Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 25, 2004
The article reports about a
decision by the US Senate to offer $1 million to the Ibn Khaldoun Center headed by Dr. Saad Eddin
Ibrahim on an annual basis.
Well-informed sources made it clear that the funds will not be
cut from the annual aid given to Egypt, as has been reiterated already.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 24, 2004
The
article reports about the response of Tareq Ramadan, a Swiss Islamic intellectual and the
grandson of Hassan Al-Banna [the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt] to the decision of
someone of the municipality of district No. 12 in Paris for canceling the lease of a hall where
Ramadan...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 20, 2004
The article discusses the issue of national unity between Christians and Muslims in Egypt. The author cites the relation of love and intimate friendship between Pope Shenouda and the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Tantawi. Bibawi tells a story about Amr Bin Al-As who returned the head of the St. Mark...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 30, 2004
The article is an interview with one of the prominent
intellectual Islamic leaders, Dr. Abdullah Hassan Barakat, head of the department of comparative
religions and doctrines, Faculty of Islamic Da’wa, Azhar University. Dr. Barakat affirms the
necessity of extending bridges of culture, co-...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 3, 2004
The article is the second part of an
overview of a study made by two Saudi researchers in order to introduce it in the second National
Dialogue Forum held in Riyadh a couple of weeks ago. According to the study and its authors, the
religious curricula in Saudi Arabia exaggerate in accusing other...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 29, 2004
The article criticizes the Italian cardinal Roberto Tucci who accused Islam of ignoring the rights of non-Muslims and of persecuting the Christians. The article also criticizes the call of poet Abdel-Mo’ti Hegazi for stressing the pharaonic origin of Egyptians, and abandoning Arabism. [He...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 3, 2004
The article reports about Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, an Egyptian
Imam living in Spain who was sentenced to jail and fined 2,160 Euro by a Spanish court. Mustafa
is accused of publishing a book in which he says that punishing a disobedient woman should be
done through light beating.
The court...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 10, 2004
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [EOHR] called on President Mubarak,
in a recent statement, not to ratify the rulings issued by the State Security Court, or
“emergency courts,” in what is known as the Izderaa al-Adyan case, or the blasphemy case. The
statement expressed the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 10, 2004
Refuting Islam’s association with terrorism, Minister of Endowments Muhammad Zaqzouq
explained that terrorism contradicts the tolerant principles of Islam. He also pointed out that
it is unfair to generalize and make accusation against a fifth of the world’s population as a
result of the foolish...
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 23, 2004
Last week, the TV channel Sat 7, a Christian missionary satellite channel, received tens of
angry messages from Muslim viewers concerning the missionary channel’s program, “Questions in
Faith,” that is directed at Muslims. The program discusses sensitive issues in Islamic fiqh
[jurisprudence]...