Exactly
one month before he was assassinated, on this day in 1981, Anwar Sadat attempted to appease the Islamic
fundamentalists of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood by sanctioning fierce persecutions against the
Christian minority and exiling Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the Coptic
Church. Christian lands were
confiscated. Hundreds of
Christians were martyred. And
churches were desecrated and destroyed.
Officially, the Sadat government attributed all the strife to the
besieged Christians. Nevertheless,
the ploy failed to satisfy the Islamic hard liners and the assassination of
Sadat was ordered and carried out.
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