Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Architect Hussein Sabbour, a colleague of Minister of Agriculture Youssef Wali who had been attacked by Islamist paper el-Shaab, announced on 18 October that he would file suit against the Islamist newspaper Al Shaab which accused him of improprieties.
Date of source: Saturday, October 30, 1999
The note which was found in the wallet of one of the suspects in the last lawsuit of the Muslim Brotherhood, became a key document in the lawsuit. The note is entitled "the syndicates’ membership department" which is described as one of the technical offices supervised by the guidance office of the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 30, 1999
What does the Brotherhood have that scares the government? One of the deputies of the General Guide of the Brotherhood is a Syrian. How can Egyptian’s accept this, the paper asks. The arrests of major members of the Brotherhood have caused an internal turmoil. Some Brothers see the crackdown as a...
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Minister of Justice Farouq Seif Al Nasr announced on 18 October the names of four judges who would form half of a committee to organize elections in the lawyers’ syndicate.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Recent arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members appear linked to the government’s decision to allow lawyers’ syndicate election to take place.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood continued as the prosecutor-general extended the detention of 20 alleged Brotherhood activists, arrested two weeks ago, by another 15 days pending investigation.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
The interior minister on 16 October announced the arrest of 20 leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood in the biggest crackdown on the conservative Islamic group in four years.
Date of source: Friday, October 29, 1999
Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamad Al Khalily, the grand mufti of Oman, has said that there are two reasons for the spread of Islam. First, there is the internal reason that has something to do with its principles and articles of faith, including its morals and values to humanity, as contained in Qur`an and...
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
"Since you cannot convey reality precisely, since in the last resort there is no precise reality to convey, why worry? All that is expected of you is a good story, so let them have it. Truth? What is truth?" writes Edward Mortimer in "Islam and the Western journalist." And thus the Western press...
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Maverick lawyer Mustafa Rasian is filing suit against the Interior Minister, Sheikh Al Azhar and the Grand Mufti of the Republic because of a new policy mandating that Hajj pilgrims wait five years before going to Hijaz again.