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16 Apr 2022, 07:54

the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence.

slavery is not a crime. We don't agree [with seculars] that slavery is a crime nor that it's bad... why do atheists attempt to force us to agree with them that slavery is a crime? We [al-Azhar scholars] disagree and we believe that there are often advantages to slavery.

aid packages and logistical and humanitarian support to Sudan

the current developments on the international scene do not affect efforts to help Sudan achieve political, security and economic stability.

the affairs of the Sudanese community in Egypt.

its commitment to benefiting from the transfer of the Egyptian experience in economic reform, training Sudanese cadres and providing them with assistance in facing challenges.

Sudan is a neighboring country for Egypt, and what happens in it affects us.

The ball is in Ethiopia’s court,

It was the Ethiopian failure that impeded the implementation of the stages of filling the dam,

the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence.

slavery is not a crime. We don't agree [with seculars] that slavery is a crime nor that it's bad... why do atheists attempt to force us to agree with them that slavery is a crime? We [al-Azhar scholars] disagree and we believe that there are often advantages to slavery.

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16 Apr 2022, 12:08

Sisi vs. the Islamists: A Battle of Ideas

By Cynthia Farahat

https://www.meforum.org/63070/egypt-ref ... nquisitors

March 2, 2022


Andeel, Mada Masr, September 9, 2016.

Egypt is embroiled in a war of ideas as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi resists Islamists in a struggle for the future of Egypt and the Middle East. Currently, there are historic reforms taking place in the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Bahrain, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. But the path to ideological and religious reform has been most difficult in Egypt.

President Sisi has achieved numerous political, cultural, and economic reforms. In infrastructure and urban development alone, he has implemented 11 thousand projects.

Sisi has transformed his government and become Egypt's most moderate president. https://www.meforum.org/57907/egypt-sisi-reformer

For example, for the first time in Egypt's history, Sisi appointed a Coptic Christian, Judge Boules Fahmy, to head the Supreme Constitutional Court. Most Egyptian Muslims have supported this extraordinary precedent, but a faction of Islamists in the government has aggressively resisted reformation.

Egypt's largest Islamic institution, al-Azhar University in Cairo, has engaged Sisi in a cold war. Fundamentalists in the university have retaliated against him by targeting intellectuals and reformers who share his vision. For decades, Egypt's draconian blasphemy law has been al-Azhar's weapon used to initiate Islamic inquisition tribunals in Egypt's courts. Since 1981, Egypt has persecuted and prosecuted dissidents and intellectuals for blasphemy, and al-Azhar has targeted them with assassination fatwas.


Al-Azhar uses Egypt's draconian blasphemy law to target intellectuals and reformers who share Sisi's vision.

Officially, the country's main legislative bodies are the constitutional court and parliament, but al-Azhar has been the nation's de facto theocratic legislative body due to the second article in the constitution that states,

the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence.

This terror-indoctrinating institution and its affiliated madrassas receive over twenty billion Egyptian pounds (over $1.2 billion) in annual government funding. For decades, the institution has advocated for heinous crimes and psychosexual disorders and systemically militarized Islam.

For example, al-Azhar's celebrity sheikh, Abdallah Rushdy, has been a strong advocate for slavery. Rushdy said, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4024162387632895

slavery is not a crime. We don't agree [with seculars] that slavery is a crime nor that it's bad... why do atheists attempt to force us to agree with them that slavery is a crime? We [al-Azhar scholars] disagree and we believe that there are often advantages to slavery.

Abdallah Rushdy

In 2020, Rushdy also advocated https://www.facebook.com/abdullahrushdy ... 238459461/ for the fundamentalist theology known as sabi, which legitimizes the kidnapping, sex trafficking, and rape of non-Muslim women. Rushdy doesn't define sexual intercourse with a sex slave as "rape" when it's perpetrated by an Islamist against a non-Muslim female. He said that the relationship between the "master and his slave" resembles a "love affair" that sometimes even ended in "marriage" in Islamic history. Rushdy also advocated for the random sexual assault https://new.almogaz.com/news/politics/2 ... 04/2041058 of women who don't observe Islamic dress codes.

Al-Azhar even encourages pedophilia https://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/1200753 by theologically permitting men to marry underage girls. Moreover, in 2017, al-Azhar scholar and professor Sabri Abdul Raouf, issued a religious http://elaph.com/Web/News/2017/9/1167800.html edict titled, mudaga'at al-wada' (farewell coitus) which permits a husband to have sexual intercourse with his wife one final time after her death. That edict was later condemned by al-Azhar after it created controversy across the Middle East.


Al-Azhar scholar and professor Sabri Abdul Raouf issued an edict authorizing necrophilia with one's recently-deceased wife.

Other crimes propagated https://www.meforum.org/6882/is-al-azha ... ity-threat by al-Azhar include legitimizing cannibalism, maiming infidels, and torturing "bad Muslims" to death. Some of the most brutal terrorists in history https://www.meforum.org/6882/is-al-azha ... ity-threat received their jihadist indoctrination at al-Azhar. This author's upcoming book, The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood's Industry of Death,

provides evidence suggesting al-Qaeda was most probably founded at al-Azhar University in 1971, and not the mid-1980s in Afghanistan, as is commonly believed.

President Sisi has been trying to peacefully combat these radical ideas for years. Despite his many historic reforms, Sisi has yet to take firm action against al-Azhar. The university poses a security threat through its hundreds of thousands of students and their Muslim Brotherhood allies ensconced in the vital government organs. While Sisi has delayed a direct confrontation with al-Azhar, at some point he must slash its funding and remove its leadership's prosecutorial immunity.


Clockwise from top left: Mohammed Abdallah Nasr, Ahmed Abdu Maher, Islam Behery, and Ibrahim Issa.

During the past few years, al-Azhar has engaged in a proxy warfare with Sisi by targeting those who adhere to his moderate Islamic philosophy. These victims included Muslim scholars such as Mohammed Abdallah Nasr, intellectuals such as attorney Ahmed Abdu Maher, reformers and public figures such as Islam Behery, and Ibrahim Issa. Islamists have even publicly contacted https://publish.twitter.com/?query=http ... dget=Tweet Abdallah Rushdy to seek his advice about murdering Ibrahim Issa and Islam Behery.

A dark event in Western history was the Catholic church's Inquisitions, during which the church punished heresy to counter dissent. While that tyrannical practice has long vanished in the West, blasphemy is prosecuted with impunity in Islamic-majority countries.

The result of Egypt's war against radical Islam will have profound implications for the Middle East and the world. The response in the West is critical, yet Sisi has been criticized and Islamists supported. This must change.

Western leaders need to make a choice between Muslim reformers and jihadist inquisitors.

There is an ideological war underway in the Middle East and Western leaders need to make a choice to join Muslim reformers across the Middle East or jihadist inquisitors of the Muslim Brotherhood and their ilk. Hiding behind nuanced positions is blatant cowardice.

Cynthia Farahat is a Fellow at the Middle East Forum and author of The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood's Industry of Death.