marry an israeli... lose your citizenship.

catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
edited June 2010 in A Moving Train
talk about fucked up.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37529923/ns ... tn_africa/


By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF

updated 3:30 p.m. ET June 5, 2010
CAIRO - An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld a ruling that orders the country's Interior Ministry to strip the citizenship from Egyptians married to Israeli women.

The case underlines the deep animosity many Egyptians still hold toward Israelis, despite a peace treaty signed between the two countries 31 years ago.

The Supreme Administrative Court's decision also scores a point for Egyptian hard-liners who have long resisted any improvement in ties with Israel since the signing of the 1979 peace treaty.

In upholding last year's lower court ruling, the appeals court said Saturday that the Interior Ministry should present each marriage case to the Cabinet on an individual basis. The Cabinet will then rule on whether to strip the Egyptian of his citizenship.

The court also said officials should take into consideration whether a man married an Israeli Arab or a Jew when making its decision to revoke citizenship.

Saturday's decision, which cannot be appealed, comes more than year after a lower court ruled that the Interior Ministry, which deals with citizenship documents, must implement the 1976 article of the citizenship law. That bill revokes citizenship of Egyptians who married Israelis who have served in the army or embrace Zionism as an ideology. The Interior Ministry appealed that ruling.

The lawyer who brought the original suit to court, Nabih el-Wahsh, celebrated Saturday's ruling, saying it "is aimed at protecting Egyptian youth and Egypt's national security."

The government has not released figures of Egyptians married to Israeli women, but some estimates put the number around 30,000.

Israeli officials said they had no comment on Saturday's ruling.

In 2005, former Grand Mufti Nasr Farid Wasel issued a religious edict, or fatwa, saying Muslim Egyptians may not marry Israeli nationals, "whether Arab, Muslim, or Christian." The possibility of a Jewish spouse was not mentioned.

Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the late Grand Sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's premier institution and oldest university, has said that while marriage between an Egyptian man and an Israeli woman is not religiously forbidden, the government has the right to strip the man of his citizenship for marrying a woman from "an enemy state."

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Comments

  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    and you thought it was bad here :lol:
    just joking with you Cate.

    Godfather.
  • eric75surferic75surf Posts: 12
    "can't defend fucked up men" alot of arab government members (not all) are fucked up men...the quote was taken from given to fly
    E. Pressman
  • rebornFixerrebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    "Enemy state" ... Apparently peace treaties mean nothing. There are some goofy, backward ideas still at work in the Middle East.
  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    "Enemy state" ... Apparently peace treaties mean nothing. There are some goofy, backward ideas still at work in the Middle East.


    said the turk to the israeli

    ba dum bump
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    "Enemy state" ... Apparently peace treaties mean nothing. There are some goofy, backward ideas still at work in the Middle East.

    You mean all over the world.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I'd prefer to see them simply open the Rafah crossing than engage in pointless racist bullshit.
  • rebornFixerrebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    badbrains wrote:
    "Enemy state" ... Apparently peace treaties mean nothing. There are some goofy, backward ideas still at work in the Middle East.

    You mean all over the world.

    True.
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