Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 24, 2006
The press review
deals
with the incidents of Alexandria, from an analytical point of view, in an attempt to probe the reasons for
the assault on three churches by an allegedly schizophrenic young man called Mahmoud Salāh, who killed
one
person and injured scores others while shouting Fidāk Yā...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 19, 2006
The head of
the banned Muslim Brotherhood has declined to offer an apology for
his statements in an interview published by
Rose al-Yousuf newspaper in which he said "to hell with
Egypt and its people," which drew wide-scale angry
reactions in the Egyptian press.
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 13, 2006
The recent ruling by the Administrative Judiciary Court recognizing the
Bahā’ī faith in
Egyptian official documents like identity cards, passports or birth certificates
has triggered outcry from
official Muslim religious institutions that vehemently reject the ruling.
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2006
A People’s Assembly session was dedicated to debating
the assaults on
churches in Alexandria by an allegedly insane Muslim man, who stabbed one worshipper to death and
injured
several others. The session also discussed the failure of the security agencies to stop the culprit.
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2006
The review tackles the incidents of Alexandria, where a man, alleged by the Ministry
of the Interior to be a lunatic, stormed three churches one after the other, and stabbed worshippers while
chanting Muslim slogans in praise of the Prophet Muhammad.
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2006
Muslim Brotherhood officials said they would apologize to the Egyptian people if the statements attributed to their leader, in which he allegedly said "to hell with Egypt and its people" turned out to be authentic. Reactions to ‘Ākif’s statements, published within an interview by Rose al-Yousuf...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 10, 2006
The government’s National Council for Human Rights has issued its second annual report, which criticized the emergency law, in effect for 25 years, calling on the government to stop all such exceptional laws.
Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 7, 2006
Religious institutions in Egypt are still rejecting a project to produce the first
Egyptian movie about the
life of Jesus Christ, but the filmmakers are determined to continue.
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 3, 2006
Pope Shenouda’s rejection of the Administrative Judiciary Court’s ruling granting divorced Christians the right to a second marriage is still drawing wide-scale reactions as many Coptic writers support the pope’s decision on the grounds that the ruling clashes with biblical texts.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 4, 2006
The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) chief has said that it is no longer possible to have dialogue between the Muslim world and Europe after the Danish cartoons crisis unless certain measures are adopted.