Egypt to appeal ruling in favor of Baha’is
Written by ry on May 3rd, 2006
So after the ruling last month by the Egyptian Administrative court that stated that Baha’is in that country would be able to identify themselves as Baha’is on their official government documents, the government has stated that they’re going to appeal the decision:
Religious Endowments Minister Mahmoud Hamdi Zakzouk told parliament the government would base its appeal on the opinion of the country’s leading Muslim cleric, the Sheikh of al-Azhar, that Baha’ism is not a “revealed religion” recognised by Muslims.
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One member of parliament, Gamal Akl of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, said the Baha’is were infidels who should be killed on the grounds that they had changed their religion.“The problem with the Baha’is is they are moved by Israeli fingers. We wish the Ministry of the Interior would not yield to the cheap blackmail of this deviant group,” added another Muslim Brotherhood member, Mustafa Awadallah.
It goes on to say that Zainab Radwan of the ruling National Democratic Party favoured recognising the Baha’is on identity cards issued by the state, but only because, “there is an interest in them being known rather than unknown so that they do not succeed in infiltrating the ranks of society and spreading their extremist and deviant ideology.”
It would seem that the struggles of the Baha’i community in Egypt are far from over.
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