Fast forwarding to today, the state of the country is retarded by many challenges, greatly aggravated by religious fanaticism. While Coptic fanaticism may be subliminal, Islamic fanaticism, unfortunately, is sponsored from within and from without. Space is too little to go into the litany of the aggression of misguided fanatics. The cost of unchecked actions and the consequences of fanaticism are causing the country to march backwards into the Dark Ages and worse.