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Senior Egypt pro-government cleric escapes shooting

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Former Egyptian mufti Ali Gomaa
Cairo - Arab Today

Gunmen opened fire at former Egyptian mufti Ali Gomaa in a Cairo suburb on Friday, missing the pro-government cleric but wounding a bodyguard, the interior ministry said.

Gomaa was on his way to a mosque near his house in the October 6 suburb when the assailants hiding in a park started shooting fire, the ministry said.

His guards exchanged fire with the gunmen and forced them to flee, it said, adding that one of the guards was lightly wounded.

Gomaa later told Egyptian state television of how he had taken shelter behind a mosque wall when the shooting started.

After the attack, he "conducted the Friday prayers as a message to these people", the cleric said in a telephone interview.

"This attempt is a message aimed at creating fear," he said.

The private CBC Extra news channel showed footage of armed guards with pistols drawn escorting Gomaa out of the mosque after the shooting.

Gomaa was the mufti -- the government's official interpreter of Islamic law -- for a decade until 2013.

He strongly backed the army's overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi that year and the subsequent deadly crackdown on his supporters.

Since stepping down as mufti, Gomaa has remained one of the country's top Islamic scholars.

He is known for his moderate views on religion but reviled by the Islamist opposition for his support of the crackdown against them that has killed hundreds of protesters.

Source: AFP

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