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You will prepare and submit a term paper on Coexistence of Religion in Egypt. Your paper should be a minimum of 2000 words in length. Religious tenets share in common certain ideas and perspectives that are forged by philosophy, doctrine, and conception of truth. To succeed at pacific cohabitation is not an easy feat especially between majorities with fundamental and extremist tendencies and minorities, wounded over a long time in the past. Both revolving around a belief system that upholds monotheism and with a long dramatic history, Christianity and Islam have been embroiled in controversy and battle. Religion conditions the minds construct the worldview, consolidate opinions, prejudices Self to the Other, but can also merge the most polar opposite parties. A fervent topic, religion influences every sphere of life, and in diplomatic relations, has to be approached with the respect and delicacy that are due.

Ancient Egyptian civilization (3100-1075 BCE) affirmed that “earth’s rightness lies injustice,” (Ma’at)&nbsp.which is the “rudder of heaven and the beam of earth.” Social order through hierarchy evinces itself in the macrocosmic world in the pantheon of Egyptian gods and in micro in the social structure in the&nbsp.Egyptian&nbsp.government. America founded its nation on the doctrines of God in the democratic framework. Egypt has also its national and religious foundation based on God. However, in Egypt, government regimes have gotten more repressive. Religion intolerance always leads to the flight of one group in search of freedom, autonomy, and justice. However, the sustaining of biased religious groups only lessens the likelihood of coexistence.

The crux of the Egyptian religious conflict springs from deep-rooted prejudice, where Islamic extremists, supremacists, and fundamentalists continue to urge the immediate and full use of shari’a as constitutional law.&nbsp.

These fundamentalists uphold the more conservative religiopolitical view where traditional institutions and time-honored values are legitimized and codified in the Nation’s constitution. Oftentimes, where state-religion dominates there is tyranny, persecution of the dissenting minority, and a pervasive lack of freedom. Fundamentalists fully support and attempt to impose a religious code of ethics founded in religious scripture.