Copts of Egypt: more than political pawns for ISIS and el-Sisi
(World News Egypt)

Recent attacks on Copts cannot be understood exclusively as militant resistance to authoritarianism in Egypt. A Coptic mass following recent church bombings. PA Images. All rights reserved. When ISIS claimed responsibility for the recent bombings of two Coptic churches in Egypt, and named the suicide bombers involved, it also issued yet another warning to the `crusaders.` It said: `the bill between us and them is very great and they will pay for it with rivers of their children´s blood, God willing.` What is this `bill` between ISIS and the Copts? That´s an issue of speculation and debate both in Egypt and beyond. One explanation links the increasing violence of Islamist groups with the...