{"id":2230,"date":"2007-08-02T23:02:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T23:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2007-08-02T23:02:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T23:02:50","slug":"2007-8-2-christian-convert-seeks-recognition-in-egypt-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"Christian convert seeks recognition in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070802\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptreligionislam_070802170426\">Christian convert seeks recognition in Egypt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CAIRO (AFP) &#8211; An Egyptian who converted from Islam to Christianity has launched a bid to have the change recognised officially in what is believed to be the first such case, he told AFP on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Coptic rights group the Al-Kalima Centre brought the case on behalf of Mohammed Ahmed Higazi, 25, who said he wanted to have his conversion recognised officially so that his child would be born Christian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In light of the current controversy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070726\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptreligion_070726175007\">Mufti&#8217;s flip-flopping on conversion<\/a> and the more general concern over growing sectarian tension in Egypt, this could be explosive. I would not be completely surprised if State Securtity intervened to keep this matter out of the courtroom, considering their <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/04\/28\/the-coptic-question\/\">habit of turning every sectarian issue into a security one<\/a>. It could also agitate the more unhinged Islamists out there.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070802\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptreligionislam_070802170426\">Christian convert seeks recognition in Egypt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CAIRO (AFP) &#8211; An Egyptian who converted from Islam to Christianity has launched a bid to have the change recognised officially in what is believed to be the first such case, he told AFP on Thursday.<br \/>\nCoptic rights group the Al-Kalima Centre brought the case on behalf of Mohammed Ahmed Higazi, 25, who said he wanted to have his conversion recognised officially so that his child would be born Christian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In light of the current controversy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070726\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptreligion_070726175007\">Mufti&#8217;s flip-flopping on conversion<\/a> and the more general concern over growing sectarian tension in Egypt, this could be explosive. I would not be completely surprised if State Securtity intervened to keep this matter out of the courtroom, considering their <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/04\/28\/the-coptic-question\/\">habit of turning every sectarian issue into a security one<\/a>. It could also agitate the more unhinged Islamists out there.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}