I was born and raised in Egypt. You can probably tell by my username that I am not religious but my whole family is Christian.
When I was eight years old my dad had a business dispute with a Muslim man and because the man didn't want to lose he accused my father of blasphemy (my father never said such things because he knew better).
That night a mob came to our neighborhood, smashed shops, smashed windows, and came to our home and threatened my dad while me, my siblings, and my mom huddled in the house. Luckily some neighbors intervened and got the crowd to leave without my dad being hurt too bad.
The next morning police came and my dad was sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy. Egypt is an extremely regressive country when it comes to minority rights, women’s rights, gay rights, etc.
(𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐈𝐟 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟-𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞.)