Egypt: Islamists fear religious freedom will cause ’societal havoc’

by Kal El on May 13, 2009 · Comments

In other words, they know damn well that given the choice of conversion without the mandatory fatwa that follows, many will abandon islam, and join the 21st century. I hope the court serves justice appropriately.

EGYPT: CONVERT’S RELIGIOUS RIGHTS CASE THREATENS ISLAMISTS

Muslims said to fear that freedom to legally change religion would wreak societal havoc.

CAIRO, Egypt, May 12 (Compass Direct News) – In the dilapidated office here of three lawyers representing one of Egypt’s “most wanted” Christian converts, the mood was hopeful in spite of a barrage of death threats against them and their client. At a court hearing on May 2, a judge agreed to a request by the convert from Islam to join the two cases he has opened to change his ID card to reflect his new faith. The court set June 13 as the date to rule on Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah El-Gohary’s case, and lawyer Nabil Ghobreyal said he was hopeful that progress thus far will lead to a favorable ruling. At the same time, El-Gohary’s lawyers termed potentially “catastrophic” for Egyptian human rights a report sent to the judge by the State Council, a consultative body of Egypt’s Administrative Court. Expressing outrage at El-Gohary’s “audacity” to request a change in the religious designation on his ID, the report claims the case is a threat to societal order and violates sharia (Islamic law). “This [report] is bombarding freedom of religion in Egypt,” said lawyer Said Faiz. “They are insisting that the path to Islam is a one-way street. The entire report is based on sharia.”

How typical of the islamists. Once again we see that islamobullsh*t that there is no compulsion in religion tossed out the window when one tries to leave the 7th century death cult. Anytime someone tries to leave the “one true religion” they get death threats. Just like anyone living in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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  • locksanddeadbolts
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  • ilhan
    its free in turkey but not a lot of converts over there. they dont live very islamic though. fornication and gay sex are legal as well as bikini... to those who think turkey is saudi arabia
  • Beejj
    Yes, Kemal's influence is not yet extinguished, but just wait a while .......
  • JEWHAWK
    Ilhan,GAY SEX is included in your filthy Koran.That's an ISLAMIC TRADITION,
    besides making love to camels,cows,donkeys and your muse,the mighty GOAT,which,according to your satanic book called Koran,is much more valuable than a
    WOMAN,explaining WHY muslims treat their own females so badly.

    ISLAM SUCKS.PERIOD.
  • citizen
    Egypt needs to look out the window to see Turkey. Turkey is the best example of what a Muslim Country with "religious tolerance" looks like.
  • SirWilhelm
    No matter what their personal beliefs, I can't understand how anyone that lives in a country with freedom of religion and seperation of church and state, and freedom of the press, can not see the threat that Islam represents. Only the self deception of that popular psychological term, denial, can possibly explain it to me.
  • JEWHAWK
    Egyptian society doesn't tolerate non-muslims,for they CONTAMINATE the Ummah.
    Muslims DEMAND special treatment in the West,while DENYING the same for those non-muslims in their lands.Isn't curious?

    Ask any Egyptian Copt about how well they're treated,not only by the police state,
    Cairo regime but by the civillians as well.
  • hellosnackbar
    And until Egypt accepts freedom of "faith "it can never be accepted as a serious country and will stay as a turd world backwater.
  • Beejj
    Will those idiots who write to this site, proclaiming those of us who do our utmost to open the world's eyes to the malignancy of Islam to be bigots and worse, please read this. THIS is what we are fighting against. You can sit on your butts doing damn all, thinking yourselves SO caring, SO understanding, SO mature of thought, SO reasonable, SO wise and fondly imagine that your sterling qualities will be seen by muslims as reason to moderate their ambitions, but you are wrong. Not only wrong, but damned. Cease your gutless brainlessness forthwith and meet the threat unflinchingly. Don't betray the generations to come.
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