A fatwa by a Syrian preacher in an Egyptian newspaper causes a crisis and popular anger

The newspaper "Al-Masry Al-Youm" caused widespread controversy on social networking sites in Egypt because of a publication it published in the paper newspaper.

The newspaper published a leaflet for a Syrian preacher named Muhammad Salih Al-Munajjid, saying: “What is the ruling on selling food during the day in Ramadan to an infidel?”

After this incident, Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper issued a statement apologizing for the mistake in publishing the fatwa. With this statement, the newspaper tried to absorb the state of popular anger against it.

The statement said: “Because acknowledgment of error is a virtue, the “Al-Masry Al-Youm” institution owes its readers a clear and explicit apology for what was published about an abnormal fatwa, which is the fatwa transmitted by one of the editors in Al-Masry Al-Youm - in a clear transgression and error - without scrutiny or measure, and this fatwa was released The adjective “disbelief” refers to those who are different in religion, a description that the Egyptian today does not use at all, and does not agree with, and these descriptions draw a framework for negative pests that afflicted many in Egyptian society, “Al-Masry Al-Youm” has always tried throughout its history to confront and fight them. .

And the preacher Muhammad Salih Al-Munajjid Faqih is a Syrian preacher of Palestinian origin residing in Saudi Arabia. He was born to Palestinian refugee parents in Syria, then his family traveled to Saudi Arabia, where he grew up and grew up there until he obtained a bachelor’s degree from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Management. Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Baz, when he directed him to work as an imam and preacher in the Eastern Province when he was under thirty years old.

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