The Christians were persecuted by the Muslim Brotherhood and not by Mubarak.
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[[File:Obama Netanyahu and Mubarak.jpg|thumb|Sept. 1, 2010, during the Middle East negotiations; The Oval Office.]]
[[File:Obama Netanyahu and Mubarak.jpg|thumb|Sept. 1, 2010, during the Middle East negotiations; The Oval Office.]]
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'''Hosni Mubarak''' was the longtime president and dictator of [[Egypt]] from 1981-2011, and the fourth man to hold the office. He assumed office in October 1981 after the assassination of [[Anwar Sadat]] and maintained the peace with [[Israel]] established under his predecessor at the [[Camp David Accords]]. The [[Muslim]] [[terrorist]] organization [[CAIR]] actively lobbied against Mubarak.<ref>http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=259409</ref>
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'''Hosni Mubarak''' was the longtime president of [[Egypt]] from 1981-2011, and the fourth man to hold the office. He assumed office in October 1981 after the assassination of [[Anwar Sadat]] and maintained the peace with [[Israel]] established under his predecessor at the [[Camp David Accords]]. The [[Muslim]] [[terrorist]] organization [[CAIR]] actively lobbied against Mubarak.<ref>http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=259409</ref>
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Mubarak has been criticized for his persecution of the [[Coptic Church]], and for his government's twenty nine year state of emergency, which allows him to imprison and hold his political opponents indefinitely without trial and cancel elections. During the presidency of [[George W. Bush]], Secretary of State [[Condoleeza Rice]] called for the state of emergency to be lifted and the Mubarak regime to commit itself to democracy.