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Thu Jun 15 13:24:23 CEST 2006
A religiously motivated attack on statues at a museum in Cairo has sparked
outcry in Egypt and fuelled fears that the country is veering towards an
Islamic state.
The attack on three artworks, by a black-clad and veiled woman screaming,
"Infidels, infidels!" followed a fatwa issued by the Grand Mufti of Cairo,
Ali Gomaa, which banned all decorative statues of living beings. the golden
death mask of Tutankhamen and the colossus of Amenhotep Possible targets in
future: Tutankhamen and Amenhotep
It led to furious criticism of the mufti from Egyptian liberals. In a
televised debate with the mufti after the attack, one poet raged that "the
prevalent religious discourse in the country encourages terror".
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