I received an email from my friend Abu Khawla, coordinator of the Lafif Lakhdar International Defense Committee (Lakhdar is a Tunisian secularist and reformist who got a death fatwa by London-based imams). Below, I am reporting Khawla’s email as I received it.

Hi friends

I’m forwarding you a message I received from Professor Ikbal Gharbi-Zeitouna University in Tunis. It’s about the dramatic fate of a student of Al-Azhar University in Egypt. He was sacked for just writing an artic;le (in www.rezgar.com) entitled “Against the racist separation between boys and girls” shut down Al-Azhar”

In his call (in Arabic, following Prof Gharbi message, below), the student Abdelkarim Nabeel Sulayman concluded” I was forced to join from my early age the Al-Azhar jail, but I wouldn’t let them jail my thoughts”

Please help disseminate the information to Arabic READERS YOU MAY KNOW. You can also write in English a message of support to the victim.

SINCERELY,

ABU kHAWLA

Our arab readers can read the article here

To contact Abu Khawla in order to receive the latest updates in the fight to save the life of Lafif Lakhdar: llidcÉhotmail.com