In a seminar organized by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, Copts talked about their human rights grievances. Many prejudices against Copts have recently come to the surface as seen in the events at Al-Kosheh village in Upper Egypt a couple of years ago. The incident in Upper Egypt showed that the harmony [between Muslims and Christians] we love to talk about is merely an illusion. What lies beneath is outright discrimination against Copts, which threatens Egyptian society of being divided along sectarian lines.

- See art. 12: The role of Islam in saving eastern Christianity from annihilation by the Byzantines