Middle East Focus: “Arabian Nights” Sued, Egypt as a Prostrate Receptacle of Wahhabi Intolerance and Reaction……..

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“Arabian Nights” Sued, Egypt as a Prostrate Receptacle of Wahhabi Intolerance and Reaction……..

“New Actio popularis Team Members Calling for Banning ” A Thousand and One Nights” and Jailing Writers and intellectuals. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said, today, that the failure of the Egyptian government to take a clear stance regarding the religious and political Hesba cases has encouraged more religious extremists and publicity seekers to join the “Actio popularis” team. Some lawyers filed a communiqué to the Prosecutor General in order to confiscate A Thousand and One Nights book and imprison its publishers at the general authority of culture palaces affiliate to the ministry of culture, claiming that the heritage script ” is offensive to public decency”. On 17/4/2010 , a number of lawyers filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General, calling to open an investigation with Ahmad Megahed, Gamal Ghitani , writer, Gamal Askary , Saad Abdel Rahman and Susan Abdel Rahman who are responsible for publishing ”Zakhaer” (treasures) series issued by the general authority of cultural palaces at the ministry of culture. The lawyers filed their complaint as per article # 178 of the penal code, which fines and punishes “with imprisonment for a period of two years anyone who published literature, pictures, offensive to public decency”. Naturally , the book would be confiscated, too. So far, two parts of “A Thousand and One Nights" have been published and the lawyers considered them as evidence against the complained…………..”

Now they want to ban the publication of the greatest ancient classic of our region “A Thousand and One Nights”, a ka Arabian Nights (a misnomer).
Egypt’s courts are about as independent as Romanian courts under Ceauşescu. Egypt’s courts have been issuing strange rulings in recent years, mainly of the Wahhabi religious type. People have gone to prison, exiled, and fined because fundamentalists and/or bribed judges ruled that they insulted Islam or the public morals. The main insult to Islam is what all these depots and dictators are doing to their peoples each and every day. The kelptocrats who rule across the Arab world, dictators and monarchs, would be flogged by both Omar and Ali for stealing, and they would be flogged for oppressing their peoples, and for living opulently from the public’s wealth.

This is a direct result of over thirty years of opening Egypt to the fundamentalist winds of Wahhabi Salafism from the east, an ill wind tinged with the odor of petroleum. It is the same wind that has led to the beheadings of people on such absurd charges as sorcery and magic across the sea. It is the same wind that has a Lebanese television man on death row in Saudi Arabia for a show he performed ‘in Lebanon’. Egypt of the Mubarak clan has become the willing and prostrate receptacle of this reactionary and intolerant ideology from across the Red Sea.
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