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Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
"The Islamic Guiding Center" in Cairo or "Kabul Mosque" as its members call it introduces various religious and social services. The article sheds light on theses activities and points out that the members of the newly formed organization Al-Wa’d used to gather in the Kabul mosque. The security...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
Sheikh Fawzy Al-Said is the mufti of a newly formed Islamic group called Al-Wa’d. He issued many cassette tapes in which he asks Muslims to join the jihad and fight against other foreign countries which he describes as "The anti Christ." He gave some fatwas demanding that Muslims who belong to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 30, 2002
Some parents of the students, accused of providing support to the Palestinian people through the Al-Wa´ad organization, asked the Egyptian president to intervene and reconsider the status of their sons. They argued that their sons responded to the call to support Palestine by joining the group...
Date of source: Sunday, December 9, 2001
The Mufti of Egypt believes that the reasons behind the rise of extremist organizations in Egypt are the misunderstanding of Islam and the negligence of religious education. He stressed that Christians are not kuffar as they believe in God and his holy books and messengers. If Christians do not...
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The papers of this week are still concentrating on the investigations conducted about the 94 members of Al-Wa’ad organization and the dangerous facts the investigations showed.
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
The investigations conducted with the members of Al-Wa’ad organization revealed that they were planning to attack the building of the Egyptian Television and to assassinate some American pilots living in Heliopolis district, some ministers and other prominent Egyptian figures.
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.