Inspired by Tunisian Muhammad Bu‘Āzīzī, who burned himself and thereby triggered the Tunisian “Jasmine Revolt,” several Egyptians have set themselves ablaze during the last week.

“Egypt has not witnessed this phenomenon before, and never saw murder and killings like now,” said Shaykh Salāh ‘Abū Nasr, Imām of the al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Like numerous other Egyptian clerics, he condemns the self-immolations as being un-Islamic.