Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 10, 1999
Fundamentalists, in particular the Islamist variety, relate to religious concepts, including the concept of Jihad, in an instrumentalist approach which is nearly always absolutist, that is, it entails an absolute assertion of one, generally de-contextualized, aspect of religion and a total...
Date of source: Friday, January 8, 1999
A rare interview conducted in one of the secret camps of Usama Bin Laden by ABC News.
Date of source: Sunday, December 27, 1998
The Gama’at al-Islamiya calls Muslims to fight the US in retaliation for its air strikes against Iraq.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 11, 1998
The General Guide of the Ikhwan Al-Muslimun (Muslim Brotherhood) did not answer the questions of Dr. Sai’d Al-Nagar, head of the liberal ’New Call Society’, the [human rights]lawyer Maurice Sadek, and Hazem Al-Kilani, from a splinter group of the brotherhood and one of the founders of Al-Wasat (...
Date of source: Monday, September 14, 1998
Also Dr. al-Qimni addresses issues of double standards. For example one of the current Sheikhs of extremism thinks that it is the Muslim’s duty to declare war against Bulgaria and Spain since they were once Islamic territories. But territories that were once Christian are not discussed. Several...
Date of source: Sunday, August 9, 1998
[and Al-Ahrar, August 10, 1998]
Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies issues its second ’Report on the Religious Situation in Egypt’.
Date of source: Friday, July 24, 1998
In a meeting with the American ambassador to Egypt, Dr. Nasr Farid Wassel, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, said that there is no religious persecution of Christians by Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, July 17, 1998
In the RNSAW of June 27 - July 1 1998, a translation was given of an article of Fikriya Ahmed in El-Wafd 27, titled ’The Dutch intelligence condemns Muslims in its annual report’. The RNSAW obtained the text of the summary of this report and translated it for our readers.
Date of source: Monday, June 22, 1998
A discussion of whether or not it is necessary or acceptable to have an Islamic party.