Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2005
Even the poliomyelitis serum was not safe from those blizzards of blind fatwas, which this time did not come from the Gulf countries or fanatics at home, but rather from Muslim leaders in some African countries, who decreed this vaccine as harām [religiously impermissible] on the pretext that “it...
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2005
In his new book al-Islām wa al-Dawla al-Madanīya [Islam and the civil state], Dr. cAbd al-Muctī Bayyoumī totally opposes the notion of a religious state and regards it as a big contradiction with the spirit of Islam. Moreover, he assures that the state of Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) was absolutely a...
Date of source: Saturday, February 1, 2003
Comments on the fatwa of the head of the Azhar Fatwa Committee saying that any person who holds American citizenship, or citizenship of any country that fights any Muslim people, is an apostate
Date of source: Monday, January 20, 2003
The Grand Imam sent a message to the German paper "Frankfurter Algemeine" commenting on martyrdom operations and the stand of Islam towards terrorism. "Letters to the Editor" show that the majority of Germans know little about Islam and that the dialogue needed between Islam and the West is a...
Date of source: Thursday, March 11, 2004
The media secretariats in the NDP’s branches in the governorates started discussing the working paper that concerns the development of the religious discourse.
The religious discourse that we need should play a central role in forming our religious conscience, which cannot develop without the...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Arab Gulf countries have linked Egyptians’ work in their countries with specific hard line religious trends and sects. These Arabs have enforced on us Wahhabi thoughts and their Bedouin, tribal, customs. They have imposed on us monaqaba [veiled including a cover of the face] women, myths,...
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
The second meeting of the Conference on Recent [Topics] in Islamic Thought, organized by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf [Endowments], witnessed a hot debate about the possibility of renewing fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] terminology concerning jihad and international relations. The conference, the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 2, 2004
In this interview, the Coptic intellectual Dr. Milad Hanna expresses his free-spoken opinions concerning the aspired political reform in Egypt and the situation of Copts in terms of principles of equality and citizenship.
Date of source: Friday, April 30, 2004
The primary purpose of this war led by America is to seize the sources of energy in the region. America’s control of Iraq’s resources of energy will give it [America] hegemony over the world, so that this century will be an American century. However, one cannot fail to notice the religious aspect...
Date of source: Sunday, May 16, 2004
Among the grievances long placed ‘on hold’ in Egypt is the attitude of state administrative and security apparatuses towards citizens who practice their right to convert from their original to another religious faith. If a Christian converts to Islam, officials welcome him or her with open arms and...