Editor AWR: This is just an excellent article! The ‘Persecution Industry’ Paul Sedra describes is causing so much harm to Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt. It is deliberately distorting social realities in Egypt, taking problems that do exist out of context and with this they create fear among Coptic Christians in Egypt which in turn results in efforts to leave the country, weakening the remaining Christian community. For this reason it can be described as a deliberate self-fulfilling prophecy.