Egypt has the largest Christian community in the Arab world. But as we were sadly reminded last week, that does not make the country a model of peaceful integration. On Sunday February 19, ISIS released a video calling for increased violence against Egyptian Christians. In recent weeks, Coptic Christians in the Sinai Peninsula have been shot dead or burnt alive. Hundreds have fled the area.
Although Sinai has an especially bad terrorist problem, further inland is not always safe. On December 11 last year, 29 people were killed by a bomb attack on Cairo’s Coptic Orthodox cathedral complex. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said that anti-Christian terrorists do not belong in Egypt.
