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4. Improving the image of Islam…or that of hawkish Islamists?
Date of source: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The author wonders in this article whether increasing the number of dā‘iyas are enough to convince the West of the soundness of the Muslim faith.
3. Islam’s respect for other religions
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Islam respects all other divine religions, even at the time it is being attacked and offended. True Muslims are those who believe in other religions and messengers.
19. Hard-line tendency in the Azhar
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author presents a meeting between Ahmad ‘Abd al- Mu‘ti Hijāzī a famous Egyptian poet and the muftī in which Hijāzī talked about the relationship between scholars, extremism and terrorism. The muftī boasted that all those who proved to be extremists or terrorists were not graduates of...
26. Referee al-Sayyid suspends football league games to hear the adhan
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
The author investigates the practice of an international football referee, Muhammad al-Sayyīd, who has reportedly stopped several games in the football league to listen to the adhān.
19. The Metro’s women preachers
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Preaching on public transport has become a phenomenon in the past few years. “It is very common in microbuses to find people giving cassette tapes with religious content to the driver to play throughout the journey.” Walīd Ahmad, a university student, says.
49. Attacking churches, synagogues is impermissible according to Islamic shari‘a
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2006
Muslim scholars unanimously agree that attacking the houses of worship of non-Muslims is harām [religiously impermissible].
24. The concept of religious freedom in Islam
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2006
In an interview, the general director of the Religious Guidance Department at the Ministry of Awqāf [Endowments], Dr. Sālim ‘Abd al-Jalīl argues that freedom of religion is guaranteed in Islam, since God says: “There is no compulsion in religion. The right direction is henceforth distinct...
11. The presence of the “outlawed” Muslim Brotherhood in the political arena motivates other Islamic movements to appear
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Mr. Muhammad al-Dirīnī has said in an interview that he intends to establish a Shi’ite political party and a university in Egypt to propagate Shi’ism.
67. Mubarak says Muslim world can’t keep itself inside a shell or ignore global developments
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
The president, in the celebrations held annually by the awqāf ministry to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, called on Muslims all over the world to catch up with modern developments and science.
18. How to make peace between Islam and the world?
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
The author warns against Islamic extremists and the danger they pose to the world, suggesting that Islam nowadays poses the same threat as fascism in 1930s.

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