Egypt campaigns against atheism
The Egyptian government begins a new program to combat the rise of atheism; however, activists question whether this increase is even real.
CAIRO — The Ministry of Awqaf (religious endowment), in partnership with the Ministry of Sports and Youth in Egypt, has begun a national campaign to fight the presumed spread of atheism among youth.
Thus, those state departments decided to break into the world of atheists without having the slightest information that would allow them to control this phenomenon in any possible way.
Both Sheikh Ahmad Turk, director of mosques at the Ministry of Awqaf and in charge of the campaign against atheism, and Nuamat Sati, who is in charge of the campaign at the Ministry of Youth, told Al-Monitor that the spread of the phenomenon of atheism, specifically among youth, is what pushed the ministries to undertake this campaign today.
When asked about the availability of statistics showing the increasing spread of this phenomenon, Sati said, “There are no statistics, which means that the size of the phenomenon was never known nor is it known today, so there is no absolute evidence of its spread.”
