Is right here:
Egyptian activists have protested in front of parliament and called for legislation giving Christians equal rights as Muslims to build houses of worship.
The demonstrators, both Muslim and Christian, were also protesting Wednesday against sectarian strains in the country, particularly in light of a Christmas Eve slaying of six Coptic Christians and a Muslim guard outside a church in southern Egypt.
The government maintains that sectarian harmony prevails in Egypt and says the January 6 attack had no religious dimension.
The ten percent of Egyptians who are Coptic complain of being denied equal citizenship rights.
A very big thank you to those Egyptian Moslems who showed up in favor of Christian liberty – that took rare courage.
But the fundamental conflict is this: that Christians, as such, are considered a pollution by many powers in the Moslem world. Jews are,too – as are any non-Moslems. There can be no real, lasting peace between Islam and Christians (and thus Islam and the West) until all Moslems respect the right of Christians to worship freely and gain converts in the Moslem world. And this includes in places like Mecca and Medina. Until there is this change in Islam, any peace will be the merest papering over of the cracks.
