Egyptian Salafi MP Mamdouh Ismail Causes Stir by Calling to Prayer in Mid Session | |
Following are excerpts of Salafi Egyptian MP Mamdouh Ismail calling to prayer in a parliamentary session and rebuked by Speaker of the House, which aired on Sawt Al-Sha'b TV on February 7, 2012:
Parliament speaker: I did not authorize you to do this. We have a mosque. You can call to prayer there.
Mamdouh Ismail: …I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah…
Parliament speaker: Mr. Mamdouh Ismail, when you finish calling to prayer, I will have to speak with you, because you have violated the protocol of this session.
Mamdouh Ismail: …come to prayer, come to success. Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar. There is no God but Allah.
Parliament speaker: MP Mahmdouh Ismail has violated the protocol of this session. He used the time given to him to call to prayer without asking my permission. There is a mosque where you can call to prayer. This hall is for talking. Don't you patronize us. You are no more Muslim than us. Prayer is no less important to us than it is to you.
Applause
Don't patronize us. I didn't permit you to speak again. If you want to pray, I won't stand in your way. Go ahead… Don't answer. This place is for discussion, not for calling to prayer.
Mamdouh Ismail: You listen to me…
Parliament speaker: This place is not for calling to prayer. If you want to call to prayer, excuse yourself…
Go and call to prayer at the mosque. This is not the hour of prayer. You are a respected lawyer. Do you need all this attention from the media?
Who are you addressing? All the MPs here want to pray. I did not permit you to speak again. Sit down! Sit down! I
did not permit you to speak again. Sit down! Do not disrupt this session, or else I will take action against you. No, this is not in the constitution.
Sit down, please. Don't disrupt this session. Are you more of a religious expert than all these people? Do not patronize your brothers in this parliament.
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One of the members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood decided to interrupt a session of parliament and try to issue the Muslim call to prayer. It did not go over well as it was not the appropriate time for prayer and he was reprimanded several times by the leader of the session. Will this be a tipping point in Egypt and a sign of things to come? The Brotherhood is already demanding the ‘caretaker of the cabinet’ get fired and replaced with a Brotherhood member. What is happening in the Middle East? Is this where the “Arab Spring” is going?
“Muslim Brotherhood. They changed their name to the Freedom and Justice Party. So he’s Muslim Brotherhood. So we know he’s an Islamic extremist. He stands up and he starts singing the call to prayer,” Glenn said.
“It’s out of order obviously. That’s when the guy says, please sit down, stop it, knock it off. He continues to sing. That’s when the chairperson really gets angry. Now, this is all on television.”
“This guy, the Muslim Brotherhood, is making a statement that this parliament is not Muslim enough. By doing this, he’s saying you guys are an enemy of Allah. It’s prayer time and we should be praying right now,” Glenn said.
At the end of the video when their equivalent of Speaker of the House chastises his disruption, many of the representatives applaud.
“I believe it will be the applause that will be their undoing. Because the extremists saw this,” Glenn said.
“This country is going to be torn apart by the extremists, torn apart. A strong man, it’s either going to be an Islamic republic, an Islamic Caliphate, or it will go back to a dictatorship.”
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