Yesterday, Tuesday July 3nd, three “unknown assailants”
in al-Minya, Egypt, attacked two Coptic Christian youths with knives
and robbed them of 1,300 pounds, before fleeing the scene. While this
incident may be dismissed as a mere crime inspired by plunder,
Last summer in Egypt, for instance, a priest was almost "killed at the hands of the Salafis because of his refusal to pay them jizya money…. [T]he church's priest had declared that the Copts would not pay jizya, in any way, shape, or form. This is what caused the Salafis to want to banish him from the region, so they could collect jizya from the Copts." The logic appears to be: If the Christians won’t pay jizya willingly, we will take it from them by force.