Date of source: Friday, December 21, 2001
The minister for Religious Endowments, Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq responded to questions about new regulations for building mosques. The minister described the current debate as an unfair campaign against a ministry that serves Islam and Moslems. The Minister said that those conditions have actually...
Date of source: Saturday, December 22, 2001 to Friday, December 28, 2001
Reforming the religious discourse is a must. Reforming Islamic jurisprudence requires interpretation based on reason not the text, and modernization not traditional ways, so that jurisprudents and Islamic scholars can find in Islam new rules and modern principles to motivate the reason and inspire...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Islam agrees with secularism in that it does not acknowledge the theological state and in granting life and man’s activities in life their rights. In Europe where the values of Christianity are opposite to the values of secularism, there has been a kind of controversial interaction between...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 26, 2001
Next Wednesday, the Cairo Cassation Court will examine the appeal lodged by the head of the Ibn Khaldoun Center against the seven-years imprisonment sentence he had received.
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2001 to Friday, December 21, 2001
The article is about the four Egyptians who died at the attacks of the September 11. The author believes that their death proved that terrorism does not differentiate between an Egyptian and a foreigner, or between a Muslim and a Christian.
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2001
Usama Rushdie, a leader in the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, said that he would not be extradited to the Egyptian authorities because there is no agreement between Egypt and Holland for exchanging fugitives.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 12, 2001
The family of Ayman Al-Zawahri has acknowledged the death of his wife and five children and received condolences in the family house. But the family of Al-Zawahari’s wife has not acknowledged yet the deaths of their daughter and her children.
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2001 to Friday, December 21, 2001
The article gives an overview of the life of terrorist Muhammad Abul-Saud. He is an example of the double agent. The Pentagon and the CIA sent him to Afghanistan in order to collect information about the Mujahideen there. His mission was to supervise the fighting operations against the Soviet...
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2001
The article is a comment by Usama Rushdie, a leader in the Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya, on the memoirs of Ayman Al-Zawahri. He stressed that the opinion he expressed in the article does not represent the attitude of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya as he is not authorized to speak on behalf of them.
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2001 to Friday, December 21, 2001
The article gives an overview of the terrorist actions Ayman Al-Zawahri and his followers committed in Egypt. It also speaks about the reasons that led Al-Zawahri to blow up the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan.