From the 'article':
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An Egyptian Queen
Even if you're taking a costume from "history," it can still bring up ugly reminders of a violent past. According to the Ancient History Encyclopedia, the ankh, which is what the woman in this picture is holding,
was appropriated by the Christians in the 4th century CE as a symbol for their god. This might just seems like a beautiful costume, but it's a symbol of a culture that was violently appropriated centuries ago.
هههههههههههه! والعرب في مصر او الغزوات؟
Typical idiot non-thinking, enriched by non-historical 'history' puffed up by idiots. The ankh was no more 'violently appropriated' by Christians than anything else, as Christianity spread to the native Egyptians (you know, the people for whom the ankh was
already their own cultural symbol) during the
persecution of Christians, not the other way around. By the time of the end of the last major government-organized persecution of Christians in Roman Egypt (under
Maximinius Daia, though these are usually folded into the Diocletian persecution), the native Church was already on its 19th bishop,
HH St. Alexander (r. 312-328). The scriptures began to appear in Coptic almost two centuries before that (c. 150 AD according to
Aziz S. Atiya, the father of modern Coptology), indicating the indigenous acceptance of Christianity at a very early date.
I'm really sick of idiots who don't know what they're talking about treating Egyptian Christians or Egyptian Christianity as if it doesn't belong to Egypt just as much as the pre-Christian Egyptian religions (or, God forbid, Islam), and just saying whatever they think sounds right to them because they found it in some encyclopedia written by other idiots who also don't know what they're talking about and are given to conspiracy theories.
If you talk to some actual Coptic people (as I certainly have), they'll likely tell you that it was their ancestors' own identification of the ankh with the cross that helped them to accept Christianity in the first place. Only an absolute moron would call that "Violent appropriation", unless it's somehow reasonable to suggest that the Egyptians are
appropriating their own culture!
And it was not just appropriated, but "Violently appropriated", they say? Again, let's see what some actual Egyptian people have to say about who violently appropriated what in Egypt. From the writer Fatima Naoot (who was jailed subsequent to this interview for allegedly "insulting Islam" via FB posts that criticized Islamic fasting practices):
Well how do you like that! Some
foreigners (the Arabs) came in and
appropriated all of Egypt, and the Egyptian identity! And yet it's the preexisting
CHRISTIANS who need to feel shame for 'appropriating'
what was and is already theirs? Yeah...you can go take a flying leap, and take your absolutely nonsense view of Egypt and Egyptians with you, Mika Doyle and Mia Mercado, who by those names sound about as Egyptian as I am.
I am so tired of this kind of 'woke' garbage, where being outraged is a substitute for being informed.