The Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments have launched a campaign to remove the books of scholars that belong to the Salafi movement from all mosques in Egypt.

Names of scholars whose books are to be removed or confiscated:-

– Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab

– Imam Ibn Taymiyyah

– Sheikh Ibn Baz

– Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen

– Sheikh Abu Ishaq al-Huweini

– Sheikh Mohamed Hussein Yacoub

– Sheikh Mohammed Hassan

They have already confiscated 7000 books and CDs from mosque libraries in Cairo, Alexandria and Giza. The authors of these materials include:

– Sheikh Wagdi al-Ghoneim

– Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi

– Sheikh Muhammad al-Maqsood

– Yasser al-Burhami

– Sheikh Abu Ishaq al-Huweini

– Sheikh Mohamed Hussein Yacoub

– Sheikh Mohammed Hassan

The ministry’s department is currently launching an inspection campaign on mosques and libraries in all provinces, to make sure they are free of any books and media calling for “militancy and extremism”.

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