From Joel Miller, at Patheos.com:
Egypt has approved a new, pro-Islamist constitution, and while Christians prepare to celebrate the Nativity of Christ they and other minorities foresee bleak and repressive days ahead.
Voter turnout in the two-stage nationwide referendum was reportedly limited, and Christians were particularly underrepresented, “as low as 7% in some areas,” according to one report.
Intimidation by Islamists kept many from the polls. In one instance, an estimated 50,000 pro-constitution marchers swept through Christian areas of the city of Assiut before the election. Men on horseback with swords led the way — evoking the seventh-century Muslim conquest — as marchers chanted that Egypt would be “Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians.”