Date of source: Sunday, November 4, 2001
The author comments on the new conditions passed by the Cabinet for building mosques. He believes some of them to be restriction imposed on building mosques. He criticizes the fact that while the president gives his executive authority concerning the building and the restoration of churches to the...
Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
Some people are trying to promote some products and magazines by offering religious CDs and cassette albums containing recordings of Qur’anic recitals by two unknown sheikhs. The former dean of the Arabic Language Faculty at the Azhar University said that there was nothing wrong about these CDs and...
Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
The Islamic da’wa was badly affected as it has been carried out by people who concentrate on the appearance rather than the core of religion. Islam will not benefit from people who travel to Europe and America wearing short white gallabiyas, sitting on the ground licking their fingers after having...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 5, 2001
Response to two reports of the Middle East Media Research Institute [MEMRI] about Jihad during Ramadan and plans of a prominent Egyptian actor to produce a series for TV based on the notoriously anti-Semitic "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
Date of source: Monday, December 3, 2001
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Brotherhood’s leaders affirmed that the group was calling for dialogue and not for confrontation. He called the government to dialogue and cooperation in order to face the challenges of the biased...
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2001
Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, who is supposed to be a leader in Al-Qa’eda organization and the son of the spiritual leader of the Egyptian Gama’at Al-Islamiya, was detained in Kabul. His family asked for his acquittal, claiming that he had no relation with Al-Qa’eda organization.
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2001 to Friday, December 7, 2001
The article gives an overview of the history of the new military leader of Al-Qa’eda organization. The author believes him to be an example on the duality of the West’s attitude towards terrorism. He was created by the CIA during the Soviet-Afghan war and now he is wanted by the American...
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2001 to Friday, December 7, 2001
Behind any terrorist organization there is a mufti deciding what is halal and what is haram according to his point of view. The article gives an overview of the most famous muftis of terrorist organizations and the fatwas they issued.
Date of source: Thursday, November 29, 2001
The author believes that poverty, ignorance and political oppression are not the real reasons behind terrorism. Terrorism grows up in societies where a dogmatic culture prevails. There are satellite channels that promote terrorist ideas and host religious analysts to justify what they preach....
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2001
The Mufti of Egypt affirmed that savage practices against innocent civilians and captives in Palestine and Afghanistan are contrary to the teachings of Islam. He said that the events that are taking place in Palestine and Afghanistan are happening because of the weakness and separations between...