Date of source: Friday, August 20, 2004
We need to change our religious discourse in order to make it more compatible with the comprehensiveness of Islam. But America, in its current attack on Islam, wants to change Islam. We want to change with Islam and they want to change Islam. America’s problem with Islam is neither Islam’s...
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 2004
The outlines of the hostile image of Islam in Western culture, which has prevailed following the events of September 11, have three overlapping theoretical approaches.
The first approach is about the relationship between Islam on one hand and Christian and Jewish holy books on the other hand. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Every Egyptian who does not like something in this country finds no shame in threatening [the government] that he or she would demand the assistance of a foreign organization or government against his or her own country. Saad Eddin Ibrahim [Chairman of Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies]...
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 2004
The relationship between religion and the state is being strengthened in America. But why are they preaching what they do not do themselves? Why are they preaching secularism to the Islamic World when they are strengthening the relationship between religion and the state, which has been going for...
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
Zionism is attempting to destroy and blackmail Egyptian free press. I am saying so because of the hot battle that flared up between American Zionist organizations and myself. The cause of this battle is the article I wrote in Al-Liwaa Al-Islami about “The lie of the Holocaust.” American Zionist...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 2004
A scientific and practical rule in criminology says "Search for the beneficiary, and you will know the criminal " If we apply this rule and search for who will benefit from the disasters which take place all over the world, we will find that Israel is the only beneficiary from these disasters....
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
I wrote an article in which I criticized the group of takfir [accusation of unbelief]. Fahmy HewadiHuweidy wrote an article, published in Asharq Al-Awsat on August 18, 2004, in response to my article. In his response, Fahmy HewadiHuweidy appointed himself spokesman of the group of takfir and...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Last week I read an article by one of them published in Asharq Al-Awsat on August 9. The main idea of the article was based on imagining an Arab-Muslim person in a room with representatives of different religions and races. The author of the article raises the question: How would this Arab-Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 2004
An unknown Islamic group calling itself “The Supporters of Islamic Jihad” claimed responsibility for the fire that was set in a Jewish Center the day before yesterday.
Police found messages such as “death for Jews” on the walls of the center that had served as a synagogue in the past before it was...
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
I have some questions related to the administrative and financial side of the Coptic Orthodox Church and these questions have nothing to do with the faith or theology.
Coptic churches abroad suffer from many problems due to their expansion of church building in the absence of either a long-run...