Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 18, 2003
General director of the Benevolent Construction Association in Riyadh said that the entire village of Gradwa in Guinea embraced Islam at the hands of a group of missionaries following the association.
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2003
Undocumented stories [rumors] spread in the African Kingdom of Swaziland saying the king is about to embrace Islam. A [vague] source said that the king believes there is a Western conspiracy to overthrow him and he feels that Arabs are his real friends.
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 1, 2003
For the fifth and last time, Saad Eddin Ibrahim will appear before the Court of Appeal. The court will either convict him for the third time or declare him innocent from the accusations leveled against him.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 29, 2003
American Martha Elite Jones came to Egypt with her husband to convert to Islam. She read a lot about Islam but the anti-Islamic campaigns caused her confusion. At the end she was convinced that Islam is the right religion.
See also art. 23
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 23, 2003
Jordanian authorities arrested three journalists because of publishing an article allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad and his wives. The court decided to close the paper for which they work. Al-Amal Al-Islami Front accused them of apostasy.
See also art. 9 in this issue.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 26, 2005
The Denmark Queen, Margrethe II, said that Islam is representing a menace, locally and internationally, because of extremist Muslims, as she described, and asked its government not to show tolerance towards them. A similar statement was mentioned in her autobiography.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 17, 2003
Dr. Gunter Mulack, Commissioner for the Dialogue with the Islamic World of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, praised Egypt’s record in tolerance and intellectual creativity. He admitted that fundamentalism is an international phenomenon and is not limited to the Islamic world.
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 11, 2004
The media secretariats in the NDP’s branches in the governorates started discussing the working paper that concerns the development of the religious discourse.
The religious discourse that we need should play a central role in forming our religious conscience, which cannot develop without the...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 7, 2004
The head of Journalists’ Syndicate, Galal Aref, confirmed to Al-Arabi that the syndicate would not allow anyone to change it into a battlefield for partisan fights. He said that the syndicate is independent and is keen on defending national causes. He responded to the Minister of Interior, who said...
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 27, 2004
The Journalists’ Syndicate confirmed that it did not host the conference that was organized by the supreme guide of the banned Muslim Brotherhood in one of its halls. The syndicate explained that someone rented one of the syndicate halls without explaining that the hall would be used to hold a...