Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2001
Ibn Al-Qayyim listed ten opinions regarding whether non-Muslim women are to stay with their husbands after converting to Islam. Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi preferred the sixth of ten opinions on this matter. Al-Qaradawi added to the sixth opinion that full marriage, including sexual intercourse, is...
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2001
Al-Qaradawi’s fatwa that allows non-Muslim women to stay with their husbands after converting to Islam caused controversy. Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin agreed with the fatwa and explained that the Qur’an prevents a woman who has joined Islam from staying with her apostate husband and not her Kitabi...
Date of source: Sunday, August 26, 2001
The house of a Christian family, in Al-Sharqiya, was demolished by order of the Department of Land Protection for the Agricultural Directorate of Al-Sharqiya, on the grounds that it was built on agricultural land. This house was not the only house built on Agricultural land in the area. However, it...
Date of source: Sunday, August 26, 2001
The author expressed his pride at being an Islamist and someone who likes the Brotherhood and found them to be ideal Muslims. At the same time, he praised the family of the late president Gamal Abdel Nasser, although he was the person who imprisoned the leaders of the Brotherhood.
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2001 to Friday, August 31, 2001
Ahmed Mansour is an Egyptian belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood. He works for
Qatar satellite channel. He always defames Egypt and its former leaders in his program. The author described him as a gravedigger, digging for politically dead people to use in his arguments.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood denied having any relationship with the suspended Wefaq Party. The president of the party claimed that the party was suspended because of its intention to create a coalition with the Brotherhood and the Labor Party.
Date of source: Monday, August 27, 2001
The Higher State Security Prosecution ordered that 36 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, in Assiut, be remanded in custody for another 15 days.
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2001 to Friday, August 31, 2001
Sixteen imprisoned members of the Brotherhood, including a number of professional syndicate activists, filed a lawsuit demanding to be released, arguing that they were convicted under item 48 of the penal code, which the Constitutional Court annulled.
Date of source: Monday, August 27, 2001
After the Constitutional Court annulled item 48 of the penal code, 12 lawyers from different political and intellectual backgrounds filed a lawsuit to release 15 imprisoned members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2001 to Friday, August 31, 2001
In its seminar for this week, Rose El-Youssef discussed the reasons for the attraction of young people to sheikhs like Amr Khalid and how to deal with such sheikhs. All the religious men and intellectuals that were present agreed that a religious, political and cultural vacancy was behind this...