Egypt purging Brotherhood from Ministry of Endowments

Egypt's Ministry of Religious Endowments has banished from the pulpit imams it says are members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Birds are silhouetted as they fly during sunset over a minaret of a mosque on Mawlid al-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in the old Islamic area of Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 19, 2018. - REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Ahmed Youness
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CAIRO — The Egyptian Ministry of Endowments is continuing its campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood by dismissing 10 more imams, and the regime has similar plans for civil servants.

The ministry on Nov. 21 said the imams can no longer deliver sermons from pulpits because they are affiliated with the outlawed Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.

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