#copts

Study for ‘The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch’s House in Cairo’

If you scream about "genocide" but stay silent about the Yazidis, Kurds, Copts, Druze or what's happening to Sudan and Nigeria right now, you might be a useful idiot.

If you cry about babies in Gaza but ignore the millions of children dying in Congo, Syria, Yemen and Haiti, you might just be a useful idiot.

If you wear a keffiyeh and you have no idea that it's been stolen from Iraqi culture to represent jihad against the Jewish people, you might just be a useful idiot.

If you chant "from the river to the sea," but can't point out the river or the sea on a map, you might just be a useful idiot.

If you think Zionists are colonizers but ignored the massive 22 Arab nations and the 57 Muslim-majority states destroying countless of cultures in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, you're definitely a useful idiot.

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You would like to say something in Arabic?

I can't speak Arabic.

Repeat after me.

I wish I could.

Ani…

Ani…

Ben…

Ben…

Zona.

Zona.

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"Ani ben zona" is Hebrew for "I am a son of a whore" or "I am a son of a bastard."

Do you know why most people in the West know nothing about the indigenous peoples of the Middle East and their ancient cultures ? It’s because fundamentalist Arab-Islamic colonialism erases them.

Spencer Joseph (X)

so the copts are interesting and yes, they are an indigenous group. they are also technically an ethnoreligion.

many egyptian muslims are descendants of arabs who came to egypt during conquest between 639-642 ce by the forces of amir ibn al-as, under the rashidun caliphate. before that, egypt was christian. the indigenous population had its own form of christianity, coptic orthodoxy, that formed in alexandria. the religion before that was ofc polytheistic.

the difference between say, copts and irish is that copts have a completely separate and DISTINCT form of christianity, not an enculturated form, that is linked to their indigeneity to the region and linked to their ethnicity. part of the coptic belief is ancestry connecting the copts to ancient egyptians. in short: the copts are the remnants of the indigenous egyptians.

(btw before anyone brings up other orthodox christians…please read about the great schism lmao)

are there some muslim egyptians with mixed arab/egyptian or entirely egyptian/coptic ancestry? yes. but copts have mostly not intermarried with the arabs.

copts also have a specific religious language. coptic is the form of egyptian before arab conquest, and there is a specific sub dialect of coptic egyptian used in the coptic church.

people seem to think arabs converted groups of indigenous people and left or something? no. many groups did not convert and faced persecution and taxation. the arabs also brought their own people with them to settle in the area and intermarry with the converted locals. like wtf do people think the huge armies did. in numerous cases, they kidnapped local girls and forced them to convert. this happened to numerous jewish, amazigh, and yazidi girls under 14. arabs were conquerors and colonizers 🤷

anyway here are some sources:

please read about them. i’m getting a lot of ignorant questions that could be answered with a google search and knowledge of okay sources. i encourage all kinds of questions but there is a lot of “from my knowledge…insert absolute fiction fantasy here.” or “i don’t know about this, but…spews fiction fantasy.” tbh it makes me sad. if you’re going to ask questions without a foundation of knowledge, ask the question without the ego. just ask!

The drawing of Mikhael based on my and one person's headcanon that Mikhael and his family are Copts

It's written "Greatness" in Coptic here

:P