U.S. Copts Association

In a May 18 letter to President George W. Bush, U.S. Copts Association president Michael Meunier commended the President for his commitment to democratic development in the Arabic-speaking world but requested that he present the nation’s concern over the discrimination and persecution suffered by Egypt’s indigenous Coptic minority. “As members of an endangered native religious and cultural minority, Egypt’s Coptic Christians request you relay to Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif the U.S.’s concern over the discrimination and persecution suffered by Egypt’s indigenous Copts,” Meunier wrote in the letter.According to the U.S. Copts Association, Egypt’s indigenous, pre-Arab Christian Copts - numbering over 12 million and constituting between 15 to 20 percent of the Egyptian population - continue to suffer human rights abuses and discrimination.
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