CAIRO: A senior Islamic cleric is taking a writer and a culture magazine editor to court for offending Islam after writing a poem comparing God to a traffic policeman, a judicial source said Sunday.
Sheikh Yussef Al-Badri, of the government Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, together with 18 other plaintiffs, is suing poet Helmy Salem and Ahmed Higazi, the editor in chief of the culture publication Al-Ibdaa, for blasphemy and offending the divine being.
The plaintiffs complained of the insolence of the writer to portray God as a traffic policeman.
