Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
Serious problems of discrimination, fanaticism and human rights violations against religious minorities and some non-pious Muslims are still marring Egypt, according to the US International Religious Freedoms Commission report about Egypt for the year 2005.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
In a patriotic, courageous initiative, MP Mohamed Gweily, head of the Complaint and Suggestions Committee of the People’s Assembly, proposed a unified draft law to govern the building, restoration, renovation, an maintenance of all places of worship in Egypt- Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. The draft...
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
President Mubārak signed a decree in 2003 for having unified procedures and licenses for the building of mosques and churches. This was a decision that was most welcomed by Copts who believed that their everlasting problem was finally coming to an end.
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
The whole thing about the building of churches still involves unfair and illogical aspects, but a number of Copts are now showing a degree of fanaticism.
Date of source: Monday, May 30, 2005
Minister of Awqāf, Mahmoud Hamdī Zaqzouq, reiterated statements that the spread of the niqāb [an all-covering veil for Muslim women showing only the eyes] is really a disaster for it conceals the identity of female terrorists.
Date of source: Friday, May 27, 2005
Ahmad Kamāl Abu al-Majd, deputy chairman of the National Council for Human Rights and former minister of information said in an interview that the reality of our Muslim nation is degrading due to the split, confusion and failure to show the true image of Islam to the outside world.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
With regard to the statement made by ‘Abboud al-Zumur about the Jihād group detainees being coerced to show their support to President Mubārak, Anwar ‘Abd al-‘Azīm ‘Ukāsha, a former leading member of the group, has refuted this claim in a statement. Al-Ahrām has received a copy of this statement.
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
Nabīl Na‘īm’s statement concerning dethroning ‘Abboud al-Zumur, leader of the Jihād Organization in Tura prison, from his position is raising many questions about the organization and its relations with the government.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Muhammad Mukhtār, muftī of the banned al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya and political refugee in England, says that he has nothing to do with fatwas concerning infidelity found on traditionalist websites, asserting that they are old and were published out of their historical context.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Muslim Brothers profited from their truce with Sādāt, known as the "game of interests," and penetrated into many Islamic groups using the group’s newspapers, like al-I‘tisām, as a venue for their views until Sādāt allowed them freedom to publish their own paper, al-dacwa.