In the news reports on Sunday’s massacre by al-Qaeda of 42 Christians at Baghdad’s Our Lady of Salvation Catholic Church, one item struck many as incongruous — one of the terrorists’ demands was the release of two women purportedly held prisoner in Egyptian Coptic monasteries. While this has been little-noticed in the West, it is an explosive issue in Egypt, where threats against the Copts, about 10 percent of the population, have increased in a year that began with a massacre of Copts in Nag Hamadi on Christmas Eve.
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