Sadat’s war on Copts: Alive and well long after his death by fellow OIC perpetrators of Islamization goal

Sadat hated Coptic Christians. This he proved when he became Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in 1954 and was heavily influenced by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Once Sadat became Nasser’s vice president ten years later, he implemented the OIC goal to transform Egypt into an Islamic religious state. He wanted to make good on the promises he made during his 1954 speech in Mecca that within ten years he would force Egyptian Copts to convert to Islam. In Sadat’s speech to the Muslim nations, he aroused his listeners, declaring that “those who remain Copts will be the shoe-cleaners and doormen for Muslims.”

Sadat followed through with his plan to please the Islamic world. Egypt became an Islamic religious state when Sadat amended Article Two of the Egyptian constitution (“Islam is the religion of the state, Arabic is its official language, and the principles of Islamic law the main source of legislation.”) This article allows the persecution of Christians and contempt for the Christian religion, which today Al Sisi’s regime and state institutions use as a pretext to oppress Copts.

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