Regardless of the bishop viewpoint, he should've not announce that for the sake of the 15 million Copt egyptain. The sectarian tension have been escalating in the past few years , specially in rural Egypt towns.
The mob in the streets of cairo can easily be influenced, in 2005 many coptic were attacked ,harassed And were subject to hostility after the news of Theatrical play in a coptic school that criticized Islam stormed the Internet despite Coptic church denying the allegations