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Following are excerpts from an interview with Abd Al-Mun'im Al-Shahhat, spokesman of the Egyptian Salafi movement, which aired on Al-Nahhar TV on December 2, 2011:
Interviewer: Go ahead and say what you think of Naguib Mahfouz.
Abd Al-Mun'im Al-Shahhat: In my view, the literature of Naguib Mahfouz encourages depravity. It all takes place in drug dens, where people smoke hashish, and in whorehouses. Children of Geblawi is a symbolic philosophy story, with an atheist aspect. That is my view, and nobody can prevent me from expressing it.
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If you ask me whether the state should prohibit atheist literature – this question should be referred to Al-Azhar's Academy for Islamic Research.
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