{"id":1334,"date":"2014-12-31T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2014-12-31T06:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T06:32:37","slug":"egypts-turn-to-be-tone-deaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2014\/12\/31\/egypts-turn-to-be-tone-deaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt’s Turn to be Tone Deaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, the Administrative Court of Alexandria, Egypt, banned a festival held each year for decades in honor of a Moroccan rabbi.<\/p>\n

According to the report<\/a> in WorldPost<\/em>, “local residents…objected to the mingling of men and women and the consumption of alcohol at the festival, and claimed that strict security measures applied during the festival negatively affected their normal daily life”.<\/p>\n

That the attendees were Jews from Mediterranean countries certainly wasn’t a factor, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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