Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Chirac sees that his country has five million Muslims trying to congregate to remain in
isolation and reject France’s culture. What Chirac wants, as he read in his statement, is to
“prevent [groups from] clinging onto their affiliation to [their] groups that might threaten the
society by [these...
Date of source: Thursday, February 19, 2004
No political philosophical invention has ever hit its target better
than the misleading idea of anti-Semitism. Theodore Herzl used the term to make Jews all over the
world feel that they were targeted and that they were surrounded with hostile dangers. This was a
pressure point on Jews, which...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Are all those who criticize Israel anti-Semitic?
Could someone be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic? Is Europe once more anti-Semitic? What
about anti-Semitism in the Arab world? All these questions were posed and discussed by eminent
Israeli writer and thinker Uri Avneri.
Is Europe anti-...
Date of source: Thursday, February 26, 2004
A new [political] party that rejects Islam and Arabism submitted
its papers last week to the committee of party affairs [affiliated to the Shura Council]. This
party asks for the modification of the Egyptian constitution to remove the Islamic Shari’a as the
primary legislative source of the...
Date of source: Saturday, February 21, 2004
French-Cameroonian comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala
resorted to the streets to present some comic sketches after he was accused of being anti-Semitic
and accordingly ordered to stop the show he was presenting at Olympia Theater.
Date of source: Monday, February 23, 2004
The Jewish- European Conference held on 19 February 2004, which was not adequately covered by Arab media, was one of the most serious conferences that were held during the past few years. This conference gave credibility to Jewish claims that anti-Semitism has increased in Europe during the...
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 2004
Khaled El Guindi dealt with story of the sheikh who allegedly seduced monaqabate [Muslim
women wearing a niqab] in two completely contradicting approaches. He told me that he was furious
over what the sheikh did. But he changed his words when he was faced with an audience and
readers: He...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Al-Naba’ [newspaper] claimed that it had interviewed sheikh Muhammad Gebril. This sheikh stated that he is the television preacher who was unnamed in the press, allegedly seducing women and that he does not know the woman he allegedly seduced. Sheikh Muhammad Gebril published an article in Al-Ahram...
Date of source: Sunday, February 22, 2004
The interview with Benny Morris, a professor of history at Ben Gurion University, in Ha'aretz newspaper raised endless reactions among Israelis and Palestinians alike. Actually, whoever has been following what Morris writes or says will not have been shocked by his recent interview. He says that he...
Date of source: Saturday, February 28, 2004
A special
version of the book containing the Gnostic scriptures was released in the United States in
English, translated from Coptic in 1977. Later a public version was released in 1981 under the
name of “Nag Hammadi library.” The book contains 47 pieces including a paper by Plato. The...