Category: #Islamic Freedom

Egyptian Editor Hassan El Helali reports that the recent winner of the Egyptian State Award for Social Sciences award, Dr. Sayed El Qemany, is being threatened with “excommunication” and “incitements to kill” by extremist individuals, leaders, and organizations, including Egyptian Grand Sheik Ali Gomaa and the Muslim Brotherhood.

According to this report, Dr. Sayed El Qemany has issued “an appeal to the world’s conscience from the Egyptian writer and academic researcher of Islamic Affairs Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany who is being exposed to incite to assassinate him.”

The reports of such extremist pronouncements and threats demonstrate the continuing threat of such organizations to freedom, equality, liberty, and democracy, and  demonstrate why those of us who support our Universal Human Rights must never endorse or legitimize engagement or negotiations with such extremists.

Please ACT TODAY to denounce such reported extremist threats against Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany.  Tell our government leaders and representatives to publicly denounce such threats and state that they must not engage with leaders and organizations that use such supremacist threats to silence those in support of freedom.  Tell our representatives that we will not sell away our Universal Human Rights to such extremist leaders and organizations, such as the Muslim Brotherhood which have demonstrated, once again, their denial of such human rights and their goal to intimidate and threaten free people into submission.

We are not afraid, we will not be threatened, and we will not submit to those who seek to take our Universal Human Rights away.

What You Can Do About It

Act today to:

1. Tell U.S. President Barack Obama that you support our Universal Human Rights, and that you call on him to publicly denounce the reports of calls for “excommunication” by the extremist Muslim Brotherhood and “incitements to kill” by leaders and organizations such as the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa against Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany.  Tell President Obama that the Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist organization that defies our universal human rights of equality and liberty, and that uses its extremist ideology to threaten and silence others around the world.  Tell President Obama that it is essential that the United States never engages with such an anti-freedom organization.   The goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States are well documented.

2. Tell your U.S. Congressional Representative that you support our Universal Human Rights, and that you expect your Congressional Representative to act publicly denounce the reports of calls for “excommunication” by the extremist Muslim Brotherhood and “incitements to kill” by leaders and organizations such as the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa against Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany.  Tell your U.S. Congressional Representative that you expect their action to block any bills that would legitimize or promote engagement with extremist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

3. Tell your U.S. Senator that you support our Universal Human Rights, and that you expect your Senator to act publicly denounce the reports of calls for “excommunication” by the extremist Muslim Brotherhood and “incitements to kill” by leaders and organizations such as the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa against Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany.  Tell your U.S. Senator that you expect their action to block any bills that would legitimize or promote engagement with extremist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

4. Tell the United Nations that their leaders and bodies must publicly support the Universal Human Rights that we all believe in through their action in condemning extremist organizations that share a history of denial of freedom, equality, and liberty — and that consistently threaten human rights activists around the world.  Demand that the United Nations act to publicly denounce the reports of calls for “excommunication” by the extremist Muslim Brotherhood and “incitements to kill” by leaders and organizations such as the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa against Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany.

5. Let the “Experts” Know That Our Universal Human Rights Are a Priority.  Our representatives in government continue to be led by a series of individuals that call for engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood and Ali Gomaa. This is the same Muslim Brotherhood that is calling for “excommunication” of Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany.  This is the same Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa that is supporting “incitements to kill” against Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany.   Let them know you won’t stay silent any longer as they offer “expert” advice that undermines our Universal Human Rights, by legitimizing and supporting engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups.

— Tell George Mason University Professor Peter Mandaville that you reject his calls to the U.S. West Point Combating Terrorism Center (p.5) to call for engaging with Muslim Brotherhood groups on U.S. counterterrorism solutions — our support for our Universal Human Rights comes first!

— Tell the U.S. Muslim-Engagement Project that you reject their call for “engagement” with the Muslim Brotherhood in their September 2008 report “Changing Course” (pages 54, 56, 60, 61) — our support for our Universal Human Rights comes first!

— Tell Republican U.S. Senator Richard Lugar that you reject his call for supporting the U.S. Muslim-Engagement Project calling for “engagement” with the Muslim Brotherhood — our support for our Universal Human Rights comes first!

— Tell Democratic U.S. Congressman Howard Berman that you reject his call for supporting the U.S. Muslim-Engagement Project calling for “engagement” with the Muslim Brotherhood — our support for our Universal Human Rights comes first!

6.  Sign Our Online Petition Letting the World Know You Stand Up for Human Rights! Our online petition defends our universal human rights against the growing threat of extremist organizations, and that we defy those extremist groups that would threaten Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany or any fellow human being that seeks freedom of thought and freedom of conscience — simply because we share the same universal human rights — and attack on their human rights – is an attack on our human rights.  We are Responsible for Equality And Liberty!

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Hassan El Helali reports:
“An appeal to the world’s conscience from the Egyptian writer and academic researcher of Islamic Affairs Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany who is being exposed to incite to assassinate him.”

“In the context of my academic research and practical work I have been able to provide an important set of motion in the stagnant Egyptian situation. I have attempted to make reforms from the inside and worked on the disarmament of those who exploit Islam politically and make it a source of livelihood at the expense of simple good people of Egypt. I have therefore created a secular movement that has imposed its presence, although still at a formative stage.”

“In a free ballot of Egyptian thinkers, I was granted the State Award for Social Sciences, on June 25th 2009. The hard-line radical militant groups considered that the state has adopted this intellectual secular trend officially, infuriating the mentioned group which called on the State to withdraw the prize with the declaration of my defection from Islam and excommunication which means in our country, I could be slain; any citizen is allowed to kill me and be awarded by God in Paradise.”

“The following parties have participated in the statements of atonement, noting that none of them have read a single word of what I wrote, and have not been able to hold a dialogue to discuss my ideas.”

“1 – Al-Azhar Scholars Front headed by Yahya Ismail Habloush, which issued the first statement of atonement on July 10, 2009”
“2 – The Islamic Group (condemned terrorist group) issued a statement of atonement on July 10, 2009”
“3 – The Muslim Brotherhood hailed the atonement, and were presented at the parliament by Hamdi Hassan requesting the withdrawal of the award and the declaration of religious-defection and excommunication on July 7, 2009. The Muslim Brotherhood also declared my excommunication on Mohwar Channel on July 11, 2009 and on Al Faraeen Channel on July 13, 2009”
“4 – The Salafi (Fundamentalist) Group (condemned terrorist group) dedicated its Internet site named ‘The Egyptians’ for excommunicating me and incitements to kill me, since the date of obtaining the prize until today.”
“5 – Al Nas channel, which represents the theoretical side of bloody terrorism which declared excommunication and demanded ‘all citizens who can’ to kill me immediately, on July 24 and 25, 2009.”
“6 – The Hisbah Sheikh Youssef Al Badri in Egypt declared on the channel ‘ON TV’ on July 3, 2009 that I have cursed God and the Prophet Mohammad in my books even though I have challenged him and others to refer to a single text written by me where such claims were made. Due to this proclamation, he has issued an incitement to kill me.”
“7 – A member of the Al-Azhar scholars, Sheikh Mohammed El Berry, on Mihwar TV Channel on July 11, 2009 announced my atonement as he also said that he did not read any of my writings since he does not read ‘garbage’. He repeated the same words on the channel ‘ON TV’ on July 22, 2009.”
“8 – Sheikh Ali Gomaa, the former Chairman of the ‘State Religious Affairs Advisory Board’, issued a statement declaring my infidelity and calling for slaying me for ‘insulting the Prophet of Islam, the God of Islam’ on July 24, 2009.”
“9 – The Sheiks of more than 5000 mosques on Friday prayers on July 24, 2009 declared the incitement to kill me, especially in my hometown, which led to the rampage against my family and relatives, and that could possibly evolve to some serious consequences in the coming weeks.”

“Due to the above, I call upon the conscience of all humanity in the free world to come to me and my children’s rescue by providing moral support and the condemnation and denunciation of the radical thinking with quick solutions to save us from the danger that is luring around us.”

“This is a distress call to all bodies and individuals. A call to the consciences of every free individual in the world.”

“Signed
“Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany- Researcher”