Date of source: Friday, June 2, 2006
The article tackles a symposium organized by MENA, the Egyptian official
news agency, about
Muslim-Coptic coexistence in Egypt. Participants called for sustaining citizenship, away
from any religious
sentiments and blamed the religious institutions for their negligence in this regard.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The article praises a court ruling repealing a previous ruling that gave
Egypt’s nearly 1000
Bahā’īs the right to have their faith registered in official documents, with
opinions by
intellectuals that Bahā’ism is not a religion and that the only religions recognized in Egypt
are the
divine...
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The article deals with Bahā’ism in Egypt and the attempts by the followers of this faith to obtain official recognition, particularly in light of a recent court ruling holding that the Ministry of Interior ministry should grant them identity cards in which their religion is registered.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The article deals with the ideologies of a group of Muslims who call themselves "the Qur’ānites" who believe only in the Qur’ān and deny the sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] altogether.
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2006
The
increasing influence of religion in Syrian society is the result of the
failure of the secular regime to implant
its ideology in the minds of the people, member of the secular
Ba‘th Party, Mus‘ab al
-Jindī, says.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The
author speaks in this article about a
religious revival in Germany and the relationship between the
secularist society there and religious
institutions.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 16, 2006
The
Orthodox
Church refuses liberalism although it is the only way for Christians to be saved from religious
fanaticism. The
Orthodox churches sermons fail to call for tolerance, making Christians even more
isolated.
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
The
court ruling previously pronounced by a lower administrative court giving Bahā’īs the rights to
state their religion in official documents is overturned by the Supreme Administrative Court.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The author examines the question of how to ensure that democracy in Middle Eastern countries does not come at the expense of secularism, personal freedoms, and equal rights for women and minorities, given that both American policy-makers and most Arabs hold to the reductionist view that democracy...
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006
The author criticizes the tug-of-war between the
Muslim Brotherhood deputies and those of
the NDP inside parliament over trivial issues. Instead, he argues that
they should unify their ranks as
Egyptians in the face of terrorism, which is gnawing at the country’s
significant source of income...