Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I will disagree with this. I believe that all groups of Christians face persecution; I wouldn't say one group more than another. I would disagree with that. All Christian groups are facing, I would say, equal persecution; I wouldn't say there are different levels.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My fear is that a big part of it will be from the Muslim Brotherhood. They are the most organized group. I am sure there would be an opposition. I'm sure there would be a secular party that would take part in the election. But I have a feeling that the majority will be from the M

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The attacks are not only on Christians, it's the Christians and the rest of the minorities. What motivates these attacks is the fact that they are different and the fact that they consider them as infidels or a person who is different in belief or religion from them. What mostly

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Absolutely. I am completely in agreement with you. Actually, there are two bloggers who are in prison right now just because they criticized the military council. You have Michael Nabil and you have as well Alaa Abd El Fattah. Both of them criticized the military council and en

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. In many of the areas, the answer is yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's very far from the ideal. I just want to bring one point to your attention with regard to the people who were arrested and the justice system. After the massacre of Maspero, there was a lot of international pressure on the army to start an international investigation. What

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Absolutely.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In my opinion, it would be a disaster. I will explain to you why. I am a very firm believer in the separation between religion and the state. It doesn't matter what religion. When you mix them together, that's when you basically put... If the sharia becomes the law, the source of

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  A pleasure, sir.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  They were from the Maspero attack, from the Egyptian attack.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Both. They are a terrorist group in most of the Middle East. In most of the Arab countries they call them that. However, the fact that Egypt calls them a terrorist group doesn't mean anything to me, because they would call us a terrorist group as well, an organization like One Fr

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No. In the United States and Great Britain.... Most of the free world calls them that. However, this is not my measurement. My measurement is their action with regard--

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Not as far as I'm aware. And actually, in the Maspero massacre a lot of the Christians were arrested, and some of them are still in prison right now. So the victims themselves were arrested. In the Church of Our Lady of Salvation, the five terrorists who entered the church blew

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's correct.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Definitely the majority will not feel safe, and will feel that there is discrimination around them. Now, there are degrees of persecution and discrimination. It could be somebody insulting you in the street just because you have a cross, or it could be getting fired from your wor