Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 14, 2004
Pope Shenouda III called for the necessity of reinterpreting some of the verses of the Qur’an and the Holy Bible that deal with procreation. He said that he had raised the awareness of preachers and priests that the number of children one breeds is not the gist of the matter. Dr. Muhammad Hamdi...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 21, 2004
The Supreme State Security Court in Cairo is due to hear the case of the Islamic Liberation Party [Hizb al-Tahrir] on the 25th of this month. Three British citizens are among the suspects in this case. The Liberation Party resumed its activities after the end of fundamentalist activities due to two...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 20, 2004
Arabs and Muslims, particularly in Spain and generally in Europe, now fear a rising wave of racial discrimination against them, and also that they will be confused with terrorists. This comes amid the investigations of the Madrid attacks, based on the assumption that Al-Qa’eda is involved in the...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 20, 2004
A quick review of current events suggests that what happened in the United States following the September 11, 2001 attacks will happen again in Europe following the March 11, 2004 train explosions. As Arabs and Muslims we need to make them hear our cry—that we also suffer from terrorism and that...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 20, 2004
The British police announced that two unidentified people destroyed parts of forty Islamic graves in London. The police said that the stones were destroyed and the drawings were erased from the walls of the Charlton graves southeast of the British Capital.
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 20, 2004
Islamic Britons expressed their shock yesterday after the sanctity of an Islamic grave was violated in London, an assault believed to have links to last week’s Madrid bombings. Iqbal Sakarany, the secretary general of the Islamic Council, criticized the media for using the term “Muslim terrorists”...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 21, 2004
The United Organization for Research and Studies in Washington organized a meeting between Edward Miller [name is transliterated, no information available online], an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and lawyer in New York, and a number of Muslim leaders in the Washington area. Miller is leading a campaign to...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 1, 2004
President Hosni Mubarak has decided to grant a retrial to the leader of Tala’e Al-Fateh Al-Islamy [vanguards of Islamic conquest], Ahmad Hussein Agiza, and revoke a ruling issued by the Higher Military Court that sentenced him to life imprisonment with hard labor. Mubarak’s decision caused...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 31, 2004
In a meeting yesterday with the members of the Rotary Egypt clubs, Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, Egyptian Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments], denied any incidence of foreign orders to renew the religious discourse. He confirmed that renewing the religious discourse is an genuine Islamic cause.
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 27, 2004
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark inaugurated a number of churches and consecrated monks in Luxor, Sohag and Qena during his tour in Upper Egypt that will continue until Monday. The Pope met with Copts of Upper Egypt and with Christian and...