Christians in Egypt have endured discrimination, harassment, and sometimes open persecution for fourteen centuries. When Arab armies invaded Egypt, it was 99% Christian, but over the centuries, the institutionalized second-class status of dhimmitude that the Muslim rulers imposed upon the Christian population reduced the Christians to a small minority in their native land. This kind of thing happened in many other places as well, and is happening again now in Europe.
Get the full details, often from Islamic sources, in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
“Egypt: Bus full of Coptic Christians attacked near site of 2017 Minya massacre,” by Joanne Stocker, Defense Post, November 2, 2018 (thanks to Mark):
A bus carrying Coptic Christian passengers to a monastery was attacked in Egypt’s Minya governorate, according to reports on Friday, November 2.
The bus was carrying passengers from Sohag to the St. Samuel the Confessor monastery when unidentified gunmen opened fire, killing several people, a report from Al-Araby Al-Jadeed said.
Daily News Egypt reported that emergency crews were responding after gunshots were heard near the monastery.
There was no immediate confirmation of casualties, but Reuters reported the archbishop as saying that seven people were dead and 14 injured.
The attack occurred near the site of a similar assault in April 2017 that left more than two dozen people dead.
No group claimed responsibility for that attack but Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate earlier called for attacks on Christians and the group was blamed. Coptic Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s predominantly Sunni Muslim population….