Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
The author presents some views of security personalities and other experts regarding Islamic groups’ manipulation of democracy.
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
The author introduces the viewpoints of renowned Muslim intellectuals about the relationship between Islam and democracy.
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
In an interview, renowend writer Salāh ‘Īsa stresses elections as one of the tools of democracy. He believes that if Islamists come to power in any Arab country, they will amalgamate with other political powers and ultimately they will become secular parties with Islamic titles.
Date of source: Thursday, February 2, 2006
The director of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Strategic Studies, Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, lashed out at political Islam movements. He blames them for their illiberal approach, which he thinks dominates the Arab world at the present time, but supports an increase in their status so long as they are...
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
In this interview, Dr. Muhammad Farahāt argues that the way of thinking of the Islamic has witnessed many changes during the last twenty years.
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
Labīb suggests that Islamic civilization has remained silent about the institutional structure that should shoulder the responsibility of ensuring that power is not abused. It has also never acknowledged political plurality, and there have been zero efforts to get the people to participate in...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2006
‘Abd al-Rahmān Hallalī discusses the wane and resurgence of political Islamic movements, arguing that after the 9/11 incidents, it became no longer possible to ignore the Islamist movements, not because of their violence, but rather because extremist Islam can never be handled except with moderate...
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
The Islamic resistance movement, Hamās, has won a landslide victory in the recent parliamentary elections, raising questions about the future of the Middle East peace process.
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2006
The alliance is spearheaded by al-Zumur from within his jail on behalf of all the detained Islamist groups, while al-Durīnī represents the Shiites of Egypt and Coptic lawyer Mamdouh Nakhla, the director of al-Kalima human rights center, represents Egyptian Christians.
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2006
It is not acceptable that setting up a radio station like Radio Sawa or a TV channel like al-Hurra would offer good indications for keenness on having this dialogue.