He has appointed a diverse cabinet, which includes a Copt and figures from the Mubarak era.

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Let's move on to Phyllis Copt (ph) who lives in Lake Compton, Kansas.

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Reem, disfigured by cosmetic surgery gone wrong, is unable to marry her boyfriend because he is a Copt.

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Ms. PHYLLIS COPT (Listener): And I took a 50-percent lump sum from the Kansas Retirement Fund, and I put it in a self-directed IRA with Ed Jones.

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The very names Egypt and Copt derive from the same root.

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So seeing a Copt as, for example, a second class citizen, whether you're a secular Muslim or not, these sorts of things feed into the culture and the worldview of the general populace of Egypt.

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I'm a woman and I'm a Copt.

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Hugh himself, if he is to marry his Roda, will have to convert to Islam, a process that is daunting for an Egyptian Copt but which, for a foreign Christian, turns out to be as easy as buying a bus ticket.

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