Editor’s note: In a recent video, Safwat Hegazy, a popular Egyptian preacher affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood—who earlier announced his dream that Egypt be merged in a “United Arab States” with Jerusalem as the capital—again makes clear that the Egypt he seeks to create will have “no place” for “secularists”—an umbrella term that includes Copts.
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You secularists have no place in this society. Allah is triumphant. Those who are saddened let them be sad; those who are discontented, let them be discontent: Allah is triumphant and whoever is not content to live on Allah’s land, under Allah’s sky and according to Allah’s religion [Islam], let him find another land away from this land, and another sky away from this sky. Only those who obey Allah and his Sharia will remain in Egypt.
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Translated by CS
