The Endowments Ministry is taking “precautionary measures” against atheism by stopping “extremist ideas” from spreading, Minister Mokhtar Gomaa told the House Religious Affairs Committee yesterday, Ahram Online reports. “Gomaa said his ministry’s strategy is based on fighting the spread of atheist and heretical ideas in media outlets and via online social-media networks like Facebook and Twitter.” Gomaa acquiesced that there are some atheists in Egypt, but denied that atheism “has become a phenomenon” in the country, saying that “Egyptians … are religious by nature.” The minister’s statements come after committee head Amr Hamroush submitted a formal inquiry into the government’s strategy to combat atheism, which he said is equally dangerous as terrorism, Al Shorouk reports. Someone please find something useful for this ministry to do, or replacing this ministry with a wheelchair bound mutant with telepathic abilities. It would be state funds well-saved.