Magdi Khalil ( Translated by The Coptic Assembly)

"No one can ride your back unless you curve," Martin Luther King

The Determinants, Foundations, and Principles that control or must control the Coptic work both inside and outside of Egypt.

1-The Coptic movement is a legal movement - a civil rights movement – and according to this meaning, the Coptic movement is furthered through local and international laws, agreements, and norms. It is known that human rights movements monitor each violation of human rights and serve as defense movements, which seek to promote and defend the rights of individuals, groups, and people.

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The Muslim Brotherhood's ideology is similar to that of Hamas 

By Nicholas Kralev, The Washington Times

CAIRO — The United States has resumed contacts with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood despite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's 2005 commitment not to "engage" with the banned group — a move that could strain relations with President Hosni Mubarak's government.

U.S. Embassy officials said they are acting in conformity with a worldwide policy of dealing with political parties that are represented in their national parliaments. Muslim Brotherhood members can only run for Egypt's parliament as independents, and U.S. officials say they have met them only in that capacity.

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Egypt: Allow Citizens to List Actual Religion on ID Cards

Interior Ministry officials apparently believe they have the right to choose someone’s religion when they don’t like the religion that person chooses. The government should end its arbitrary refusal to recognize some people’s religious beliefs. This policy strikes at the core of a person’s identity, and its practical consequences seriously harm their daily lives. Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division

Egypt should allow all citizens to use their actual religious identity when required to list religion on government documents, Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) said today. The government’s discriminatory practice of restricting identity to three religions, directed at Baha’is and preventing converts from Islam from listing their true belief, violate many rights and cause immense hardship.

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