Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

... To be honest, I did not know how to answer Al-Mougi’s article, for it is all wrong. However, it is not his fault. It is the fault of the method - the whole method - the Islamic extremist groups use... the author deliberately lied - I apologize for saying this - when he said that Farag Foda wrote bad articles about God, Islam, and His prophet. We have said a thousand times that there is a difference between disagreeing with, opposing or even attacking a scholar or a Sahabi [companion of Mohammed], and attacking Islam itself as a religion... Farag Foda attacked the previous Sheikh of the Azhar, and Al-Bukhari [the most famous and trusted collector of Mohammed’s tradition], but he did not attack Islam, Mohammed, or the God of all people. Farag Foda believed that holiness is for God alone, and that humans make errors. I demand that Al-Mougi show me immediately where are Foda’s articles or books where he attacked God. I am not defending Farag Foda but attacking this dangerous method...



What respectable writer would mock a person who was assassinated by a terrorist!... Al-Mougi declares that if Islam was applied, the majority would be killed for leaving Islam. This is a new Takfir[ calling one a disbeliever] for the whole society... Al-Mougi did not forget to talk also about the Kafara [disbelievers] of Christianity. I ask him and you: Why at this specific time does Al-Mougi and his people talk about calling the Copts disbelievers? Why are they doing the Zionist’s job of tearing Egypt to pieces while telling us about how much we should hate the Jews... I want you to believe that terrorism has its media machine...



Why did Al-Mougi lie and say that Farag Foda was not accepted by all the national and political parties’ newspapers, while Al-Mougi himself was engaged in battle with him on the pages of Al-Ahrar?



I want to ask you tens of questions brother Mougi... However, I thank you because everyday you reveal yourselves [for what you are].