Push to remove Quran from Egyptian textbooks faces backlash

Indonesian Muslim students read from the religious academic books in an Islamic course at Al-Azhar mosque in the old city of Cairo on December 4, 2011. Al-Azhar mosque, which was developed into one of the oldest Islamic universities, pays special attention to the Koranic sciences and traditions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed and all the modern fields of science. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

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A photo taken on June 24, 2019 shows a stack of books as part of the collection of the "History of Damascus" summary volumes by the medieval Sunni Muslim scholar Ibn Asakir, on a shelf in the main building of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina library in Egypt's northern coastal city of Alexandria. - The Bibliotheca, established in 2002, serves as a modern-day commemoration of the Library of Alexandria of antiquity, and a modern-day public library and educational centre. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Ph

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Push to remove Quran from Egyptian textbooks faces backlash

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