Egypt Feature: The Life of Death of Activist Mina Danial (Fathi)

Mina Danial at a sit-in in Cairo's Tahrir Square (Photo: Eduardo Castaldo)

---

Tarek El-Tayeb, 25, had always hated Christians. He was known among his friends as Tarek “El-Salafi” as he followed the ultraorthodox school of Islam. 

"I joined the Salafist school of Islam when I was 13 years old," remembers El-Tayeb. "According to my ideology, Christians were heretics and being a friend with any of them was a grave sin."

All of this changed when he met Coptic Christian activist Mina Danial.

Click to read more ...