The Rotarian Conspiracy
• Islamic
From an interesting article about Muslim’s paranoid perceptions of Rotary Clubs:
Dark references to the Rotarian conspiracy against Islam can be found in Turkey’s Islamist paper Vakit; Egypt’s weekly Aqidati and the government daily Al-Ahram; the Palestinian paper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida; and even Saudi high-school textbooks (“Rotary [is] among the destructive organizations that were most dangerous to Islam and the Muslims”). In the 1970s, Egypt’s highest religious official, the Shaikh of al-Azhar (an Islamic institution comprising a mosque and a university), reportedly issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims to join Rotary clubs.