Concerning the rights of Copts, the Muftī assured that they are protected and must continue to be so. Copts have the right to participate at all levels and everyone has to respect the pluralism and diversity that has become one of the characteristics of Egypt in the new era, he emphasized.‘Ālām concluded saying that the Egyptians will face these challenges with hope, work and preventing exclusion, and that they will work on enforcing the laws on all (Lū’ai ‘Alī, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Aug. 1). Read original text in Arabic. 

Daniela De Maria, Intern