Le discours anti-coptes a été popularisé par le prix Nobel de la paix Anwar Sadat :
The start of clashes between the two groups can be traced back three decades to an increase of Islamic rhetoric by then-president Anwar Sadat, who began to refer to himself as a “Muslim president for an Islamic country,” fomenting religious sectarianism.
▻http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0108/Egypt-Why-Christian-Muslim-clashes-are-different-this-time