Date of source: Saturday, June 5, 2004
The second chapter of the charter of the banned Muslim Brotherhood portrays the members as chosen by God to establish an Islamic State on earth. Their talk of democracy in this latest initiative is merely an opportunistic ploy. They continuously and repeatedly seek to abort democracy by playing...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
In his article “The stand of the Salafist Jihad trend toward the Muslim Brotherhood,” Kamal Habib from the Salafist Jihad, discloses the alliance between the jihadic trend “the symbolic reformer of bloody Islam” and the Muslim Brotherhood and all groups that have Islamic projects. This is a...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
On June 1, 2004, Al-Jazeera satellite channel broadcast a discussion between Mustafa Tayseeritsh, the Mufti of Bosnia, and the head of the Tanweer Islamic Center in Cairo, Abu Islam Ahmad Abdullah. The discussion centered on the benefits of dialogue between religions. Abu Islam was the symbol of...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
Arabs and Muslims are searching their history, and they are dealing with today’s events with a mentality dating to many centuries ago. The key problem we are suffering off, is that the world, through fast communications, turned into a small global village of different races and religions and common...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 2004
The whole world is watching us and observing what are we achieving in terms of reform, especially with regards to freedom of expression. We will not stand by helplessly hoping that an internal reform [of the Azhar] is achieved. The Azhar has long been a place for spreading enlightenment and...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
This is not the
first time I go through the harship of takfir [being accused of unbelief]. I read in a newspaper
on June 25 that they received news from the Azhar saying that my book “Shukran Bin Laden” [thank
you Bin Laden] was confiscated and banned from circulation. Are our masters the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 2004
Any
attempt to re-read holy texts and present a new opinion is regarded as apostasy and a deviation
from “what is necessarily recognized as part of religion.” According to this rule, thinking of a
new interpretation of religion is penalized with death. I, along with other intellectuals,
offered...
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2004
‘Sheikh’ Fahmi Huweidi, says in one of our major newspapers, “All the circumstances indicate
that the Israelis, not the Egyptian economy, are the target [of Taba attacks].” In that case we
have to give up our values and Egyptian human heritage in order to view the killing of Israeli
civilians as...
Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 2004
Al-
Qaradāwī has been able to establish himself as a prominent Islamic thinker in the last
few years. In all his books, al-Qaradāwī raised some heated arguments in his opinions
concerning misyar marriage, banning veils in France, etc.
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Some
newspapers act as mouthpieces of extremism, following an approach that totally contradicts with
the approach of the [political] parties [with which these papers affiliate]. These newspapers
turned their back on the country as well as on the values of citizenship. They distribute...