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Date of source: Saturday, July 28, 2001
Young people in Egypt are divided between two groups. One group finds in Islam an identity and a belonging. Another group that does not know a certain identity, refuses to be put in a certain frame and has doubts about all the political and intellectual trends. Sheikh Amr Khalid is the only bridge...
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2001
The public opinion in Egypt is politically sick. Religion came to occupy the place of politics. People in charge might think they could distract the youth away from being politically active with religion, and they might imagine that they can use the political slumbers of the youth for their own...
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2001
Some people think that Sheikh Amr Khalid is the product of the government that tries to steal the spotlight from the real scholars. Some say he is a temporary phenomenon. He was once classified as being a member of the Brotherhood. Khalid’s supporters say his preaching for the elite serves social...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
Sheikh Amr Khalid is attacked for being an AUC graduate and not a specialist in religion and for being a young preacher, the majority of whose audience are teenagers. The author believes that being young is not a point against him as he has a talent for preaching. He is using a language that suits...
Date of source: Friday, July 13, 2001
Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi said that he was proud of the fact that he made many former actresses wear the veil, stressing that there was no contradiction between the veil and acting as the veil is a religious duty, and acting is not a sin. He added that it was not strange to send his daughters to the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2001 to Friday, July 20, 2001
A lady wondered why attacking Sheikh Amr Khalid if God had guided thousands through him. A researcher in Islamism said that Khalid was trying to penetrate the elite class and the rich, and attract them to Islam, especially after the failure of political violence, which concentrated on attracting...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2001 to Friday, July 13, 2001
Sheikh Amr Khalid, an AUC [American University in Cairo] graduate, who now preaches in Al-Maghfira mosque in Agouza began his activities by preaching in homes. He then moved to preaching in mosques, and even on television. The national press distributes his tapes with their publications. Thousands...
Date of source: Saturday, May 26, 2001 to Friday, June 1, 2001
The public expected Iqra’ [recite, the very first word revealed in the Qur’an] satellite channel to offer an enlightened reading of Islam to agree with the givens of the new globalization time. However, the channel ended up by becoming the official channel for extremists and stagnant jurisprudence.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Professor Abdel-Sabour Shahin and Dr. Omar Abdel-Kafi explained everybody in Heaven will be thirty-three years old, the age of Christ when he ascended to Heaven [according to the Muslim version of the story]. They will also be as big as Adam, as good-looking as Joseph, and as well spoken as...
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, March 9, 2001
TV makes some sheikhs seem holy. Omar Abdel Kafi found himself glorified and then infallible and therefore holy. Whatever he said was believed. Abdel Sabour Shahin deceived lots of people by telling them that depositing their money in Al Rayan (An Islamic bank which couldn’t pay back the depositors...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.