Egypt
According to Brian Whitaker, in Egypt, the small Shia population is harassed by the authorities and treated with suspicion, being arrested - ostensibly for security reasons - but then being subjected to torrents of abuse by state security officers for their religious beliefs. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs estaimates the Shia population of Egypt between 800,000 and 2 million.
Read more about this topic: Shi'a Muslims In The Arab World
Famous quotes containing the word egypt:
“Go down, Moses
‘Way down in Egypt land,
Tell ole Pharaoh,
To let my people go.”
—Unknown. Go Down, Moses (l. 1–4)
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)