Words for Malaysian religious conservatives, maybe especially for Hasan Ali and his sympathizers.<\/p>\n
In November, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, an independent Salafist cleric and presidential candidate, was asked by an interviewer how, as president, he would react to a woman wearing a bikini on the beach? \u201dShe would be arrested,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n
The Al Nour Party quickly said he was not speaking for it. Agence France-Presse quoted another spokesman for Al Nour, Muhammad Nour, as also dismissing fears raised in the news media that the Salafists might ban alcohol, a staple of Egypt\u2019s tourist hotels. \u201dMaybe 20,000 out of 80 million Egyptians drink alcohol,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201dForty million don\u2019t have sanitary water. Do you think that, in Parliament, I\u2019ll busy myself with people who don\u2019t have water, or people who get drunk?\u201d\u009d [Thomas Friedman. Political Islam Without Oi<\/a>l. New York Times<\/em>. January 10 2012]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Words for Malaysian religious conservatives, maybe especially for Hasan Ali and his sympathizers. In November, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, an independent Salafist cleric and presidential candidate, was asked by an interviewer how, as president, he would react to a woman wearing a bikini on the beach? \u201dShe would be arrested,\u201d\u009d he said. The Al Nour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,11],"tags":[331,1373,58,1377],"class_list":["post-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics-government","category-society","tag-egypt","tag-moral-policing","tag-religion","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9671,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions\/9671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}