Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union (EU) studied a paper discussing ways to enter into dialogue with Islamist opposition groups in the Middle East region that were described as “moderate."
Date of source: Saturday, April 16, 2005
One of the wrong concepts that marred the relationship between the Islamic and Western worlds is its depiction as one of a ceaseless series of wars and conflicts; some Muslim and Western theoreticians cite the Crusades in this regard.
Date of source: Friday, April 15, 2005
The Ministry of Endowments is
arranging to send scholars to France and then to Germany to project the image of Islam. The scholars were selected amongst
the most qualified, so as to ensure that they have the cultural and scientific capacity to address the Western mind.
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
I have once warned about foreign authorities that
want to mess with the security of Egypt. The allegations about persecuting the Copts is their winning card in their battle
against Egypt to twist the truth and shake the stability of the nation that has lived in peace and love for ages.
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: 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: Thursday, April 14, 2005
In
the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack on the United States, Saudi Arabia was violently attacked in the US mass
media, presuming some relationship between terrorism, Islam and Saudi Arabia.