{"id":9538,"date":"2016-08-01T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T09:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/egypt-controversy-in-parliament-over-removal-of-religion-from-id-cards\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2017-07-26T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T17:12:10","slug":"egypt-controversy-in-parliament-over-removal-of-religion-from-id-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/egypt-controversy-in-parliament-over-removal-of-religion-from-id-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Controversy in parliament over removal of religion from ID cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion in parliament has split over a Citizenship bill presented by MP Alaa Abdel Moneim containing an article abolishing the listing of citizens&rsquo; religion on national ID cards, to be discussed next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Parliamentary sources said that Ossama al-Abd, former head of Al-Azhar University and current Chairman of the House of Representatives&rsquo; Religious Affairs Committee, told a number of MPs he would reject the bill in objection to that particular article.<\/p>\n<p>Salafi-oriented Nour Party MPs also rejected the bill, saying it would be a move towards a secular state and infringe on the vision of a state run on the principles of Islamic Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Abd reiterated resistance to the controversial article, arguing that it could lead to complications and mix-ups, such as the burial of Muslims in Christians&rsquo; burial grounds and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/news\/controversy-parliament-over-removal-religion-id-cards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Egypt Independent website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opinion in parliament has split over a Citizenship bill presented by MP Alaa Abdel Moneim containing an article abolishing the listing of citizens&rsquo; religion on national ID cards, to be discussed next Saturday. Parliamentary sources said that Ossama al-Abd, former head of Al-Azhar University and current Chairman of the House of Representatives&rsquo; Religious Affairs Committee, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-egypte","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-395","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports","item-theme-discrimination-fr","item-theme-ethnique-raciale-religieuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13748,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions\/13748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}