Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
It was said that Sheikh Amr Khalid used the scientific method and a free mature way of thinking in explaining the Qur’an and Sunna. However the author provides many examples of how Khalid imitates the ways used by preachers for many centuries. He proves that he is very far from using the scientific...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, member of our Board of Advisors, is no longer dean of the Faculty of Islamic Theology (’Usul el-Din) at the Azhar. He was dean from 1989 to 1991 and from 1997 to 2001. The two periods are a total of six years which is the maximum someone can be the dean of this college. Dr...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 28, 2001
The Prosecution ordered that the son of the owner of Al-Nabaa newspaper and another journalist working on the paper be imprisoned for four days for leading 50 gangsters who broke into the headquarters of the Journalists’ Syndicate and attacked its deputy and its general secretary.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
A Christian orthodox husband filed a lawsuit asking for his marriage contract to be considered invalid as his orthodox wife had married him only one month after she was divorced from her first husband. This means that she married him before the end of the months of Edda [the period she needs to...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Pope Shenouda appointed the son of his nephew as an accountant in the Bishopric for Ecumenical and Social Services. Some people claimed that the pope appointed him in the Bishopric so he could later take over the post of the director of the Patriarchal office. This made them believe that there is...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
The lawsuit Archpriest Andrawis Aziz filed against Pope Shenouda to cancel the decision that stripped him of his religious title and the report of the State Council Judges which viewed the decisions of the church as administrative decisions pushed Al-Kalema [the word] Center for human rights to...
Date of source: Friday, August 31, 2001
The book "Treatment of Non-Muslims in the State of Islam," by Ibrahim Suleiman, refutes the claims accusing Islam of being a religion of fanaticism that blots out freedom. It also discusses the principles of the Islamic Shari’a regarding the treatment of non-Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, September 2, 2001
A cooperation protocol between the Azhar and the Islamic University of Rotterdam, in Holland, which is suspected of having Zionist associations, was signed. The deputy of the Azhar University said that before signing such a protocol, the Azhar had consulted the Egyptian Embassy, in Holland, and...
Date of source: Saturday, September 1, 2001
The Afghani Taliban movement closed the offices of two Christian aid agencies, claiming that they had relationships with aid workers accused of Christian missionary activity in Afghanistan.
Date of source: Sunday, September 2, 2001
The board of the Neurosurgery Department of Zagazig Medical School responded to the editorial in Watani of August 5 which carried the title "Tyrannized in Medical School." The editorial concerned the allegedly denied rights of promotion of Dr. Joseph Badie Iskandar for being a Christian. The board...