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Who Will Speak for the Copts?

Recently Egyptian freedom-fighters revisited Tahrir (Liberty) Square in Cairo to reinforce demands for democratic elections.

A day-long clash between Islamic insurgents operating from terror bases in Afghanistan and Pakistani military ended Thursday with 58 dead, the Associated Press reports.

Now that the party is winding down in Egypt, no one really wants the army to stick around for the after-party but nobody quite knows how to ask them to play ball or leave. After all, the consequences are rather scary.

On Wednesday, Israel will mark Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), the 44th anniversary of Israel’s liberation of the Holy City during the 1967 Six Day War.

The burning of books is an uncivil and distasteful act no matter where and under what circumstances.

Gamal Helal, a former Middle East affairs adviser to US presidents, says that Obama’s insistence that Israel must shrink to the size it was before 1967, even if inside different borders, is a victory for the Arab world.

Senior United States Senate Democrats are urging the Obama administration not to disburse any more security aid to Pakistan until it is sure Islamabad is not letting Al Qaeda and other militant groups operate there.

Dedicated to educating the American people about Coptic-Muslim relations in Egypt and the rest of the world and the potential impact of this relationship on America and the West.

The dictionary defines religion as, “The expression of man’s belief and reverence for a superhuman power recognized as the creator and governor of the universe.” By this definition Islam qualifies as religion, so do numberless others. A definition this broad is ambiguous and must be further defined with the specific tenets and practices of the belief.