Just Spitballing Here...

I wonder if the Coptic Christians in Egypt would be having an easier time of it these days, wot with all the comparisons to Kristallnacht, if Egypt had something akin to the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution.  I'm thinking these folks (who've been living there for thousands of years, so their neighbors ought to be used to them) are not necessarily in agreement with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the supremacy of Egyptian constitution.

ASIDE:  While I like Jacoby for his usually perspicacious commentary, the underlying assumption in the linked column is that history naturally progresses towards a more benevolent state of man, that the chronological passage of time and the accruing of more experience correlates to better behavior or some sort of increased nobility in the hearts of men.  This is not just a flawed analytical assumption, it is the single most erroneous interpretation one can take from the study of history.