The approval by the US House of Representative of the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act sparked controversy in the US and Egypt while the US administration sees that the bill is posing difficulties for it with strategically important states.
[Editor in April 2002: This response was written for the RNSAW and at the same time offered for publication to an Egyptian publication. We can no longer trace in our archive which publication this was] Dr. Yehia Ismael Halboush claimed that Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi judges by double standards as he...