The freedom of religion and worship are fundamental human rights which must be protected. Religious tolerance in our troubled times must be promoted and defended by all.

Amen!

The Copts are citizens of Egypt, tax-paying, loyal and patriotic citizens who must be afforded the complete and fully protected rights of their Muslim neighbors.

Strange thing to say. Muslims don’t believe in freedom of religion, worship, or equality. In fact, they expressly deny it in that it is part of their core beliefs that all other forms of religion and culture are inferior and to be repressed with dhimmitude and when possible, by the point of the sword .

So, what exactly are we praying for here? A miraculous mass conversion of the heart of the Islamic religion itself? An politically independent Coptic nation?