I don’t understand why the Western MSM refers to the Al-Azhar as the “most prestigious religious institution in the Muslim World.”
The institution is co-opted by Mubarak’s regime, which appoints the Grand Sheikh. The institution is full of medieval theologians, like the so-called “Al-Azhar Scientists Front.”
And the new Grand Sheikh starts his tenure by lobbying for more censorship.
I wish to see this institution dissolved.
Disgusting and alarming. James Buck is accused by the Mubarak’s regime of “defaming Egypt’s reputation through articles and pictures published about 2008 civil unrest.”
Journalist James Buck was denied entry at the Cairo Airport passport control, and was deported to Dubai.
The Cairo Airport has become an ongoing saga over the past couple of years, with repeated harassment against both activists and journalists.
Buck is a talented mutlimedia journalist based in Oakland, California, who bravely covered the Mahalla uprising in 2008, and was briefly held in police custody.