Date of source: Sunday, February 23, 2003
Egyptian State Security Prosecution ordered the imprisonment of 26 persons charged with being members in the Al-Takfir wa Al-Higra group. The group includes a Christian convert to Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, January 26, 2003
State Security Prosecution issued an order to extend the detention of Dr. Yasser Al-Borhani for 15 days pending investigations. Al-Borhani is accused of leading a group to revive the activities of Al-Takfir wa Al-Higra group.
Date of source: Saturday, January 18, 2003
The Egyptian police arrested 20 members of an extremist fundamentalist group in Alexandria. The leader of the group converted to Islam from Christianity ten years ago.
Date of source: Saturday, August 20, 2005 to Friday, August 26, 2005
Terrorism is a microbe that comes and goes, depending on the state’s immune system, but it never dies. There is no vaccine against terror because it was originally imposed with the help of the major powers.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2002
The general secretary of the Islamic Research Institution demanded the confiscation of many books, claiming that they imply apostasy and unbelief. One of these books is Khalil Abdel-Kareem’s “Al-Nass Al-Mu’assis Wa Mujtama’u” [The Principle Text and its Context] which was harshly criticized in Al-...
Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
The leaders of the Egyptian Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya criticized Al-Qa’ida, led by Usama Ben Laden, as “having strange calculations and mixing things up because it declared war on the whole world when it does not have enough power.” The leaders of Al-Gama’a stressed in their new book that Al-Qa’ida “...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
Al-Wafd starts a series of articles on the future of movements of political Islam in Egypt, their attitude towards democracy, participation and circulation of authority. In this article it reviews the most important Islamic movements that adopted violence in order to reach power and their attitude...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Gamal Al-Banna believes that the violence of the Islamic groups is a reaction to the barbaric torture practiced by the State against the Muslim Brotherhood in the time of president Gamal Abdel-Nasser. Dr. Essam Al-Eryan said that some Islamic groups believe in the necessity of military action as a...
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2001 to Friday, December 7, 2001
Behind any terrorist organization there is a mufti deciding what is halal and what is haram according to his point of view. The article gives an overview of the most famous muftis of terrorist organizations and the fatwas they issued.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
Dr. Rifa’at Al-Said, the general secretary of the Tagammu opposition party, believes that Islamizing politics is the essence of terrorism and that the Muslim Brotherhood were the first to use terrorism. He stresses that that Islam is not a fertile ground for radical thoughts as some people claim.