cyrus the Great took control of Babylon in 539 B.C. He set a standard for his time. He allowed the Jews to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem.
That is why I find it so ironic modern Iran leaders are so anti-Israel, anti-Jewish. They seem to have forgotten their history, a history to be very proud of.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The bishops life expectancy just took a dive. He probably doesn’t give a damn anymore, and who can blame him. Especially once he understands that the chances of the Swiss envoy actually listening to him is exactly zero. Some are not good at dialogue, others are not even good at understanding it.
Paul says
So true. And the Jews are the only nation state that can claim historical ties to Israel. And then there are the Assyrian Christians, Nubians, Yazidis, Bahais, etc. And even the Kurds, while Muslim, can lay claim to having been dispossessed by Arabs, Iranians, and Turks. Time for the West to wake up and stop enabling Muslim Arab supremacism, colonialism, and imperialism.
Michael Johnson says
Yea that’s true Christians are the native inhabitants of Egypt and other middle east countries as well but the Muslims came and stole their land and put their culture there
Carolyne says
It is not a fact that Egypt was originally inhabited by Christians, Egypt existed long before Christ It had many gods, ISIS, Amun, Aten, etc etc etc. It was polytheistic until Akenaten designated the sun god, Aten, as the only god. But upon his death, Egypt reverted to a polytheistic belief. Egypt was certainly Christian before the hordes from the East invaded, though and it became Muslim.
RL Robison says
Western governments are too gutless to stand up and admit that Islam invaded and converted by force the Christian majorities in Egypt and through-out the Middle East. But of course, speaking that truth would not be politically correct and would be labeled Islamophobic. Gutless wonders, and Obama is at the head of the pack.
Carolyne says
Spain is a good example of Muslim invaders. They took over most of Spain, crossing from North Africa and there are still mosques which were once churches. Ferdanand and Isabella kicked them back to North Africa and reestablished Christianity. But ever present day Muslim country with the exception of part of Saudi Arabia is Muslim because of Islamic invasion.
The croissant roll was an invention by an Austrian baker to celebrate the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the gates of Vienna. It was shaped like a crescent moon, the symbol of the barbarians. The crescent moon and single star which appear on flags of many Muslim countries is to celebrate a victorious battle by Mohammed on a clear night when he could see the crescent moon and a star. He took that as some kind of signal from Allah (The Moon Goddess.)