The following is a translation of an article that recently appeared in Al Youm:

The first judicial ruling to give the custody of a child to his mother’s family after she embraced the Baha’i faith.

By Siham Al Basha

Today, Department 12 at Al-Zananiri Court issued the first ruling to give the custody of a little child to his “mother’s aunt” because his parents embraced the Baha’i faith. Fayza Abdul Fattah Muhammad and her brother Muhammad Abdul Fattah Muhammad, the father of the mother’s child Maha Abdul Fattah Muhammad, raised a court case number 164 for the year 2007 to take the child into their custody for fear that he would embrace the Baha’i faith.

On the seventh day, Muhammad Abdul Fattah stated that when his daughter married Usama Sabri Muhammad, he did not know that her husband came from a Baha’i family. His personal identification card and all the identity cards of his family were marked with the Islamic faith. For that reason, the father agreed to the marriage of his daughter. He stated: “two years after my daughter’s marriage, I was surprised to discover that she had embraced the Bahai’i faith and that she had known that her husband was a Bahai’i prior to their marriage. Abdul Fattah clarified that he had been waiting for the court ruling to be issued so that he could follow his daughter who now lives in Australia.

One of the comments on this article, reads:

The worst court ruling in the history of the Egyptian judiciary!

Written by: an Egyptian thinker

Has racism and ignorance brought us to the extent of depriving a father and a mother of their son just because they are non-Muslims?

Will this judgment of depriving a child of his family through the power of the law achieve victory for Islam? Or will the Muslim pay the price because it tarnishes the reputation of Islam by labeling them as racists who do not respect the rights of others?

Do you know that if the father raises this case to court in Australia, the judge would sentence him to jail on the charge of religious discrimination, which is a crime punished by the Australian Constitution??!!

This ruling is useless in Australia and cannot be issued because it conflicts with the International Conventions of Human Rights, and because the age of inquisition courts has ended all over the world expect in our honorable Arab countries…

I hope that all the ignorant persons who praise this ruling and who claim to have faith when they are the evil of the earth, would think about the motive behind this ruling. What would be the use of taking a child from the arms of his parents in the name of Islam when they live in a foreign country? Dozens other similar rulings will not have any effect on them while they are there. This action would only tarnish the reputation of Islam. As if we dig everyday for a reason for the world to repel against Muslims and Islam.