International Political and Religious Rights Union: Al Nour Party Suppress Religious Minority

International Political and Religious Rights Union: Al Nour Party Suppress Religious Minority: International Political And Religious Rights Union Newsletter "We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp...

	International Political And Religious Rights Union Newsletter "We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors ...but they all have to learn to live in the same box." -Author Unknown Website:  Internationalpoliticalandreligiousrightsunion.weebly.com
January 06, 2011	Volume 1, Number 2
Contact Us Maher Khalil Executive Director Internationalpru@aol.com Article On Egypt	Al Nour Party Suppress Religious Minority Al Nour Party Candidates Al Nour Party (light) is also known as Salafi; instead it should be called the Dark Age Party. There is no light in the ideology of this party. This Party denies a Coptic to run for President. Here is an article in Bikyamasr. Egypt’s al-Nour Salafists say no to Coptic president Manar Ammar | 3 January 2012 CAIRO: Egypt’s al-Nour ultra-conservative political party announced that a Coptic Christian cannot become president of Egypt and that Egyptian society “will not accept a Christian president.” The puritan party’s spokesman wrote a statement published on the party’s website aiming to clear the controversy after Egypt’s al-Akhbar state-run newspaper published an interview with spokesman Mohamed Nour on December 31 in which he said that “the Egyptian society is not fit to accept a Coptic president.” The spokesman said that after going back to the leaders in the party it was agreed on that Egypt “will not accept a Christian president.” The Islamic political party was founded after the Egyptian uprising of January 2011 and has come in second place in the country’s first parliamentary elections following the revolution. “We see that the interpretation of the second band in the Egyptian Constitution which states Islam as the ‘official religion’ of the country, which automatically states that the president be a Muslim,” read the statement. “The party will make sure that the next Constitution directly states that,” the party’s website said. The statement added that many European countries with ancient democratic practices specifies the religion, and even the sect of the president, such as Greece and Spain and the “unwritten Constitution of the UK.” The spokesman also said the party doesn’t accept, under any circumstances, a civil state and wants a religious state built on Sharia, or Islamic law, as it is explained by scholars. “The Salafist movement completely refuses the notion of a civil or secular state and we want a state built on Islamic principals,” said the spokesman. This proves that the Al Nour Party does not recognize the Coptic minority as equal citizen. They confiscated the Copts of this fundamental right for being a non-Muslim. Al Nour Party leaders refused an invitation from Pope Shenouda III for the Christmas Mass, They stated that “Muslims should not congratulate a Christian in any feasts. “ In Quen, Egypt. The Salafi protested for days for a Coptic Governor to step down, for he is a Christian and he is forbidding governing Muslims. Also they have blocked all railroad access to Quen. During the Maspero Massacre that occurred in October 2011, which resulted in 27 Copts killed. Witness stated that the Salafi block the Copts escape route with swords. Not to mention the numerous churches, homes, business burned and blood shear of innocent people. The Al Nour Party is Saudi Arabia led style of Justice and restriction to individual freedom. This party should be banned and labeled as terrorist party that poses a threat to Egypt and the Arab world. Like Iran, they will try to spear hate and revolution.