{"id":355,"date":"2011-02-02T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/egypt-revolution-religious-freedom-jews-coptic-christians-muslim-brotherhood.html"},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:45:00","slug":"egypt-revolution-religious-freedom-jews-coptic-christians-muslim-brotherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/egypt-revolution-religious-freedom-jews-coptic-christians-muslim-brotherhood.html","title":{"rendered":"Egypt News: Will Religious Freedom Win, Lose or Draw?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated with more links at&nbsp;2:30 p.m. EST.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It seems like everyone has an opinion about the turmoil in Egypt, including what the implications may be for the region&#8217;s Islamic groups and religious freedom.&nbsp;This concerned confusion extends to the fate of the Christian minority&nbsp;(particularly the Coptic Orthodox Church,&nbsp;which already<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/christians-in-egypt-muslim-world-fear-for-their-lives.html\">&nbsp;suffered a violent attack on New Year&#8217;s Day<\/a>) and Jews (relations with Israel).<\/p>\n<p>Some recent headlines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dalia-mogahed\/us-must-understand-the-co_b_816915.html\">U.S. Must Understand the Constructive Role of Faith in Egypt&#8217;s Democratic Aspirations <\/a>(Dalia Mogahed for The Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/02\/my-take-egypt-is-not-iran\/\">My Take: Egypt 2011 is not Iran 1979<\/a> (Stephen Prothero for CNN&#8217;s Belief Blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2011\/02\/02\/copts-say-egypt-regime-change-trumps-islamist-fears\/\">Copts say Egypt regime change trumps Islamist fears <\/a>(Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/02\/01\/us-egypt-brotherhood-idUSTRE7102SZ20110201\">Egypt&#8217;s Islamists well placed for any post-Mubarak phase <\/a>(Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/01\/praying-with-the-coptic-people\/\">Praying with the Coptic people <\/a>(GetReligion)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncccusa.org\/news\/110131egypt.html\">NCC member communions join with Coptic Orthodox Church to observe a three-day period of prayer for events in Egypt<\/a>&nbsp;(National Council of Churches)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/politics\/4156\/democratic_egypt_tests_a_divided_israel\">Democratic Egypt tests a divided Israel <\/a>(Religion Dispatches)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any other links you find interesting? Share them, and your thoughts, in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated with more links at&nbsp;2:30 p.m. EST. It seems like everyone has an opinion about the turmoil in Egypt, including what the implications may be for the region&#8217;s Islamic groups and religious freedom.&nbsp;This concerned confusion extends to the fate of the Christian minority&nbsp;(particularly the Coptic Orthodox Church,&nbsp;which already&nbsp;suffered a violent attack on New Year&#8217;s Day)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Egypt News: Will Religious Freedom Win, Lose or Draw? - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/egypt-revolution-religious-freedom-jews-coptic-christians-muslim-brotherhood.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egypt News: Will Religious Freedom Win, Lose or Draw? - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Updated with more links at&nbsp;2:30 p.m. EST. 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