Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
Tilwāna, in the
governorate of al-Minoufiya, one of Egypt’s impoverished villages with a population of 18,000 people, has out of the blue
turned into a military barrack.
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
The same old boring
story is repeated over and over again. Despite proven groundless and fabricated, many reiterate the serial of kidnapping
Christian girls in collusion with the State security apparatus.
Date of source: Saturday, April 16, 2005
The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy hammered out an ambitious plan to extend its message, issuing a six-volume encyclopedia on Islamic movements and embarking on a number of important research projects. Believing in the need to interact with all intellectual and political currents, the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 13, 2005
A Muslim
intellectual said that the provisions of Islam regulating the relationship between Muslims and the kitabīs [People of
the Book] should not function as a basis to rule that those kitabīs are disbelievers.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Many books and
articles have been written about Sayyid Qutb, not because he contributed to enriching the Salafist way of thinking, but
rather because he, despite his foggy vision, influenced all religious extremist movements.
Date of source: Sunday, April 17, 2005
It is obvious that the political Islamic tide—mainly the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement—is no longer content with the occasional show of power on street level, such as popular support for the Palestinian cause or against the American presence in Iraq. Instead, Islamists have clearly decided...
Date of source: Saturday, April 16, 2005
I have once asked a member of the Muslim
Brotherhood whether the group is planning to sweep the Egyptian Bar Association elections and secure both the chairman’s post
and the association’s council this time. He arrogantly answered that their winning of the elections is something taken for...
Date of source: Saturday, April 9, 2005
‘Alī ‘Ashmāwī joined the Muslim Brotherhood when he was 24 years of age. He became the last declared commander of the group’s armed militias, or what has been called the Special System. He was arrested in 1965,
imprisoned and released in 1974.
Date of source: Sunday, April 17, 2005
Some might say chances for other candidates
in the presidential elections are so meager, and chances for Copts to win are even less, so why waste time, effort and money
on something whose loss is as sure as death and taxes.
Date of source: Saturday, April 9, 2005
The issue of demonstrations was not on the
agenda of the four-day National Democratic Party (NDP)’s 4th session that included representatives of 15 parties. The meeting
saw a split as some parties were of the opinion that demonstrations give the impression of unrest and embolden foreign...