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Article: Egypt’s Chief Justice Sponsors Injustice Again
Originaly Posted On: 2007-02-10 14:39:00

Today in Egypt’s Al-Ahrar newspaper, an article was published describing a ruling by Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court of the State’s Council [Magless el-Dawlah] headed by Chief Justice El-Saied Nofal. The article is entitled “Firing any employee who believes in Baha’i-yah and considering him apostate from Islam” and begins by stating the following:

“the court headed by Justice El-Saied Nofal has produced an historical judicial principle by ruling unanimously the necessity of firing any employee from his work who happens to belong to the Baha’i thought and to consider him an apostate and a heretic. The court affirmed in its ruling the firing of a female employee of the Ministry of Education who belongs to the Baha’i Faith…that the Baha’i belief is a heresy which violates all recognized divine religions and that it does not agree with any religion; that it (Baha’i) came to being in order to destroy Islam and that any person who believes in it is a “heretic;” if he was a Muslim and adopted it then he is an apostate who deserves punishment, the least of which–if he was an employee–is his immediate dismissal from his work, because this destructive religion which permits the forbidden and forbids the permitted and denies the presence of God and makes of Him a human being and permits the forbidden adultery and promotes impudence of women [etc, etc….]”

The article continues with the usual misrepresentations that have been released by the same court in its other rulings and statements, including that it [Baha’i] is a Zionist conspiracy intended to annihilate Islam. In saying so, it used these words: “universal Zionism is seeking to penetrate Islam and destroying it from within using its own sons.” It repeated many other misrepresentations that have been widely spread by Egypt’s extremists, including its Supreme Administrative Court.

Sadly, the only conclusions one can come up with after reading this article and the court’s statements it contains is that Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court has not ruled justly according to the standards entrusted to it by the people of Egypt. None of its statements have any foundation in truth and may promote ignorance and induce public strife.

Those who seek the truth are encouraged to simply go to any of the official Baha’i sites linked in the sidebar of this blog (English & Arabic) to see for themselves what the Baha’i Faith is all about….

P.S. In this publication, Al-Ahrar newspaper referred to a case that was ruled on in 1987 without stating so in its article, thus deceiving its readers by making it appear as if this case just happened. One would question the motives behind such an inflammatory article and the tactics used by a newspaper known for its low circulation. The seriousness of the statements made in this article appear to have the intention of fomenting hatred and suspicion, thus deserving a response.