Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2006
Discrimination against other religious sects and strange fatwas and religious teachings are the main grounds for the Alexandria attacks and other incidents of sectarian sedition. The writer suggests certain actions be taken to diminish this stream of hostility and discrimination that is taking over...
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2006
The author explains that Egyptian Christians are being unfairly linked to the ‘global Christian conspiracy’ against Islam and Muslims reflected in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 16, 2006
A review of the media coverage following the Alexandria church stabbings concludes that both Muslims and Christians condemned the attacks and spoke of the need for change in the citizenship rights of Christians.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
An article covering a seminar which took place at the Cairo
Center for
Human Rights on problems facing Copts in Egypt in which a number of famous Egyptian intellectuals
participated.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The
author writes about the current sectarian crisis between Muslims and Copts in Egyptian
society, listing a number of
factors that have caused these problems.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
Salah Muntasir discusses the reasons for the Muslim- Christian tensions in the aftermath of the Alexandria incidents.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
‘Adb al-Qādir Shuhayb tackles the latest political incidents in Egypt and the
influence of the
banned Muslim Brotherhood on events. He also discuses the new wave of terror in Sinai and
how to eliminate it.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006 to Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Egyptian intellectuals express their
views on the
reason behind the Alexandria incident in particular and sectarian tension in Egypt in general.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
The author reviews the development of the Coptic issue,
expressing
the opinion that the regimes of Nāsir, Sādāt, and Mubārak are responsible
for the rise of
Islamic fundamentalism, which has harmed Copts.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
Ashley Makar writes about the concept of martyrdom in Egypt, the Alexandria incidents, where a Muslim man ran amuck with a knife, stabbing worshippers and killing one man and the image Egyptians have of ‘the other.’