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15. A Coptic researcher comments on the 37 presidential decrees issued concerning church building since 2005, and not the 138 that Mufīd Shihāb alleged

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Year: 
2010
Week: 
16
Article number: 
14
Article pages: 
13
Date of source: 
April 16, 2010
Author: 
Hānī Samīr
Reviewer: 
Han&#299 Lab&#299b Ish&#257q
Article summary: 
The author reports on research by ‘Ādil Jundī, who comments on the real number of presidential decrees regarding building churches.
Article full text: 
The Coptic activist, ‘Ādil Jundī, denies the veracity of what Dr. Mufīd Shihāb, Minister of State for Legal Affairs, declared before the International Council for Human Rights, that President Mubārak has issued 138 presidential decrees of building churches since 2005. In his research, Jundī confirms that the president has issued 122 presidential decrees over this period, and only 38 out of them were for building churches. Jundī believes that the state, in Mubārak’s age, has revived an imperial edict and stuck to the fiqh principle, which imposes ahl al-dhimmah, not to build a new church or monastery, and not to renew or restore what has been damaged without permission. 
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