Egypt and religions

Based on CIA - The World Factbook -- Egypt, the Religion groups in Egypt consists of Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%, Coptic 9%, other Christian 1% of Population of 81,713,517 (July 2008 est.).

It turned out that the Muslims are not all 100% Muslims, there are Bahá'í population beside Sunis and they are minorities between 500 to 2000 people.

The Bahá'ís have finally got their freedom in Egypt to state their religion as ‘Bahá'í’ in the identification documents after years been put under ‘Muslim’. the Egyptian community still don’t accept any religions except Islam, Christianity and Judaism as only universal religions.

Anther interesting thing that if a man changes his religion from Christianity to Islam, his offspring’s have to change their religion too as they follow their father but the church taking it as offence against the child’s freedom. As their was a case of a woman was put in jail because her father is Muslim based on his national identification documents after he converted from Christianity to Islam then he converted back to Christianity without changing his identification documents and she married Christian.