Mary writes about the murdered Coptic family
in her excellent blog, Exit Zero,

In their report about the possible ‘religious’ connection in the gruesome slaying of an Egyptian-American family the New York Times says that the Copts in Egypt have a "fraught history with the country's Muslim majority"

That’s putting it mildly.

and a surprising connection to violence advocate Lynn Stewart.

MIchael lives near a Coptic church.

Robert Spencer has more on this story here, here, and here.