Date of source: Friday, October 25, 2002
The Qur´an and the true sunna are the only reference points that Muslims should abide by. Each of them must be treated as a whole unit. When discussing the opinion of the Qur´an concerning a certain issue, all verses dealing with that issue should be taken into account. Partial...
Date of source: Saturday, July 20, 2002 to Friday, July 26, 2002
Rose Al-Youssef´s special file for this week covers many different subjects: Terrorists and Islamists living in Britain, Sheikh Amr Khaled´s way of preaching, Islam and politics, the role men of religion can play to build up societies and the issue of hijab in Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 21, 2002
A court in Cairo gave a ruling to an airline agency to compensate a pilot who was dismissed for wearing a hejab. It decided to cancel the dismissal of the female pilot and ordered her re-instatement and payment of her salary for the period she was suspended.
Date of source: Saturday, March 30, 2002 to Friday, April 5, 2002
The Egyptian TV shows religious programs giving fatwas live on air. This leads to confusion among people as fatwas are given without due reflection. The head of the Azhar Fatwa Committee said that not every question could be answered directly. An Azhar scholar said that those who give fatwas...
Date of source: Sunday, March 17, 2002
Muhammad Abdel-Qodos is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He had once interviewed Watani´s Editor-in-Chief for the weekly Afaq Arabiya (Arab Horizons) on Watani, its mission, focus, and stance regarding national issues. The aim of the interview is to confirm the unity between all Egyptians.
Date of source: Saturday, March 2, 2002 to Friday, March 8, 2002
Muslim and Christian clergymen stress that the activity of collecting donations for building mosques and churches offends the creed and deforms its sacredness, especially because some of the people who collect such donations took up this activity as their job to make money without being questioned...
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2002 to Friday, February 15, 2002
The Grand Imam speaks about the agreement the Azhar signed with the Anglican Church. He said that there would be more agreements with other churches in the future. He added that the most important thing is that the dialogue should not focus on creeds. It should focus more on supporting the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
In an exclusive statement to al-Dustour, the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood has announced that "the group sees no problem with building churches." Member of the Irshād [guidance] Office, Dr. Mahmoud ‘Izzat has argued that "People of the Book" are entitled to have their own houses of...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The article discusses the need for changes in the Arab educational curricula. It calls for focusing on this objective and considers Western interference in this respect just a stone thrown into stagnant water.
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2006
The Jihād Group repudiated statements made by their imprisoned leader ‘Abboud al-Zumor, who is serving a term in jail for involvement in the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadāt in 1981, in which he admitted the right of the Bahā’ī faith to express itself.