Egypt: No citizenship in Israeli unions

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37529923/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

CAIRO - An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld a ruling that orders the country's Interior Ministry to strip the citizenship from Egyptians married to Israeli women.

And here I thought a UK/US marriage faced difficulties from the government; this makes me glad my wife and I are both from relatively liberal democracies. 

More fully, it's not a blanket thing; the Interior Ministry will present each marriage case to the Cabinet on an individual basis. The Cabinet will then rule on whether to strip the Egyptian of his citizenship. The Interior Ministry had appealed (and lost) against having to implement the 1976 article of the citizenship law which revokes citizenship of Egyptians who married Israelis who have served in the army or embrace Zionism as an ideology.

And here I thought a UK/US marriage faced difficulties from the government; this makes me glad my wife and I are both from relatively liberal democracies. 

Though I have zero idea of how Egyptian citizenship works so I can't compare, I think if a 'foreign jurisdiction' tried to force you to give up your US citizenship, the US wouldn't count that as renouncing your citizenship. I've heard of some young adults with dual US/Japan citizenship managing to keep their citizenship through that loophole even though Japan does not currently allow dual citizenship but the US won't let them be forced to lose their US citizenship.

So if people were in such a situation, be it UK or anywhere else, the US would make it very difficult to comply