This guy is really amusing. He keeps on getting into trouble with both sides. Check this out.
Cairo: A top cleric has drawn fire from journalists for demanding that rumour-mongers be flogged 80 times in compliance with the Sharia.
Mohammad Saeed Tantawi, Grand Shaikh of Al Azhar, made the suggestion during a recent function attended by President Hosni Mubarak.
Tantawi's fatwa would have passed unnoticed had it not been made a few weeks after two journalists were prosecuted on charges of publishing "false reports" about Mubarak's health.
Ebrahim Eisa, editor of the independent newspaper Adestour, and Mohammad Al Saeed Saeed, editor of the independent daily Al Badil, will soon go on trial. The false reports about Mubarak's health have allegedly harmed the country's economy.
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