A British newspaper said the Christians of Egypt are scared after the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafī al-Nūr Party obtained the majority of seats in the new parliament and they are still wondering about the nature of their community’s coexistence under the rule of Islamists some of whom are trying to impose the strict sharī’ah (Muslim law) on.

[Reviewer’s Note: Throughout the article, the author did not mention the name of the British newspaper she quoted on this article]

The British newspaper quoted analysts as saying that the Salafists’ sudden rise in the first and second round of the legislative elections has given Christians more incentives to seek further cultural and political withdrawal. [Basant Zayn al-Dīn, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Dec. 24, p. 10] Read the original text in Arabic