INTRODUCTION:

1- According to the piece of news written in the Egyptian independent opposition newspaper ''Al-Masry Al-Yom'' on 29^th of November, 2012, the Egyptian State Security Court sentenced seven defendants to receive the capital punishment, in absentia, within the case concerning the movie shot and produced by them with the intention to insult Prophet Muhammad. The names of those seven persons sentenced to death in absentia are as follows: Morris Sadek, Morcos Aziz Khalil, Esmat Zaqalama, Nabeel Adeeb Bisada Moussa, Elia Basseley, Nahed Mahmoud Metwalli, and Nader Fareed Fawzy Nicola. To these names, the name of the American anti-Islam pastor Terry Jones was added. This court sentence was issued by the head-judge of the court, Seif-Al-Nasr Suleiman, along with two judges named M. Amer Gadou and Hassan Ismail Hassan, in the presence of Khaled Diaa, the head of the Higher Egyptian State Security Police, and its secretary Adel Abdel-Hameed. According to the newspaper, once the court sentence was pronounced, lawyers and those present hailed and shouted in joy religious slogans such as ''Allahu Akbar!'' and ''Alhamdulillah!'' (i.e., ''God is the Greatest'' and ''Praised be the Lord'', respectively). This scandal is unprecedented in the history of Egyptian courts; namely, the defense lawyers allied themselves with the police against the absent defendants. Moreover, it is unprecedented in the history of Egyptian courts to sentence defendants to death in absentia in accordance to the law concerning the so-called ''contempt of religion''. This is a bad, corrupt law that violates human rights, but its stipulated punishment is imprisonment for one up to five years, and NOT the capital punishment at all, as per the current Egyptian law system. The International Quranic Center (IQC), based in Springfield, VA, USA, has issued a statement to condemn sentencing to death those who have insulted Prophet Muhammad in a movie, as this sentence contradicts the Quranic sharia of Islam, as understood by the intellectual trend of Quranism and as adopted and believed by all Quranists all over the globe. This IQC statement has been followed by a number of articles that explains how this court sentence goes against Islam and its real sharia, the Quran alone. We have compiled such series of articles into this book you are reading now.

Signature:

Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour

Springfield, VA, USA

8^th of November 2016