If Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood candidate for president Mohammed Mursi (above) wins, Egypt's capital moves from Cairo to Jerusalem. So stated a leading Islamic leader, Safwat Hagazy, during a recent campaign rally as Mursi and MB head honcho Mohammed Badei looked on.
Outrageous? Fantastic? Not in Muslimworld. As crack Islamic law expert Stephen Coughlin pointed out to me today, the 2008 charter of the Organization of the Islamic conference similarly calls for OIC's "permanent headquarters" to be moved to Jerusalem after the city's "liberation."
Article 21 of the OIC Charter:
The Headquarters of the General
Secretariat shall be in the city of Jeddah until the liberation of the
city of Al Quds so that it will become the permanent Headquarters of the
Organisation.
Al Quds is the Islamic name for Jerusalem...Continue reading...Arab spring?
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