And a wildly successful one indeed. No tiny minority of extremists here: the Islamic reformer Saad Eddin Ibrahim complains that 150,000 mosques in Egypt are against him. In the words of the Tunisian human rights activist Abu Khawla (Muhammad Bechri) in MEMRI, with thanks to Romy:
“The mosque (especially the Friday prayer sermon) is particularly used by Islamists to spread their message. [Egyptian progressive] Saadeddine Ibrahim recently lamented how he would face a propaganda machine that uses a network of 150,000 mosques in Egypt. In many countries, Fatwas issued by the Mullahs could be binding on social and political matters, and the religious authorities are granted wide powers for censorship of whatever they consider to be blasphemous….”