I'm sorry, didn't you know you're Muslim?

Oct 11, 2008 12:21

Egypt: Surprise, you're Muslims! And we'll throw you in jail for insisting otherwise

"ISTANBUL, October 10 (Compass Direct News) - An Egyptian Coptic Christian woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for failing to uphold her Islamic identity - an identity she didn’t know she had for over four decades.

Sisters Shadia and Bahia Nagy El-Sisi, both in their late 40s and residents of the small east Delta town Mit-Ghamr, were arrested and tried for claiming their official religious identity as Christian. Unknown to them, their religious identity officially changed 46 years ago due to their father’s brief conversion to Islam. Both are illiterate."

news, egypt, sharia, coptic

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