Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Egypt has said that it would not object to the return of a militant leader serving a life sentence in the United States on the condition that when he returns home he serves a sentence passed against him by Egypt some ten years ago.
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
The secularists refuse the establishment of Islamic parties, which is favored by Islamists. In the view of these secularists it would mean the destruction of the society. An unpublished judicial report states that the law and the constitution does not prohibit the establishment of "Islamic"...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
El-Sayeda Zeinab Mosque which lures huge members of worshippers from Cairo and other parts of the nation, is experiencing large-scale renovations which are planned to make the building able to accommodate as many as 12,000 persons.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 1999
During the last weeks, the secularists claimed that Islam rejects art and considers it its enemy. But the Islamic view is that real art is the one which elevates the soul, purifies it from all evils and raises it to different cultural and mental levels.
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Article 20 of the new Personal Status law has legalized the women’s right of Al-Khulaa, which allows women to divorce themselves by waiving all their financial entitlements. But reviving this system caused controversy among sheikhs.
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 1999
"Call people to the path of your Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the most kindly manner. Your Lord knows best who strays from His path and who are rightly guided." Sayyid Qutb, the main ideologue for many Islamists, explains this verse.
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Al-Azhar has published a copy of the Holy Qur’an and they claimed that they have revised this copy before it is distributed. But we discovered the opposite. The copy was full of faults. The chapters (Suras) were not in their original order and neither were the verses.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 17, 1999
An article in Al-Arabi newspaper under the title "Islam is innocent in relation to the punishment for apostasy" claimed that the Prophet did not kill the apostates and that the punishment for apostasy was invented by the jurists. I can present to you many verses which prove that the apostates were...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Sobhi Mansour and Rashad Khalifa said in one voice that everyone who says that Mohammed is the prophet of God is an apostate. According to al-Ahrar Sobhi Mansour said that Al-Azhar is the castle of the devil.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 17, 1999
In this issue Al-Ahrar presents black pages from the life of the lying prophet and other pages from the life of his repentant representatives Sobhi Mansour and Rashad Khalifa.