Shame

Well, BP is ashamed to announce this to his English readers, but I think everybody should know.

The story from the beginning:
A month ago, a renounced Islamic writer called Mohamed Omara published a book with the authorization of the minister for religious affairs, in this book Omara quoted an old Muslim cleric "Sheikh Elghazaly" in a fatwa saying that Christians are non-believers, and that it is the right for Muslims to shed their blood and possess their properties.
And the book was published as such, until Egyptian Christians (Copts) started making noise and a case was filed at the public prosecutor against Mr. Omara and the Minister citing spreading of hatred and disrupting national unity. Copts said that this was an invitation to kill and steal Christians.
Anyway, later on the fanatic Mr. Omara published a lame apology in the Coptic paper called "Wattani" claiming that he quoted the old cleric without properly revising his work, and these were not his opinions regarding Copts and so.
Then the Minister for religious affairs also produced an apology and orders were made to collect all printed version of this book and another version is to be printed without this paragraph.

All this is not what BP and every moderate Egyptian is ashamed of, what is really scary is that the weekly paper "Elfagr" conducted a poll on its website asking if readers agree with the original Fatwa regarding Christians or not, and the results were:

- 56.5% Yes
- 38% No
- 5.4% No comment

Surprised? Well I'm not.

Waldorf