Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 14, 2005
Dr. Larry Levine responds to questions about different Jewish denominations, conversion to Judaism in the past and the Israeli Law of Return.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 14, 2005
The exaggeration about the comparison between the role of traditional Islam and the Coptic Orthodox Church is simple. It is not the difference in attitude but in numbers/statistics. Copts simply do not have the numbers to seek power as Islamists do.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 7, 2005
Father Basilius of the Monastery of Makarius responds to the articles of Dr. John Watson [week21] and Amīr Mīlād [week 22] about the Wādī al-Rayyān, providing more details, showing the hierarchical structure of the church that does not accept individual monks going their own way.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 14, 2005
In his last Friday sermon in Doha, Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī indicated that it may be his last this season and revealed that the Qatari TV had erased all his previous speeches.
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 1, 2005
It was an astonishing and embarrassing episode to see the absence of the Arab World from the battle for an academic boycott of Israeli universities. Only Palestinian academics pursued the efforts to continue the British academic boycott against Israeli academia.
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 6, 2005
‘Amr Khlālid emerged to present a model and an idol for Muslim youth seeking modernity and moderation. He didn’t look or dress like classical clerics, and spoke the language of the poor and unprivileged, and gave hope to the hopeless.
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 4, 2005
Dr. Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘ā, Muftī of Egypt, said that Islam has limited polygamy. In a Hadīth reported by Sālim, his father, Ghaylān Ibn Salāma al-Thaqafī, had ten concubines when he embraced Islam. The Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] told him to “chose only four of them” to marry.
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 11, 2005
Muhammad al-Najjār presents an over all picture of the new political movements in Egypt that demand a comprehensive political-constitutional reform in Egypt.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 28, 2005
Interview with Amīr Mīlād, a Christian desert guide, about the monks in the Wādī al-Rayyān. Amīr Mīlād adds information to the article of Dr. John Watson in AWR, 2005, week 20.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 28, 2005
An Al-ʾAsbū‘ article published on January 31, 2005, reinforces a widespread belief that Americans are trying to use Egypt’s Christians to create a wedge between Muslims and Christians with the purpose of weakening Egypt. The article lacks accuracy but shows Egyptian distrust of US involvement in...