Egypt’s Coptic identity is at risk from Daesh and the “prevailing culture”: Heba Saleh took to the pages of the Financial Times to talk about how Egypt’s Copts are “keeping their faith” in the fight against Daesh, even though the militant group has made a target of the religious minority. But terrorism isn’t the only risk to identity, warns Ashraf Ramelah in a piece for Canada Free Press, as “the indigenous Copts are under threat of being swallowed up by the prevailing culture’s aims to absorb every single person under the umbrella of Arab-Muslim.”
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