The Coptic gambit has worked; American policy has capitulated to Mubarak, as two June speeches by American politicians at universities in Cairo demonstrate: In 2005, speaking at the American University in Cairo, then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on the people of Egypt to demand democracy of their government: “The day is coming when the promise of a fully free and democratic world, once thought impossible, will also seem inevitable.” Referring to decades of martial law in Egypt, she demanded the day “when the rule of law replaces emergency decrees.” She called on the Mubarak regime to “fulfill the promise it has made to its people-and to the entire world-by giving its citizens the freedom to choose.” दूसरा, काप्ट को मारने के मामले में शायद ही किसी मुसलमान को कानूनी रूप से दन्डित किया जाता है। उदाहरण के लिये 1999 में दूसरे कोशेह नरसन्हार में 20 काप्ट को मारने के मामले में किसी भी मुसलमान पर आरोप नहीं लगा , जबकि एक मुस्लिम को साथी मुस्लिम को दुर्घटनावश मारने के आरोप में 13 वर्ष का कारावास हुआ।
