Egypt Get's Its Unofficial Morality Police Force

So Egypt is taking the next step to turning into another Iran or Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan with the creation of a brand-spanking new 'unofficial' morality police force for Cairo.  The newly minted Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice will make sure no-one strays from the Islamic moral path, although the founder- Cleric Hisham al-Ashri- swears it will be nothing like its Saudi namesake. Only "non-violent methods" for the Egyptian CPVP. According to the IB Times:

El-Ashri said: "We will only offer advice to those who want to listen. We shall have no business with people who refuse to listen to us."

Right. Maybe for now but that will definitely change once they get established.  In fact, Bikya News said the Salafists will have canes to punish violators, and eventually will move into the 21st century by getting tasers.

Al-Ashri is the same man who,

Following his recent return from the U.S. al-Ashri gave a television interview during which he declared: "It is the dream of my life to wage war against Israel." He also stated: "There is no such thing as a Christian religion."

Interesting to note that back in 2012, President Mohammed Morsi vowed to deal with "moral" vigilantism", and denied the existence of any morality police, even though there have been several incidents of vigilantism.

There is no 'Committee for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice' in Egypt as has been rumoured of late, Yasser Ali, acting spokesman for Egypt's newly-inaugurated President Mohamed Morsi, said on Wednesday.

"It's not true that there is such a committee; the incidents that have happened of late were all instigated by individuals and investigations are still underway," he said.

I can't imagine Al-Ashri would have set up his CPVP without Morsi's approval. I hope the Egyptian people continue to take a stand before it's too late.

Sadly, not unexpected.

Egyptian Salafist Says He Wants War With Israel, Christianity Doesn't Exist and is 9/11 Truther

Hisham Al-Ashri, Muslim Brotherhood turned Salafist and founder of the uber conservative religious group 'Commission for the Promotion of  Virtue and Prevention of Vice' in Egypt, is making waves again. This is the same man who said he would wait outside Coptic Christian Churches during their Christmas celebrations to convert them to Islam, and demanded that all Coptic women wear the veil. The same group that tried to cut the tongue off the brother of a shopkeeper- for insulting Islam- after he came to aid the shopkeeper who was being attacked for telling a "bearded man" he couldn't just barge in to use the toilet.

Al-Ashri, you see, believes that there is no such thing as Christianity. In an interview on Al-Tahrir TV he tells the host there is no such thing as Christianity, that "Jesus came to prophesy monotheism," and that Islam "is the true religion," and Muslims will be the only ones to enter paradise. He then goes on to say, "out of love for Christians, I call upon them to enter paradise with me."

Thanks but no thanks.

In the interview he also talks about how waging an official war with Israel is his life's dream, but only if it's government sanctioned.

And last but not least, Al-Ashri is a 9/11 Truther. Thanks to all the many fools out there who believe jihadists had nothing to do with the blowing up of the twin towers, Al-Ashri is conveniently promoting those theories as well:

The host has asked him about jihad and did the attack on 9/11 constitute jihad.  Al-Ashri responds:

"It depends on who did it. Jihad is only for Muslims.  They even say jihad in English, because they have no equivalent.  I call on everybody to type in google "jihad" and then click.  You will get an incredible amount of videos, documents and documentaries made by Americans, not Muslims, Arabs or people of Arab origin, proving that Islamists had nothing to do with 9/11, unless they were targeted."

Watch the interview on the Memri TV video here.