AFRICA/EGYPT - The campaign to "clean up" the bookshops and libraries of mosques of extremist propaganda continues

Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Operations to collect all books and materials of extremist and fundamentalist propaganda, that had been widely disseminated especially during the government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, have been going on for a year in bookshops and libraries of mosques in all of Egypt. The news was reported, during a television program, by Sheikh Mohammed Abdel Razek, a senior official of the Ministry for Religious endowment (Waqf), confirming that the work ahead is still long, and that the operation of remediation is carried out in collaboration with the teams of the Ministry of National Security.
Abdel Razek confirmed that the imams of individual mosques are to be considered ultimately responsible for possible infiltration of extremist propaganda in places of worship. This is also why the Waqf has been promoting training courses for a long time aimed at addressing the emergency of the spread of both atheism and Islamic extremism. The goal to strive for is to disseminate robust antidote to Islamist radicalism among the 120 thousand imams and Egyptian preachers.
Meanwhile, on Monday, June 22, as reported by the presidential spokesman Alaa Yousef, President Abdel Fattah al Sisi urged government officials to review the educational curricula, in order to contrast the endemic phenomenon of violence and harassment suffered in impressive percentages by Egyptian girl students in schools and universities. (GV) (Agenzia Fides 24/06/2015)