:Of course all this is irrelevent, yet must be addressed in face of the tone of blame directed towards Copts on this page. You don't have to be part of the conversation if you don't like. As for the natives being peaceful, have you not heard about the resistance the Egyptians put against the Arabs, in spite of the embargo set by the Byzantines about providing the natives with weapons? While the coward Byzantines ran away, Egyptians like Yoannis of Samanoud and later Mina Ben Bokira and the Beshmurites gave the Arabs a hell of a time and defended their land, until the latters resorted to treachery and then performed an organized an ethnic cleansing against the Egyptians, many in the Delta. The problem I see with you is that you just repeat what people say all the time with no scrutiny or consideration of the other side of the story.