Date of source: Friday, February 25, 2005
Umāra opposes Western efforts to make Islam accept Western modernism and secularism, including the separation of religion and state.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
A symposium organized by Watanī newspaper, at the Qinā governorate city of Najc Hammādī, called for the reinforcement to the core of citizenship by encouraging co-existence, creation of common shared activities that would serve to bring together all Egyptians and requiring youth to practice their...
Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2005
Referring to Fukuyama’s article Their Target: The Modern World, in which he concluded that Muslims are against religious tolerance and secularism, I would like to forewarn of the consequences of confusing the ‘modernization of Islam’ with the ‘Western secular modernity’, which the West imposes on...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 4, 2005
In an interview with Al-Qahira newspaper, Dr. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Musayyarī, an eminent Muslim scholar, reveals his thoughts on separating religion from government.
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2001
Francis Fukuyama wrote an article in the Arabic edition of Newsweek. In that article he analyzed the current events in light of the relationship between the West and Muslim world. He considered Islamic fundamentalism an enemy to the West worse than communism. He also said that the struggle was...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Islam agrees with secularism in that it does not acknowledge the theological state and in granting life and man’s activities in life their rights. In Europe where the values of Christianity are opposite to the values of secularism, there has been a kind of controversial interaction between...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 11, 2001
Misunderstanding the nature of the Islamic authority and judging Islam in the light of what happened to Christianity are the two reasons behind misunderstanding the relationship between Islam and secularism. Acknowledging the freedom of belief and thought, refusing the idea of the religious...
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2001
In this article Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi speaks about Islam and secularism, the weakness and disunity among Muslims, the Muslims’ aggression towards the West, the violence of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and the responsibility of the preachers, thinkers and the governments towards correcting the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2001
Mahgoub Omar, who is known for being a writer specialized on the Palestinian issue, is a Christian Orthodox doctor. He believes that Islam should be the reference point for the whole nation, as it is Islamic in the first place and because if Islam is the reference point for both Muslims and...
Date of source: Monday, May 7, 2001
The conference of "The Right of Expression" witnessed great controversies among intellectuals and men of law concerning the ideas Salah Eissa, the Editor-in-chief of Al-Qahira Magazine, introduced. He introduced ideas pertaining to religious and national constant principles and some other opinions...