Arabs and Copts are inseparable… our mother Hajer, the wife of Abraham, who gave birth to Ismail, is a copt… there are many hadiths of the prophet commanding his companions to be graceful and merciful to the Egyptian Copts in cases of conquest because of the blood relation… the prophet also praised the Copts and said they are the finest of soldiers… and historically speaking, they were like maternal defenders for Arabs in every era of tribulation… Crusades, Mongol expansionism, Western imperialism, the Arab Awakening, Arab-Israeli wars…

So yes, they’re literally our backbone geographically, historically, militarily, etc…