Demonstrations in front of the American Embassy in Cairo

[Samoray 165]

Islamic groups to protest Thursday in front of the U.S. Embassy for the release of Omar Abdel Rahman

Quoting from an Egyptian newspaper

leaders and members of Islamic movements in Egypt, with the participation of leaders of "Muslim Brotherhood" are holding a demonstration in front of U.S. Embassy in Garden City, to demand the administration of President Barack Obama to release Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the spiritual leader of the jihadists in Egypt, imprisoned in the united states since the mid-nineties on charges of incitement to carry out bombings of Oklahoma in 1993.

Abdul Rahman the son of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman's said "The call for organizing the rally came after the U.S. administration and its embassy in Cairo ignored to respond to the demands and multiple appeals made ​​by the family to end the imprisonment of the blind sheikh in U.S. custody, especially as he is suffering chronic diseases and serious illness in his liver ."

He added that Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb Sheikh Al-Azhar issued a statement demanding that the U.S. administration to release Sheikh Omar, who was a professor at the Faculty of Theology, and he expressed his displeasure and expressed his sadness strongly when he learned of what is happening to one of Al-Azhar scholars especially stripped of his clothes and forced to wash his clothes in prison.

Abdel-Rahman assured that his family will continue calling Qatar, and Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Chief of the Muslim Scholars, to resume mediation efforts, which began in the reign of former U.S. President George W. Bush, to persuade the U.S. administration for the release of the blind sheikh as a gesture by the Obama administration to prove its good will towards the Muslim world.

He said the son of the spiritual leader of the jihadists in Egypt that the release of his father Sheikh, who was very popular in Egypt and the Islamic world would be appreciated by the overwhelming masses of Muslims resentful of American racism towards everything that is relevant to Islam and Muslims.

And Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (73 years), joined the Faculty of Theology in Cairo, where he studied until he graduated in 1965 with highest grades and was appointed in the Ministry of Awqaf as imam of a mosque in a village in Fayoum, and then got his Master Degree then received a doctorate (P.H.D) from the University of Al-Azhar, he also worked as a teacher in the Faculty of Theology and professor at the same Faculty.

in 1969 he was suspended from work at the college , and later that year was back to work, but he was transferred from his position as a professor to do office work at the same university, but the Egyptian authorities continued to harass him, until he was arrested on 10/13/1970 after the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in September 1970.

in the summer of 1973 he was released and was called by the university and was hired again at the Faculty of Theology, and worked there for four years until 1977, then worked at Riyadh university until 1980, then returned to Egypt.

In September 1981 he was arrested by a direct order from President Anwar Sadat, then he escaped from prison, until he was arrested in October 1981 and was accused of the assassination of Sadat before a Military Court and the Supreme State Security Court, and was found innocent in the two cases, and was released from prison in 2/10/1984.

due to the his harassment by the security forces in Egypt, he was forced to travel to the United States to reside in the state of New Jersey, he was charged for incitement to carry out Oklahoma bombings in 1993, and in 1995 was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Couldn't find any English news website for a source so i thought i will translate it

The Arabic website i found it on http://ehaborabi5.bl...-post_3265.html

The Warden message of the US embassy in Cairo http://egypt.usembas...v/wm042011.html

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I'm curious to see what the relations between the US and Egypt are going to be like a year or two down the road. Time fly's and a year goes by quick.