Islam al-Behairy

Islam Behery
Islam Behery
إسلام بحيري
Personal details
Born	April 5, 1975 (age 46); Egypt Egypt
Nationality	Egyptian
Occupation	Writer, Television Host

Islam Behery (Arabic: إسلام بحيري), born 1974 in Siflaq, Sohag Governorate, is an Egyptian Muslim writer and the host of With Islam on Al-Kahera Wel Nas. On November 5, 2018 he began a new program, "Islam Hurr" on Alhurra.

In April 2015, Al-Behairy used his program to call for reforming Islam by insulting the well-known scholars of Islam and said that many fatwas were wrong and people shouldn’t take fatwas from scholars and should go straightly to Qur’an without even having to learn the knowledge required, a message Al-Azhar University condemned as an insult to Islam. Al Kahera suspended his program indefinitely.^[1] He was arrested, charged with insulting Islam, convicted, and sentenced to five years in prison. Al-Behairy appealed the sentence but a court rejected the appeal in October.^[2] However, in December, a court reduced his sentence to one year in jail,^[3]^[4] and he was later pardoned by the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.^[5]

References[]

^ "Controversial Islam al-Behairy program suspended". Al Masry Al Youm via Egypt Independent. April 23, 2015.
^ "Court rejects appeal filed by Islam Al-Behairy against 5-year sentence over blasphemy". El Balad. October 10, 2015. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
^ "Egypt jails Muslim scholar for insulting Islam". AFP via The Express Tribune. December 29, 2015.
^ "Egypt jails Muslim scholar for insulting Islam". Yahoo.com. December 29, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
^ "Egypt's clerics are resisting the president's call to renew Islam". The Economist. February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2017.

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[1] "Controversial Islam al-Behairy program suspended". Al Masry Al Youm via Egypt Independent. April 23, 2015.

[2] "Court rejects appeal filed by Islam Al-Behairy against 5-year sentence over blasphemy". El Balad. October 10, 2015. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2015.

[3] "Egypt jails Muslim scholar for insulting Islam". AFP via The Express Tribune. December 29, 2015.

[4] "Egypt jails Muslim scholar for insulting Islam". Yahoo.com. December 29, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2016.

[5] "Egypt's clerics are resisting the president's call to renew Islam". The Economist. February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2017.

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