DAR AL ISLAM - EGYPT: "I BELIEVER THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF CONVERTS"

MUSLIM SUES FOR RIGHT TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY
Christian’s attorney facing death threats from Egyptian security police.

ISTANBUL, August 6 (Compass Direct News) – A Muslim convert to Christianity filed suit against Egypt last week for refusing to legally recognize his change of religion, sparking a reactionary lawsuit by Muslim clerics and death threats against his lawyer. Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy, 24, brought a case against Egypt’s interior ministry on August 2 for rejecting his application to replace Islam with Christianity on his personal identification papers. Though Egyptian law does not forbid conversion from Islam to Christianity, it provides no legal means to make the change. Converts to Christianity usually hide their identity to avoid torture and forced recantation at the hands of family members and security police. Hegazy is the first Muslim-by-birth to openly challenge the government’s restriction of conversion away from Islam. “I believe there are thousands of converts,” Hegazy said.

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