Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 9, 2004
The article is an interview with Egyptian Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Kamel Bahaa Eddin. The interview discusses a number of issues such as whether the U.S. interfered in [Egypt’s] educational curricula, whether religious extremist factions have succeeded in penetrating the teaching ranks,...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2004
Women preachers go onto the metro and say loud do’aa [prayers] and ask women on board to repeat after them. Now, the phenomenon has developed. Now women preachers are giving religious lessons in the metro. • See article 4: Renewal of religious discourse has not been successful for the last 1500...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 19, 2004
A participant in one of the seminars held in the Ibn Khaldoun Center under the title "Renewing the religious discourse." said that Islamic thought needed another Luther " like the prophet." A member of the Center declared that he refuses religiousness based on the sayings of Prophet Muhammad,...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 26, 2004
The prominent television preacher has been hiding for more than three months. He reappeared in Al-Sayd Sports Club to start practicing his hobbies once again. He feels that people have not believed what happened [that he had lured a monaqaba women into cohabitating with him]. The crime committed...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 29, 2004
In an address read by Prime Minister Atef Ebeid on behalf of the president at the Sixteenth conference of the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs, President Mubarak urged the necessity of “eliminating the distorted images each party has of the other.” The conference was inaugurated in Cairo...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 20, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center is nowadays spreading its opinions through a series of seminars it organized under the title “Renewing Religious Discourse.” The center puts forward suspicious ideas declaring that the Islamic thought needs to be reformed because it is not based on a valid logic. Al-Liwaa’...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 3, 2004
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Sayyed Tantawi, rejected any interference in the affairs of Muslims under the guise of calls for change and reform. He announced that no one interferes in Al-Azhar’s affairs, including the President or any other authority in the country. He also stressed that...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 4, 2004
In his address at the opening ceremony for the Conference of Islamic Dialogue in Qatar, the Azhar sheikh Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, confirmed that religious freedom is an essential part of the Islamic shari’a, and that force and belief are two contradictory notions.
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 3, 2004
Participants in the Islamic-Christian Dialogue Conference in Doha did not reach a conclusion concerning the topics discussed in the course of the conference. The discussion focused on the issue of mutual recognition between Islam and Christianity, and on whether representatives of the Jewish faith...
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 7, 2004
The first Egyptian Islamic caravan left Cairo yesterday to hold meetings with British organizations on an eight-day tour to correct mistaken ideas about Islam.