The indigenous Egyptians are being persecuted and genocided into extinction.

Indigenous Egyptians?

The Kopts. They are last vestiges of the indigenous population. Obviously not the ancient Egyptian indigenous population which died out with the Persian and Greek rulers of course.

Actually, they are directly descended from the ancient Egyptians. The Coptic language is also directly descended from ancient Egyptian (hieroglyphs) - it's now a dead language (like Latin) but it only died out 300-400 years ago.

The language certainly is. The direct descendents of the Egyptians left in the world would be the Fellahin, but I am not aware of any Fellahin as Kopts. Moreover, the last indigenous Egyptian dynastes were the Saite rulers who gave way to the Persians and Greeks. The indigenous people of the land, it is a assumed, just disintergrated into sparse communities on the fringes of Egyptian towns, the Fellahin being the last to survive.

The last of the Greek rulers (Cleopatra VII) spoke fluent Egyptian. She took the trouble to learn the language in order to communicate with the native Egyptian nobility, priesthood and masses. Think of the Persian and Greek dynasties like the Norman invasion of England... a few thousand soldiers imposed their culture and, for a while, their language on the nation's upper echelons, but they had a limited impact on the gene pool, and never persuaded the masses to abandon their native language.

There is no ethnic distinction between Copts and Fellahin, just cultural differences. Both are descendants of the ancient Egyptians, AFAIK.

http://www.copts-united.com/English/Details.php?I=857&A=9806

I am told that the Obama administration are helping the persecutors. What do you think?

Er, hardly any more indigenous than the average Egyptian, I should say. Also, the Copts of Egypt are known to be troublemakers, so I shouldn't take any claims they make of persecution seriously.

She also spoke Hebrew. Now Cleopatra inherited the throne from the Ptolemaic line, still Greek but not Egyptian. The Ptolemies inherited ther throne from the Persian kings, still not Egyptian. The Persians took over from the Saites and Ku****es, who were for the most part from Kush and Libya.

The Kopts are not Egyptians (although I might be wrong), but are a cultural vestige of Egypt during the Roman period. The Fellahin are nothing like the Kopts, as far as I am aware, apart from appearance perhaps.

The copts are way after ancient Egyptians lol, Ancient Egyptians were not of any European or Asian/Arabian descent at the time

Er, hardly any more indigenous than the average Egyptian, I should say. Also, the Copts of Egypt are known to be troublemakers, so I shouldn't take any claims they make of persecution seriously.

http://www.copts-united.com/English/Details.php?I=857&A=9806

I am told that the Obama administration are helping the persecutors. What do you think?

I think considering most Muslim Egyptians are descended from native Egyptian lineages that converted, it's not a case of indigenous persecution but good old fashioned religious.

http://www.copts-united.com/English/Details.php?I=857&A=9806

I am told that the Obama administration are helping the persecutors. What do you think?

Erm, sorry, Copts are no more indigenous than other Egyptian. They're all Arab. I'm speaking as a half Egyptian myself.

And they're not as persecuted as some sections of the media make it out to be. My sister came back from a visit to Egypt a few months ago. Obviously, any persecution is bad. But from what I could tell, a lot of the grass roots campaigning/protesting in Egypt has brought Christians and Muslims a little closer there.

No. The Arabs are not the direct descendants of the Egyptians. The Arabs are more Levant, Syria, Petra. More Bedouin.

A fair point if valid but while the egyptians may claim to be 'Arab' I'm confident a quick search for genetic lineages and so forth will prove that the bulk of current Egyptians are from native lines back from pre-Arab/Muslim periods.