Morgan

FACTS

We recite the facts as presented in Morgan’s testimony. Morgan was born November 6, 1962 in Kafr-El-Dawar, Egypt. He and his family are members of the Coptic Orthodox Church, an ancient branch of Christianity. They come from Egypt, long a home of Coptic Christians, who compose roughly nine percent of the population of a largely Muslim nation. See CIA World Fact Book (Egypt) at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world factbook/ geos/eg.html. Morgan testified to the following incidents in which he had experienced the hostility from those he termed “extremists”—Muslim fundamentalists —who, in these instances, were not restrained by the government:

In 1988, Morgan opened a retail store. On the store’s open- ing day, it remained open during Muslim prayers. Islamic fun- damentalists attacked it, destroyed its merchandise and furniture, and set it on fire. The fundamentalists threatened to kill Morgan if he continued to do business. Morgan reported the attack to the fire department, which refused to investigate or provide a report of the incident for insurance purposes.

In 1995, a group of Muslim extremists attacked a jewelry store belonging to Morgan’s cousin, Refaat,…