Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
A group of scholars and intellectuals traveled last week to Europe in order to “improve the image of Islam and Muslims” in Western public opinion. The program aims at eliminating mistaken ideas about Islam. This coincided with an agreement taken by a number of Muslim businessmen in Canada and the U...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
On June 1, 2004, Al-Jazeera satellite channel broadcast a discussion between Mustafa Tayseeritsh, the Mufti of Bosnia, and the head of the Tanweer Islamic Center in Cairo, Abu Islam Ahmad Abdullah. The discussion centered on the benefits of dialogue between religions. Abu Islam was the symbol of...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
A group of Islamic scholars and representatives of other religions held a meeting in Geneva, under the auspices of the Ta’arof [Acquaintance] Institution and the Qortoba Institution, to lay the foundations of dialogue between religions based on transparency. The symposium, attended by Islamic...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 2004
Hani Labib, a Coptic intellectual, wrote a book called “Citizenship and Globalization,” in which he asks the question of whether the nation would still remain a “nation” in the midst of globalization. In his book, he asks whether Copts accept Arabism, and he believes that their rejection of Arabism...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 2004
Moddather Arani, lawyer of the former imam of Finsburry Park, Abu Hamza Al-Masry, complained of harassment faced by her client at Belmarch prison. She said that six members of his family planned to visit him in prison yesterday for the first time since his arrest, but received a phone call from the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 2004
A group of scholars and intellectuals traveled last week to Europe in order to “improve the image of Islam and Muslims” in Western public opinion. The program aims at eliminating mistaken ideas about Islam. This coincided with an agreement taken by a number of Muslim businessmen in Canada and the U...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
To the CEO and the editor of Rose Al-Youssef,
In your magazine’s issue number 3965 issued on June 5, 2004, you published an article written by Mr. Karam Gabr titled “He holds a pistol in his hand with which he could harm anything in Egypt…who protects Saad Eddin Ibrahim.”
The article contained many...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Expatriate Copts usually fell among one of two groups: a majority who left Egypt in quest of a better life abroad, and a minority who left to escape bitter instances—usually with the authorities—at home. A ‘silent majority’ and a ‘loud-voiced minority’ then emerged and came to characterize the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Shabina Begoum, A 15-year old Bengali Muslim student living in Britain, said that the school prevented her from wearing a jelbab that covers her entire body except her hands and face. She said that her education has been affected and her human rights violated as a result of this decision. The...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 2004
Why did Saad Eddin Ibrahim recently travel to Turkey to attend a conference on security, globalization and the new religious discourse? The conference was sponsored by the NATO. Who invited him? The NATO or the US? Did any organization pay for his travel and accommodation expenses? Could Saad Eddin...