Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2005
The Jordanian Abu Mus‘ab al-Zarqāwī justified that innocent victims are killed by booby traps and suicide bombers operations, by appealing to an old fatwa , which has become widely used once again.
Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2002
Islam is a lofty religion that gave birth to a civilization based on thought and science. It can never be a religion that calls for violence and terrorism. Islam is a universal message, not only because it gave this world a civilization, but also because Islam coexists with other religions and...
Date of source: Saturday, August 10, 2002
Rose El-Youssef’s special series on extremism sheds light upon the extremist Al-Tahrir Party [Liberation party] that plans to establish Islamic rule, the book of “Al-Sufur Wa Al-Hijab [Unveiling and Veiling]” and so-called Islamic medicine. It also interviews the Sheikh of the Azhar on Islamic...
Date of source: Sunday, August 4, 2002
Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid speaks about the problem of linking Islam with terrorism and presents two approaches to deal with the problem. The first is to show Qur’anic texts that call for peace and tolerance and to interpret the texts calling for violence within the framework of their historical...
Date of source: Saturday, August 3, 2002
The article traces the origin of the slogans of political Islamic groups and comments on them. It shows the difference between jihad and killing and explains the true meaning of “Crusades” and “Zionism” and how political Islamic groups served both of them while claiming to fight against them.
Date of source: Saturday, July 27, 2002
Rose El-Youssef’s special file for this week contains an interview with Abdullah Annas, a pioneering Arab Afghan and articles on new preachers, how terrorists have exploited cassette tapes to spread their ideas, the Prophet’s perception of terrorism, the Brotherhood’s perception of women, the issue...
Date of source: Friday, July 19, 2002
The article gives a brief overview of some extremist books banned by the Azhar - which shows the role of the Azhar in resisting extremism. Some of these books formed a major reference for the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and Takfir groups [that accuse people of apostasy from Islam].
Date of source: Saturday, June 15, 2002
Remark on a two-day conference about international terrorism.
Announcement of an article about polarization between Muslims and Christian reported in this issue.
Date of source: Saturday, June 29, 2002
Rose Al-Youssef continued its campaign against extremism in its special file this week. The articles of the file covered the prevalent culture in Egypt and the rest of the Arab world, the language extremists use in order to spread their misguided deceptive thoughts in society, the fact that some...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 11, 2002
The author questions why we are unable to help the Palestinians. He believes it is because of the weakness of the intellectuals who have dominated our cultural life. Many concepts are undefined and there is a shortage of imams.