Egypt arrests religious influencer who sponsored paid ‘proxy pilgrimage’
Egyptian authorities arrested a social media influencer on Tuesday who has promoted an application that charges users for Umrah by proxy, according to a lawyer who lodged a complaint against the self-styled preacher. The lawyer, Hani Sameh, said he lodged a complaint with the public prosecutor accusing the pharmacist and influencer Amir Mounir of "committing crimes of receiving money, donations and Islamic preaching without a licence from the Ministry of Endowments". In Islam, Umrah is a voluntary pilgrimage, […]
