Cairo — The tug of the ideological war between the Salafis and the Ministry of Religious Endowments and Affairs (al-Awqaf) has been reignited once again. On a number of satellite channels, Sheikh Jabir Tayi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Awqaf, went on to bitterly criticize Salafi leader and preacher Dr. Yasser Borhami, deputy leader of Al-Da‘waa Al-Salafiyyai, (a Salafist movement that spawned Al-Nour Party in 2011), owing to his previous fatwas in which he oddly ruled that sending congratulations to Coptic Christians on their holidays is Haram i.e. forbidden. Tayi issue an ultimatum to de-license Borhami from preaching if he would persist in making or promoting such odd fatwas. Considering this as a threat, Borhami's supporters have waged fierce attacks on Tayi, denouncing his pressures on Borhami and his discrimination against all the Salafis preachers in general. They even demanded that Dr. Mokhtar Juma, Minister of al-Awqaf, should intervene to put an end for Tayi's discrimination against them and constantly stifling their voices.
