OUR OBJECTIVES

EQUALITY   *   JUSTICE    

FREEDOM OF RELIGION

Copts (Christians of Egypt) are not asking for special privileged treatment to compensate them for centuries of discrimination and persecution suffered from. They are only asking for equality as stated by the Egyptian National Constitution, though it is not practiced.

1.    Copts demand the immediate cancellation of the antiquated 19th Century Hamayouni decree, as well as the ten restrictive conditions enforced by the government since February 1934.

2.     Copts demand the removal of the second Article in the Constitution stipulating “That Islam Is The National Religion” and “Islamic Sharia is the main source of legislation”. These articles do not render justice or respect to 15 Million Copts. Egypt will prosper under a secular system that separates Religion from the State. Right now Egypt is more of a religious state than civic.

 
3. Copts demand parliamentary representation in every sector according to their numbers in addition, to Muslim representation.

4. Copts demand immediate removal of the Coptic File from the State Security and State Intelligence Authority reporting directly to the President Office. Coptic File should be handled directly by government agencies and not by State Security and State Intelligence.

5. Copts demand an educational curriculum that respects all citizens regardless of their various affiliations. This should include the history of the Coptic era prior to the Arab invasion.
 

6. Copts demand a fair equal Media whereby air time should be assigned equally between Christians and Muslims on government controlled TV and Radio Stations. The present campaign of hatred against Christians has created a cloud of intolerance in every corner in Egypt.
 

7. Copts demand that all citizens enjoy freedom of expression, freedom of worship, including freedom of religious choice. Muslims as well as Christians should be free to convert to their choice of faith without fear of harassment or persecution, imprisonment and torture.
 

8. Copts demand that religious affiliation be removed from national ID cards, and all documents as it does not serve any good purpose other than explicit discrimination. Christians and Muslims should be treated as equal citizens.
 

9. Copts demand justice to be served against murderers, robbers, kidnappers, rapists and terrorists. Egypt is obliged to respect and apply all Human Rights covenant signed since 1981. Egypt refused until now to sign the optional Protocol to the International covenant on civil and political Rights.

10. Copts demand an end to discrimination against them in government job appointments and promotions, especially at the level of top ranks in every ministry.
 

11. Copts demand removal of all restrictions against Coptic students by allowing them to enrol in all educational institutions publicly funded as Police and Military Academies. Al-Azhar University Colleges should become a secular University and in order to admit Coptic Students with the same conditions applied to non-Copts.
 

12. Copts want to see an end to the religious discrimination that prevails at all levels of the Egyptian educational system, especially in hiring of teachers, professors, and the unfair grading practices aimed at Christian students.
 

13. Copts demand an end to kidnapping minor Christian Girls. In order to force them to convert, they were raped and tortured using inhuman techniques by Muslim extremists’. Abductors are always given police-protection.
The Egyptian regime must be serious about apprehending those criminals who murder The Copts, to apply the current Penal Law by punishing them to the fullest extent of the law, and to compensate the victims adequately of these crimes.
No killers of Copts have been sentenced to same punishment as that of a killer of Muslims.