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Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Sout Al-Umma published an article about raping 400,000 Christian girls and forcing them to convert to Islam, with the aim of disclosing the lies of emigrant Copts. No one objected although the number was huge. The paper thought that the news about the 70,000 Copts forging police reports to get...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
Michael Meunier, the maintainer of the Copts Daily Digest placed the link of an article of Mohammed Salmawy, editor-in-chief of the Al-Ahram Hebdo and chairman of the Arab Defense League, on the Digest he found Salmawy subtly criticized president Mubarak for blaming the Copts outside of Egypt for...
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2001
Coptic writer Sadeq Aziz expressed the opinion that the Islamic Shari’a does not contradict Christianity and that most of what it contains agrees with Moses’ law. He added that Christianity does not have any positive laws and that the teachings of Jesus Christ cannot be applied as laws governing a...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
The Copts Daily Digest published on July 8 an attack of Dr. Raafat Labeeb on an article of Mustafa Mahmoud in Al-Ahram a day earlier. Dr. Mahmoud wrote in that article that the Torah mentions nothing about the afterlife because Jewish rabbis had deleted everything from the original text to that...
Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2001
The author believes that this crisis was engineered as a way for outside bodies to become involved in Egypt’s internal affairs. He questions the aims behind publishing the article and the timing. He claims it was not an attack on Copts but on the whole of Egypt and national unity.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 30, 2001
The author believes that Jews give wrong information [about the religious situation in Egypt] and incite the international opinion in this way. They also use Coptic immigrants for the defense of something that does not exist. She asks Coptic immigrants to be aware of their deception.
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
U.S. Copts Association reported three months ago that a church was destroyed in the bishopric of H.G. Bishop Marcos. The destruction was followed by a presidential order to rebuild the church immediately. Yet, three months later, a press release of the U.S. Copts Association states, the governor of...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2001
[RNSAW: Michael Meunier, president of the US Copts Association, only refers to the objections of Commissioner Nina Shea of the Freedom House to the report. He is obviously disappointed that all his activism did not produce the results he had wished.]
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Dr. John Watson, a consultant to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Coptic affairs, said that there are very few people, in the West, who know a lot about Islam. People in the West usually say that al-Islambuli murdered Sadat and that sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman is Islam. Dr. Watson said he taught...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2001
Meunier is obviously not happy with the request of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Beni Suef to stop his campaign for Fayza. He makes one threat after the other. His correspondence is provided here.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.