Al Azhar completes drafting anti-hate crime and violence legislation

A committee from Al Azhar has completed its first draft of an anti-hate crime and violence legislation and is discussing it before presenting the bill to the Supreme Council of Al Azhar Scholars and the House of Representatives, Al Borsa reports. The bill takes aim at religious discourse that promotes violence and hatred. As we noted yesterday, MP Mohamed Abu Hamed of the Support Egypt Coalition is also working on an anti-hate crime bill, but his version of the legislation is meant to replace the religious contempt clauses in the criminal code.