hile all are encouraging national reconciliation and renunciation of divisions among Egyptians and political powers, some Coptic activists announced the founding of the so-called Christian Brotherhood, in the fashion of the Muslim Brotherhood, stirring arguments in popular, media and political circles.

Christian clerics and intellectuals expressed outright rejection against the idea on the grounds that this group is established on “sectarian grounds” and expressed belief that it promotes the concept of religious state in a time everyone are working in the direction of a civil modern state based on citizenship and equality in rights and duties. [Nādir Abū al-Futūh, al-Ahrām, July 13, p. 42] Read original text in Arabic