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The persecution of the five million Egyptian Christians may not be a new story, but it does deserve fresh attention, because their leader, Pope Shenouda, is currently on an 11-week tour of North America. Shortly after Shenouda's arrival, he was the subject of a 19-paragraph feature in the New York Times. Yet the article contain- ed just one vague reference to the persecution of the Copts in Egypt, noting that many Copts have emigrated to the West, and "many say that it is difficult to live as Chris- tians in Egypt's Muslim society." Unfortunately, the Times report neglected to explain what makes it so "difficult." It did not mention, for exam- ple, that Moslem mobs laun- ched anti-Copt riots in December 1972, October 1977, and June 1981. It did not mention how, on Egyptian college campuses, Coptic students are harrassed by their Moselm counterparts, and Moselm professors discriminate against Coptic Christian students in grading. It did not mention how Pope Shenouda himself was, in September 1981, banished to a secluded desert monastery by the Egyptian government. If the New York Times' coverage of Pope Shenouda's visit to North America was shoddy, the coverage by other major U.S. newspapers has Bertram Korn, Jr., is executive director of CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. been worse. The Washington Post and the Philadelphia In- quirer, for example, have ig- nored Shenouda. The Inquirer, in fact, went a step further, by publishing two long "puff" pieces — in a Thanksgiving Day edition — about life in Egypt. One described a recent ar- cheological discovery outside Alexandria. The other reported on the decline of belly-dancing in the Land of the Pharoahs, in part because of the rise of Moslem fundamentalism. The truth is that in Egypt, which is the second largest The newspapers ignore the plight of Middle East Christians. recipient of American foreign aid, the real victims of social discrimination are not belly- dancers, but five million inno- cent Christians. Their cause has been all but ignored by the otherwise human rights- conscious American religious groups, news media, and human rights lobby. In fact, the abandonment of the Middle East's Christians has been abetted by the on- going and disgraceful lack of serious political reporting about the Arab world in the American media. ❑ !NEWS 1 'Get' Is Focus Of Divorce Law Toronto (JTA) — Canada has amended its Divorce Act to prevent the requirements of a religious divorce from being used as a bargaining chip in civil divorce pro- ceedings. The new regulations are aimed at abuses of the get, which Jewish religious law requires must be delivered by the husband and accepted by the wife. Without a get, neither par- ty can remarry. Under the new laws, neither one may get a civil divorce in Canada until the religious barriers to remarriage are removed. "It was felt that the withholding of the religious divorce has been used as a device to obtain concessions from a spouse for custody and access to hhildren or monetary support," Justice Minister Douglas Lewis ex- plained.