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Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2004
The visit of the American Commission on Religious Freedom to Egypt is this time done under the pretext of investigating the conditions of Baha’is, Jehovah Witnesses and the banned group of the Muslim Brotherhood. The American Commission claims that these groups are persecuted. Remarkably strange,...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
American sources revealed that the Commission on Religious Freedom visiting Egypt currently, received a complaint from an Egyptian group calling itself “Egyptian Qur’aniyeen." This group demands that the Prophetic Hadiths be abolished and no longer taught in schools. A member of the committee, who...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Coptic sources expected Pope Shenouda would change his stance and agree to meet with members of the committee. Dr. Mustafa Al-Fiqi, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the People’s Assembly, stated that the [American] committee would not discuss issues related to Egyptian domestic affairs. Al-...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, stressed that Egyptians, Muslims and
Christian, are associated in a relationship of partnership in businesses and governmental
organizations. Dr. Tantawi made this statement during his reception of the American Commission on
Religious...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2004
In the three reports issued by the Commission on Religious Freedom
about Egypt from 2000 to 2002, Egypt was placed in the third category. These reports noted an
improvement in the [Egyptian government’s] respect for religious freedoms. These reports were
basically focused on Copts. Reports...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 2004
It seems that the US Commission on International Religious Freedom must have issued
its report on religious discrimination between Muslims and Copts in Egypt months before its
visit. The report claims that the Egyptian mass media is too lazy and not qualified enough to
cover the religious...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2004
Lord
Cromer, the British High Commissioner during the British occupation of Egypt. wanted to deal
with Egyptians as different ethnic and religious groups and not as a united national community.
Cromer left Egypt and Egypt was librated from occupation but others did not learn the lesson and...
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
Last Friday night, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom arrived in Cairo in a secretive atmosphere. The Commission delivered a brief statement concerning the objectives of the visit, which takes place between July 16 and July 23. The Commission is paving the way for the...
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 2004
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal
Rights organized, last Thursday, a press conference in which it announced the release of a report
titled “Freedom of belief and Shiites’ issues in Egypt.” This report describes the crackdowns on
Shiites in Egypt from December 2003 till March 2004.The report...
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
America is interfering in the affairs of others with all possible
means. The latest attempt was the visit of a fact-finding delegation of the US Commission on
International Religious Freedom to Egypt. The US delegation was comprised of nine commissioners,
including its Jewish head. Four of the...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.