Egypt’s Christians are expressing increasingly pointed fears that the country is sliding into a Muslim theocracy which will fail to protect their riots and even expose them to violence. A top Egyptian cleric recently declared that opposition to the country’s new constitution – the draft of which was hastily rushed through Egypt’s Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly and which has been criticized for heavy emphasis on Islamic law – should be a punishable crime. Days later Egyptian security services uncovered a planned bomb attack on a church.