Allah wept:
An Egyptian administrative court on February 18th upheld the Ministry of Religious Endowments’ decision issued in September 2013 to close down neighborhood places of worship of less than eighty square meters (861 square feet), a move intended to protect young people from the militancy and extremism that can prevail in such places, which lack the legal standing to hold Friday prayers.
This move sets a precedent that raises many questions about the fate of mosques in many Egyptian villages, the grounds of which are usually less than eighty square meters. In reply, opponents of the decision such as the Salafist Nour Party claimed that closing down places of worship without providing a larger alternative serves to further bolster extremist ideology, considering that the larger existing mosques cannot accommodate Friday worshippers who line surrounding streets to pray. On the opposite end of the spectrum, supporters of the decision such as intellectuals and scholars say that those mosques are time bombs that threaten national security, as they fall outside the purview of the Ministry of Religious Endowments and are used to spread subversive ideologies.
In the largest Arab Muslim country, the government is taking common sense steps to quash jihadist attacks before they can even be plotted. In Obamerikastan, local governments are replacing Christian and Jewish holidays with Muslim holidays, and the federal government is conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow President el-Sisi, exactly as they did President Mubarek four years ago.
The world really has turned upside down.
And we're on the wrong end.
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