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German critic of Islam missing in Egypt found safe

By REUTERS

NOVEMBER 27, 2013 17:03

CAIRO - An Egyptian-born German author and critic of Islam who went missing has turned up safe and well, a security source told Egypt's state news agency MENA.

Hamed Abdel-Samad, author of The Downfall of the Islamic World: A Prognosis, was reported missing by his brother this week, triggering speculation he might have been abducted after a cleric declared him an infidel and called for his death.

However, MENA said Abdel-Samad had returned to his hotel in Cairo without any injuries. It said he accused the owner of a plastics factory and an accomplice of kidnapping him over a financial dispute.

In a television show broadcast in June and posted on YouTube, the Egyptian cleric called for the killing of the author, who frequently appears in German media as a speaker on Islamic affairs, saying he was an infidel.

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