In an unprecedented move, a number of intellectuals, journalists and writers, many of them journalists of Watani newspaper, submitted a memorandum to the Supreme Council of Press protesting what the prominent Muslim scholar Dr. Muhammad Emara writes in Al-Akhbar. Emara is accused of launching constant, well-planned attacks on Christianity. The signatories of the memorandum criticized Al-Akhbar for printing articles that attack the faith of Egyptian citizens.