Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
On Sunday, May 8, 2011, the Egyptian government issued a warning against anyone causing sectarian conflicts. Minister of Justice Muhammad Abd al-‘Azīz al-Jindī announced that individuals who have been found guilty of triggering sectarian clashes will be punished by death.
The government thereby...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
AWR's Managing Director, Mr. Hānī Labīb, obtained these statements by the Egyptians Against Discrimination movement, condemning the Imbābah incidents and the continuous conciliatory sessions, always resorted to in dealing with sectarian crisis.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 7, 2011
The Christian channel al-Hayāh which is broadcasted from the U.S. announced that Kāmīliyā Shihātah and her husband will appear on a TV show shot outside Egypt.
Neither the Coptic Church nor Kāmīliyā Shihātah’s lawyer knew about the interview.
Shihātah's lawyer said he has lost contact with her and...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
On Saturday, May 7, 2011, Muslims and Christians clashed over the alleged conversion of a Christian woman. At least five people were killed in the sectarian conflict taking place in front of the Saint Mina Church in Imbābah district, Giza.
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Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 5, 2011
The lawyer representing Kāmīliyā Shihātah, who is rumored to be detained by the church for converting to Islam, said his client was still a Christian and was never detained by the church.
On the contrary, he said, Shihātah lived quietly with her husband and son at a location he did not want to...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 7, 2011
The Ministry of Awqāf managed to take back al-Nūr mosque pulpit after the salafī movement snatched it away during the past Fridays.
After Friday prayers clashes had erupted between security forces and the military on one hand and the salafists on the other.
[Reviewer's Note: News story was also...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 7, 2011
A march of thousands of people started from al-Nūr mosque to the U.S. embassy in Cairo/Egypt condemning the death of al-Qā'idah leader Usāmah Bin Lādin.
Shaykh Hāfiz Salāmah, the leader of the protesters, went to the embassy first by car and did not participate in the march because of his old age...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 6, 2011
Hundreds of salafists, including dozens of fully-veiled women, protested outside the Azhar offices in northern Cairo, urging the Muftī, a senior Muslim cleric in Egypt who issues religious edicts, to backtrack on his view on the head-to-toe veil.
The protesters raised banners that went further...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 7, 2011
Around 300 Islamists rallied in anger in Cairo on May 6, 2011 over the killing of al-Qā'idah leader Usāmah Bin Lādin by US forces in Pakistan.
The demonstrators were watched on by police as they gathered around a salafist mosque and unfurled a banner bearing a picture of Bin Lādin that declared he...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
Khālid al-Islāmbūlī, a nephew of Khālid al-Islāmbūlī, a top convict in the murder of late President Anwar al-Sadāt, arrived in Cairo on May 7, 2011.
He came from Iran through Turkey after a 23 years of absence. He and his family were not banned form entering Egypt, even during the time of the...