Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 2, 2007
The religious state does not exist in Islām and talking about it will ignite sedition while the idea itself is an illusion and a fabrication.
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 4, 2007
An 11 year-old Muslim girl was ordered off the field by a referee during an indoor football tournament in the Canadian city of Laval after refusing to remove her veil.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 22, 2004
On June 17, 1981 violence erupted between Muslims and Christians in the Cairo working class district of al-Zawīya al-Hamrā? in which at least 20 people were killed and hundreds others injured, giving reason enough for late President Anwar al-Sādāt to launch the notorious September 1981 detentions...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 31, 2004
Some clerics - shaykhs and priests - have suddenly turned into experts in economics, sociology, chemistry and physics as well as politicians who advise people to follow their opinions through Fatāwá, the observance of which is obedience to God and their breach considered apostasy.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 15, 2004
The idea proposed by the Minster of Awqaf [Religious Endowment] Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq inspired wide-scale reactions among Muslim scholars and the public. Many conservative Muslims did not like the idea of unifying the Azan, likely because it is so radically different from what people are used...
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 22, 2004
The World Council of Churches, called on the Israeli government to ‘stop the building the separation wall on Palestinian occupied territory and retreat,” that is to remove the wall.
The council admitted “Israel’s legitimate security concerns,” but it pointed out that the separation fence hinders...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 19, 2004
Comment of a group of Egyptian NGOs on the establishment of the National Council for Human Rights. They write about a system of legislation that severely limits rights to the freedom of forming parties, publications and civil society.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 18, 2003
The article gives the text of an interview that Ali al-Atasi had with Dr. Nasr Hamid Abū Zeid and that was published on the internet. Abū Zeid explains his way of thinking and his research. The paper publishes this interview following the banning of Abū Zeid’s book ?Discourse and Interpretation,”...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 14, 2004
Following the death of the Brotherhood Supreme Guide Counselor Ma?moun al-Hudaiby, the outlawed group chose Muhammad Helal as an acting Supreme Guide. Six days later the Brotherhood decided on the name of its new Supreme Guide, ending all discussions and speculations on the conflict within the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 7, 2017
Egyptian newspapers gave considerable space to news about the rather sudden death of Counselor Ma?moun al-Hudaiby, the Supreme Guide of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, on 9 January 2004. al-Hudaiby, 83, who was named Supreme Guide of the Brotherhood on 27 November 2002, had always refused to...