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  • Egypt Salafi urges U.N. to criminalize contempt of Islam

    09/22/2012 6:52:05 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 31 replies
    Reuters ^ | Sept. 22, 2012 | Marwa Awad
    (Reuters) - Egypt's president and other Muslim leaders should demand the U.N. criminalize contempt of religion after the release of an anti-Islamic film and cartoons which demonstrate growing racism, said the leader of the biggest ultra-orthodox Islamist party. Despite doctrinal and political differences with President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafist Nour Party played a key role in supporting it during presidential elections in June. Led by Emad Abdel Ghaffour, it now ranks as the second-largest party in parliament and plays a formidable force in Egypt's new politics. "We call for legislation or a resolution to criminalize contempt of Islam...