Date of source: Monday, January 14, 2002
In the first session of the religious committee of the People´s Assembly, President of the People´s Assembly said that Islam has never been a religion that calls for violence or terrorism. The Sheikh of the Azhar said that as distant as heaven is from earth, so terrorism is from jihad....
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
A symposium on "the secularization of the state," organized under the aegis of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, has turned into a Coptic-Muslim Brotherhood debate on canceling the second article of the Egyptian constitution, which makes Islam the state religion, and Islamic sharī‘a the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2006
‘Aziz al-Hajj argues that Islamic religious activities have turned into purely political activities. This applies to Islamic activities in the West. Al-Hajj explains several reasons for the rise of political Islam in the West.
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
The author discusses a conference hosted by the Azhar on calls by Sufis to internationalize Muslim sanctities and bring an end to the Wahābīs’ control over them.
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2006
The author argues that Islamists use democracy as a Trojan horse until they reach power, when they then start another strategy which the author calls "the terrorizing of democracy", applying a version of autocracy under Islamist ideologies.
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2006
Majdī Khalīl criticizes Muslim extremists who he believes are leading the Arab and Muslim world to backwardness and preventing them from keeping up with modernization.
Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2006
The author is arguing that the Danish cartoons crisis is just another round in the historical conflict between the Muslim world and the West. He elaborates on five historical major conflicts between these two entities.
Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2006
The author reviews a report issued by Al-Ahrām Center for Political and Strategic Studies in the form of a handbook about Islamist movements and organizations, in a bid to come up with a clear definition of terrorism.
Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2006
The author provides a commentary on the Muslim Brotherhood, criticizing its actions and beliefs, and warning that it is gaining substantial ground toward becoming the political leaders of perhaps multiple Arab nations.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Intellectual Fahmī Huwaydī criticizes in an interview ailing political practices and blames political parties that fail to rise up to people’s expectations due to their frail partisan performance and internal disputes and power struggles.