text: Ridiculous comment. Coptic Christians are the original population of Egypt---pre-Arab and pre-Muslim----and have no connection with European imperialism post 1500.  And their history of being violently suppressed goes back a long way.  So, for example, back in the 8th and 9th century, when they were still the majority in Egypt, there were many revolts by the Copts against their Arab conquerors that were brutally suppressed. Discriminatory taxation was one of the causes.  (The Coptic Church hierarchy, which was granted a position of privilege by their Arab overlords, sometimes aided the suppression. ) History is written by the conquerors, and it doesn't much matter whether the conqueror is a 19th century European or an 8th century Arab.