On the anniversary of his departure .. The story of the book fair debate the cause of the assassination of Faraj Foda

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Today marks the 26th anniversary of the death of the great thinker Faraj Fouda after his assassination by two young men belonging to the Islamic Group on June 9, 1992.

The assassination of the great thinker came on the backdrop of a debate at the Cairo International Book Fair on January 7 of the same year, in the face of Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali, Dr. Muhammad Amara and the Hudaibi advisor, and by Dr. Samir Sarhan, who were attended by many men of thought, culture and art in Egypt.

On June 3, 1992, Al-Noor Islamic newspaper published a case of insulting and defamation after it was accused of displaying pornographic films and running concerts of the group sex in the Arab Women's Solidarity Society, a case that was on its way to losing. Al-Nour) issued a statement from the symposium of Takfr Faraj Fouda and calls on the Committee of Parties to not approve the establishment of his party (the future).

According to an article by Dr. Khaled Montasser, published in an Egyptian newspaper, Foda was the subject of logic and reason. He was met six months later on June 9, 1992 with bullets and blood. The director of the symposium, Dr. Samir Sarhan, As a result of his sense of guilt after it became clear that the decision to assassinate came after this debate.

The subject of the debate was the religious state and the civil state, and Faraj Foda was the most prominent advocate of the separation of religion from the state. Ghazali saw that colonialism abolished the verse of the verse from the Koran, and that it is based on the divine heritage and that the laws of heaven are not governed by us. , And when the role of the talk came to the great thinker Faraj Foda, Samir Sarhan repeated his call to the attendees to commit to urbanization in the comment, and to refrain from cheering, the atmosphere was hot, and heated up after talking to Dr. Mohamed Amara, and attacked secularism, Faraj Fouda began the debate by saying, Its facets of Present, the applause and cheering, whether for support or objection, shows the lack of confidence of the public who represents him on the podium, and I think this is not possible. "

Dr. Samir Sarhan, who called this debate, was not the beginning of the end for writer and thinker Faraj Fouda, and that it would be the cause of his assassination by a group of those who called themselves "the Islamic Group" and as a result of the fatwa of Umar Abdul Rahman Mufti of that group.

The assassination took place six months later. The writer and thinker Faraj Foda was preparing to leave his office with his son on Asma Fahmy Street in Heliopolis. The bullet that penetrated his body while his son sustained minor injuries.

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