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Egyptian Salafist under Fire for Meeting with Israelis
(Ynet News) Roi Kais - Dr. Omar Salem, an Egyptian-American religious scholar, invited three Jewish scholars to Egypt as part of efforts to hold an interfaith dialogue. They met with Salafi leader Dr. Jiah a-Shimi, a high-ranking official in the a-Noor party, last month in a meeting which caused an uproar in the Salafi movement. The party is conducting an internal investigation regarding the event and issued a statement saying, "(the party) is against any form of normalization with this [Zionist] entity, and is against meeting with any person who represents or is connected to it." A-Shimi said, "I agreed to meet with them once I understood that they live in the U.S. and that they have no connection to Israel. The goal of the meeting was to show the tolerance of the Islamic religion."