MUST READ: AL-AZHAR: THE UNIVERSITY OF TERRORISM

Al-Azhar: The University of Terrorism
by Kareem Amer

I was not surprised when some security bureaus announced that one of those who executed the recent Sinai Peninsula bombings was an Al-Azhar University student from the Faculty of The Fundamentals of Religion. I am well aware that this university is one of Egypt's important producers of terrorism through its academic curricula, with which it strongly fills students' minds, and so turns them into human monsters that do not hesitate to harm whoever announces his disagreement with them. This is because their curricula have taught them – in all simplicity – that those who differ from them do not have a place in this life.

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Al-Azhar University does not move a muscle when one of its students blows himself up, or heads off to kill the defenseless innocents. Yet, it raises hell when one of its students has an independent, bold, and free opinion!

Today, and only today, I have realized the truth of the security forces' connivance with religious extremism in Egypt. I learnt well how the regime lives on this terrorism, and that its existence is based on the existence of extremist groups, and the extremist (Al Azhar) university as well. This regime's disappearance is necessarily coupled with their disappearance.

Kareem Amer is an young Egyptian blogger who has been jailed for allegedly insulting Islam. The article below is an English translation of one of his blog entry published on May 7, 2006, approximately two months after his expulsion from Al-Azhar University.

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1) Al-Azhar: The University of Terrorism