Year: 2008

The latest religious fundamentalist filth coming from Mubarak’s NDP:

One of the lawyers affiliated with the Egyptian National Democratic Party NDP who is a specialist in Hesba cases (which claim be doing a service by eliminating what is harmful to Islamic society) against authors and artists demanded the flogging of an Egyptian female movie director and sent an official warning to the Sheikh of Azhar demanding the execution of such request, said Arabic Network of Human Rights Information ANHRI today.
The Hesba lawyer offered the Sheikh of Azhar eight days to execute the flogging of the prominent Egyptian female movie director, Enas El-Dighaidy, eighty lashes because of a movie she directed called ¨Diaries of a Teenager Girl¨ claiming that the film defames Egypt.
It is worth mentioning that this same Hesba lawyer demanded, in one of his previous court cases, the cross-cutting of an Egyptian actress because she refrained from wearing a veil. He was also one of the lawyers who demanded to put Ibrahim Eissa, Chief Editor of Aldostour Newspaper, on trial in the case known as ¨the President’s Health Case¨.

This is the ruling party of a regime that is described often in the Western press as “moderate,” “secular,” battling with “Islamic terrorism”.