The recent terror incident in France provokes much thought and many important ideas. On the one hand, those who committed this crime were born and have lived in France. In its schools they received an education; therefore no one can attribute this atrocity to poverty, ignorance or lack of democracy. On the other hand, this incident has revealed that some of these terrorists are of Algerian origin and have received their religious lessons in the Islamic institute in Paris. It is well-known that these Islamic institutes are controlled by Islamist political movements. They are also constant destinations for visits by scions of the Wahaby movement and Salafi schoolteachers. These people do advocate hatred of the Western community and its secularist life style. It is clear, that attributing extremism to poverty and ignorance alone has made us overlook the main causes. We have deliberately ignored the real reason out of fear of a confrontation of religious discourse, and the revelation of its corruption. We should not forget that one of the masters of terrorism in our modern era was Osama Bin Laden. He was one of the world's very rich people. With Ossama was the grand professor of terror, Ayman Al Zawahry, an Egyptian physician and a member of one of the largest Egyptian families. One may elaborate endlessly about engineer Khayrat Al Shater, the multi-millionaire of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Youssif Nada, who owns multinational banks and several multinational companies. There is also the group of university professors, such as Mohamed Morsi, Mahmoud Ezzat, Mohamed Badie, Mahmoud Ghozlan, Rashad Al Bayoumi and others. It is worthy of note, also, that the Muslim Brotherhood is the largest group with the highest diversified number of university graduates in the whole world. When you consider other political Islamist groups, you find that they belong to the wealthiest sector of society. One example is the Liberation Party in Jordan and diaspora countries that includes top business people. The association of Adl and Ihsan in Morocco has among its members the richest members of the Moroccan community. And the Salafi and Wahabi movements are the world's largest money reservoirs. Now is the time to take a look at the religious discourse as it is definitely standing firmly behind all our present ordeals. That is why President Al Sisi's word, at the celebration of Mouled Al Nabi was both comprehensive and preventive. He called for a religious revolution; one that can correct defective doctrine. We are in need of a religious revolution that will rid us of all those texts wrongly thought of as holy only because they are mentioned in books we have inherited. In reality these texts are made by Satan and his subordinates. It is unacceptable, for example, that horrific fatwas keep frequently popping up to stir the mills of war. We also need to know that the French Muslim youths who committed the abhorrent crime against the satirical magazine, did so driven by religious fatwas originating from religious establishments. Sheikh Samy Al Sirsawy is a member of the Al Azhar Fatwa committee, and he issued a fatwa recently that whosoever abuses the Prophet Mohamed (pbuh), should be killed, wherever he is, no permission needed from anyone. He also told the youth that he had issued a fatwa allowing the murder of anyone who collaborates in trespassing against Prophet. He went on to inquire about the whereabouts of Islamic youth who should kill those who insulted the Prophet. Another one, who called himself Al Howiny issued a fatwa that whoever abuses the prophet must be killed, even if he expresses remorse, and regrets his action. Al Azhar professors and Salafi advocates have copied the fatwas of Ibn Taymia that stated that whosoever insults God or His Prophet has committed an act of disbelief whether publicly, or not. This remains the belief of the Fokahaa (fatwa scholars) and the rest of the Sunnis who declare that faith is word and action, therefore whoever does anything like that should be killed. So if these are the fatwas that have been issued, and this is the nature of national religious discourse, then should the youth who follow these and think of them as religion itself, be blamed? Shouldn't we rather put all the blame on the vendors of this extremist discourse?
