The riots and violence provoked across the Muslim world by the anti-Islamic film said to have been made by an Egyptian Copt in America have left millions of Egyptian Christians fearful of a violent backlash against their community.

It comes at a time when their community is without a leader. But in two months' time a small blindfolded boy will literally hold their fate in his hands when he selects the name of the next Pope of the Coptic Church.

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