Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2001
There is a relationship of a special kind between the nation and the Copts. That relationship was represented in individual Copts who were rich or highly educated who had special relationships with the governor. The author is of the opinion that if a group of Muslim and Christian wise men is formed...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2001
The writer believes that the demonstrations by thousands of Coptic youths in the Patriarchate, protesting about what Al-Nabaa published, should not be considered only in the light of Al-Nabaa disaster. He compared between the problem the "Banquet for Seaweed" caused and that caused by the story of...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
The Copts Daily Digest published on July 8 an attack of Dr. Raafat Labeeb on an article of Mustafa Mahmoud in Al-Ahram a day earlier. Dr. Mahmoud wrote in that article that the Torah mentions nothing about the afterlife because Jewish rabbis had deleted everything from the original text to that...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2001
The head of the Swiss Muslim-Christian Debate Society is of the opinion that
Muslims should understand the foundations of the western civilization in order to address it in a proper discourse. He believes that they have no channels to direct the correct Muslim discourse, not only to westerners,...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
President Mubarak stressed that posts in Egypt were not distributed on a sectarian basis but on the basis of efficiency and merit and that there was no discrimination between Muslims and Copts. As for Al-Kosheh rulings, he stressed that there was no intervention in the rulings the court made....
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2001
Egyptian security bodies announced the death of the expelled monk Boulis Al-Baramousi. The monk was found dead as a result of eating poisoned food. The prosecution decided there should be an autopsy and ordered investigations to prove that there were no criminal suspicions about his death,...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2001 to Friday, July 13, 2001
The author believes that every actress has the right to stop acting and wear the veil. However, she has no right to repent of acting, because acting is not a sin. She has no right to be a member of a "repented from acting" organization, especially as the countries hosting such conferences want to...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2001 to Friday, July 13, 2001
Veiled actresses considered cinema star Souad Hosni to have died a non-Muslim because she committed suicide. Therefore Muslims should not pray over her body. Some went as far as claiming she should not be buried in a Muslim graveyard.
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2001 to Friday, July 13, 2001
Sheikh Amr Khalid, an AUC [American University in Cairo] graduate, who now preaches in Al-Maghfira mosque in Agouza began his activities by preaching in homes. He then moved to preaching in mosques, and even on television. The national press distributes his tapes with their publications. Thousands...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2001 to Friday, July 13, 2001
Egyptian television did well when it started airing "who is going to be a millionaire?" The program is good entertainment and has a good message, that is deceit and luck cannot be used to win. Only knowledge is required.