The vast majority of Egypt’s Coptic Christian community cast their votes in favour of Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, and so did many more Muslims. This should not be surprising. Not just Copts, but the country itself, is at the crossroads. The Copts and many of their Muslim compatriots have kowtowed for decades to some of Egypt’s hoariest political shibboleths.

Most Copts are neither fierce Christian fundamentalists nor pacifist preachers of good works, submissive churchgoers. Any such tendencies would presumably be exacerbated on an occasion honouring a statesman who is very definitely there, a man of the people who knows what his goals are, or so a considerable number of the Coptic Christians believe.

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