On NBC's Today Show, Trump made similar remarks, saying he thinks this should be a states' issue and suggesting that the whole issue has been blown out of proportion. Transgenders make up a tiny, tiny portion of the population, he said, but he also stated that everybody has to be protected..
Most people who live in Cairo are Muslim. There are also many Christians in Egypt, making up perhaps around 10 per cent of the population. The majority of Christians belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church, which was the dominant religion in Egypt before Islam. There are only a handful of Jews left in Cairo - about two hundred. Most of Egypt's Jewish population has emigrated in the last fifty years to Israel or the United States. 2) Pope Shenouda II, head of the Coptic Church, leading a mass service.
A common tenet of the religious beliefs of ancient Egyptian people throughout their civilization is a strong emphasis on the afterlife, and preparing the earthly remains of the deceased for that new existence.