Reuters took note of the move by Al Azhar to set up shop at a kiosk in one of Cairo Metro’s stations, noting criticism by parliamentarian Mohamed Abu Hamed, who says “I will not respect what they are doing in this domain until they practically do what is demanded of them, which is the ... revision of the context (of religious discourse). That is the core problem.” Abu Hamed is accusing Al Azhar clerics of failing to modernise their religious discourse to counter militant ideologies.

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