Egypt

Egyptian researched Mohamed Gad El-Zoghby was asked in a February 9, 2019 interview on Safa TV (Saudi Arabia/Egypt) who was worse: Adolf Hitler or Imam Khomeini. He answered: "Objectively speaking, Hitler wins. But as far as we're concerned, we should erect a statue of Hitler for...

During an interview with German-Egyptian political scientist and author Hamed Abdel-Samad that was uploaded to Abdel-Samad’s YouTube channel on January 14, 2019, Egyptian-Canadian writer Said Shoaib said that imams in the West embrace colonialist Islam and deceive Westerners by t...

During a debate about polygamy that aired on December 23, 2018, on Al-Rahma TV (Egypt), pro-polygamy activist Saber Ghanem said that Egypt has a “ticking time bomb” of 11 million women who are past the age of marriage. He explained that everyone, including these women, have natur...

During a Friday sermon at the Al-Adawi Mosque in Mit Asas, Egypt, Sheikh Ahmad Abd Al-Bari said that the leading reason that wives refuse their husbands' calls to bed are movies and TV series that have taught them to be disobedient. He said that these shows have given women the i...

During a show that aired on Al-Watan TV (Turkey-Based Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood) on December 29, Egyptian cleric Sameh Al-Juba said that even though Allah forbade killing people who have a peace treaty with the Muslims, this does not apply to the Jews, because they do not abide...

Egyptian actor Khaled Abol Naga said during a December 31 interview with France 24 Arabic TV that the Arab Spring uprising that swept the Arab world was like a "huge wave of fresh seawater that came and shattered [the old] regimes." He said that although the Arab world is current...

During a December 24 show on Al-Rahma TV (Egypt), Egyptian cleric Muhammad Al-Zoghbi said that despite what some "fossilized [Muslim] fanatics" say, a woman does not become forbidden to her husband if he swallows some of her breast milk during foreplay. Al-Zoghbi explained that a...

During a January 7, 2017 address at the Al-Khulafa Al-Rashideen Mosque in Sixth of October City near Cairo, Egyptian cleric Samir Hashish referred to a hadith in Sahih Al-Bukhari that says that Muslims should not be put to death for killing infidels, and he said that some people ...

During a December 26,2018, show on Al-Nahar TV (Egypt), TV host Tamer Amin criticized Liverpool F.C., to which Egyptian soccer superstar Mohamed Salah belongs, for considering signing an Israeli soccer player onto the team, as some press reports have indicated. The player in ques...

During a show on the Turkey-based Muslim Brotherhood's Mekameleen TV, Egyptian TV host Mohammed Nasser said that until the advent of cinema, the Jews were the outcasts of the world and had an image of being despicable, stinky, greedy, miserly, shabby-clothed, and big-nosed. He us...

During an address delivered in Lebanon on November 30, 2018, Egyptian cleric Zaghloul Al-Naggar said that despite their military might, the Jews are characterized by cowardice, clinging to life, and a tendency to flee from confrontation. He said that they are therefore unfit to b...

During a show on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Elsharq TV (based in Turkey), Egyptian journalist Emad Albeheery criticized journalist Khaled Salah for Tweeting a call to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. He also criticized Egyptian poet Fatima Naoot for praising the J...

On December 13, 2018, Dar al-Ifta' al-Misriyyah (The Egyptian Fatwa Institute) uploaded an animated video to their YouTube channel encouraging Muslims to greet Christians on their holidays. The narrator said that congratulating non-Muslims during their holidays is encouraged by I...

During a November 13, 2018 show that aired on Sada Al-Balad TV (Egypt) discussing population growth in Egypt, TV host Ahmed Moussa claimed that Egypt's "terrible and unparalleled" population growth is leading the country to catastrophe. Sheikh Saeed Numan, who is a cleric at Al-A...

During a TV debate on wife beating, Egyptian TV host Said Hassassin quoted a statistic that said that Egypt is number one worldwide in wives beating their husbands. Egyptian researcher Huwayda Abdul Khaleq said that according to shari'a law, a man may beat his wife after he has a...

Sheikh Saeed Numan, an Egyptian cleric at Al-Azhar University and a former member of the Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee, said that a marriage contract can be made between a female fetus and a male fetus by their respective guardians, and it would simply be suspended until the children ...

During a session of the World Youth Forum that was convened in Sharm Al-Sheikh, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was asked about Western countries preventing the entrance of people from undeveloped countries. He answered: "Instead of asking me why the West closes its gates...

Egyptian actress Rania Youssef attended the Cairo International Film Festival, which took place on November 20-29, 2018, wearing a mesh dress that exposed her shoulders and her legs. Charges are being pressed against Youssef for "inciting debauchery" because of her dress, and she...

Mohammed Nasser, an Egyptian TV host on Mekameleen TV, one of the TV channels affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood broadcasting from Turkey, talked about the Rothschild family's alleged control of the world's economy. He said that Mayer Rothschild sent his five sons to take con...

On November 15, 2018, the Islamic State (ISIS) in Sinai, Egypt, released a video featuring Egyptian army and security personnel who had deserted and joined ISIS. One of the fighters, Hanafi Jamas Mahmoud Sulaiman, was a former special forces instructor. He is shown interrogating ...

TV host Dina Zakaria of the Turkey-based Muslim Brotherhood channel Watan TV praised Egyptian policeman Suleiman Khater, who had perpetrated the 1985 Ras Burqa Massacre. On October 5, 1985, Khater murdered seven Israelis, including four children, who had been vacationing in Sinai...

Egyptian filmmaker Khaled Youssef said that religious fascist regimes are more dangerous than political dictatorships because anybody who disagrees with the Islamist regime is seen as an infidel who disagrees with God and must, therefore, be killed. He said that political tyranni...

Egyptian TV channel Alhadath Alyoum hosted a debate on wife beating in Egyptian society. Sociologist Manal Al-'Assal said that the culture of wife-beating starts with the family, which encourages boys to beat their sisters. Sayyed Ali, who hosted the debate, said that battered wo...

Egyptian author Dr. Tarek Heggy said that it is not unreasonable for Westerners to draw their own conclusions when they observe that most terrorists are Muslims, even if not all Muslims are terrorists. He said that a secular state is not an infidel state, explaining that it is si...