Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2001
A British Catholic turned to Islam after 15 years of working in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. He founded an Islamist party in Britain. This party may be the only legal Islamist organization there.
Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2001
Book review of "Among the Copts" by our board member Revd. Dr. John Watson. Mostyn writes "the Anglican priest and Coptic specialist John Watson notes: ’The inevitable struggle between Copt and Muslim is always bubbling beneath the surface of national life.’ The Coptic Pope Shenouda’s demagogic...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
In one of its reports the Dutch intelligence attacked Islam and Muslims, living in Holland, accusing some Islamic figures of exporting terrorism to Holland through the Internet. It also accused them of being ready to launch war against the West and the Jews. Days ago, Holland issued a law to...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 10, 2001
No doubt there are some emigrant Copts who transgressed all limits in their extremism against Egyptian policy. No one can be considered a traitor, except when a court has ruled him as such. And no one can be considered an apostate except when he says this about himself. Accusing emigrant Copts and...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
The article is an interview with The Christian Egyptian billionaire, Onsi Sawirus, who was the only Egyptian the American magazine "Fortune" put in its list of the richest people in the world. Among many questions about his business and his company group, Orascom, he was asked his opinion of...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
This is not just an interview. It is an attempt to break the silence and conspiracy over Nasr Hamed Abu-Zeid being sent into exile. How long will Nasr Abu-Zeid remain in exile? Who has benefited from changing an intellectual and researcher into a "cultural refugee"? Why does his leaving Egypt now,...
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
A suspicious pamphlet from an unknown source asked for direct American intervention in Egypt’s affairs and for the American Marine forces to be stationed in Egypt to defend [American] foreign affairs here. It considered Copts as American subjects not as Egyptian citizens. It mentioned that churches...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Rafique Iscander, the head of the American Coptic Union, sent a letter to President Bush. In this letter he made the events in southern Sudan, the crimes of the civil war in Lebanon and the individual incidents that took place in Egypt appear similar. He wrote that in return for the aid Egypt...
Date of source: Saturday, April 7, 2001 to Friday, April 13, 2001
Contrary to what happened during Mubarak’s last visit to the USA, the majority of emigrant Copts came to greet Mubarak in a civilized way, asking him to order a resumption of the investigations into Al-Kosheh incidents. Rafique Iscander and Moheb Michael, head of the Soldiers of the Cross, were...
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, April 6, 2001
The raping of nuns has become a nightmare that disturbs the religious leaders in the Vatican since the seriousness of the problem and its spread, especially in Africa, was recognized. Some of the Catholic clergy use their spiritual and financial authority in order to get sexual services from the...