The attack on Dr.

Hassan Hanafy seems to have subsided. The Azhar Scholars Front continues

to denounce Dr. Hanafy, but they

will not bring him to court, perhaps because of the strong opposition they have

met from Dr. Abdel Mo’ti

Bayoumi and Dr. Mohammed Sa’id Tantawi, Sheikh of the Azhar.

Nevertheless, the issue will resurface.

Dr. El-Bery, president of the front has assured the public that the first

aim of the front is to concentrate

on publishing the ’mistakes’ of the man in public, because many

heresies and bad habits "are raised from

time to time by the agents of Christianity, atheism and extremism."