 My parents are original Coptics  Born and raised in Sudan  Education: Mechanical Eng.  BS Georgia Tech  MS MIT  Occupation: Director of Research at a software company called Camstar  Wife: Christine Chen from Taiwan  2 sons in CDS:  Lance Lokas, 9 (soon to be 10), 5 th grade  Calvin Lokas, 7 (soon to be teenager), 2 nd grade

 First Biblical mention of Egypt?  First Biblical mention of Arab?  Are the Palestinians descendants of the Philistines?  Where is Upper Egypt

 Hebrews 13:3  “Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body.”

 Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity  Historically a reference to those of Egyptian descent  After the Islamic invasion it became a reference to Christian Egyptians  Original Egyptian language  Adopted Greek alphabet in 1 st century  Supplanted by Arabic  I am a Copt/Coptic  Rami Farouk Lokas Girgis Abdel Maseeh Michail Twadros Gladios El Zued

 St. Mark….A.D  Church of Alexandria  Christianity spread fast  Mid 2 nd century Coptic Gospel of John found in Upper Egypt  Extremely influential in early church  Presided over the first 3 Ecumenical councils  Nicene Crede  First/Oldest Catechetical school…. Pantaenus  Catechisms  Braille  Monasticism  Theology and scholarship

 From Christian Majority to 10-20%  Coptic language to Arabic language  Coptic language seized after 18 th century  Coptic paid “jiza”

 Born in early 20 th century  Very invested in social programs  Spawned Hamas and other movements  Sudan is their biggest success  Help topple imperial/colonial powers  Banned and persecuted

 Several major figure assassinations  Goal:  “to instill the Qur'an and Sunnah as the "sole reference point for...ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community... and state."”Qur'anSunnah  Crede:  “"Allah is our objective; the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and dying in the way of Allah is the highest of our aspirations."”

 Egyptian Taliban  Completely veiled women  Land purged of Christians and Jews  Destruction of all historical monuments and artifacts that are non-Muslim  War on Israel to recapture Jerusalem

 Last year  Muslim brotherhood took 50% of parliament seats  Salafis took 20%  How did they do this:  Single member districts….in actuality had 30% of vote  Supreme Court dissolves parliament in June  Muslim brotherhood candidate wins presidential election (13 million votes)  President Morsi attempts to broaden his powers  President Morsi elects a non-inclusive constitutional body  President Morsi grants complete Amnesty to all jailed Muslim Brotherhood members….even if they participated in terroristic acts

 Tamarod colletcs 15 mill votes petitioning President Morsi to step down  Turns into Mil protest on July 3 asking for President Morsis resignation  President Morsi  Threatening speech  Asks for US military intervention  Attempts to shut down non-Muslim news stations  Army removes him

 Demonstrations  All were under the 100s of thousands  Included arms and violence  Attacked Coptics  Over 50 churches attacked  Over 25 completely burned to the ground  Virgin Mary Church  Salafis in Sinai executed over 30 policemen  Attempted assassination of Interior Minister  Publicly recorded threats  Videos of arms, snipers, killing of youths

 Crack down on freed terrorists  Brought court cases against the Muslim Brotherhood  Captured some of the leadership that:  Embezzled Egyptian funds  Made violent threats  Participated in any violence  Considering banning the Muslim Brotherhood

 US:  Consider ending aid  Saudi Arabia said they will cover the aid if need be  End joint military practice  Senators Graham and McCain visit Egypt to:  Reinstitute democratically elected government or  Make peace with Muslim Brotherhood with shared government  Release some jailed Muslim Brothers

 Egypt saves the world from terrorism:   Michael Coren on the horror in Egypt:  k k