Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
Last Wednesday, the Human Rights and Democracy Office, affiliated with the US Department of State released the International Religious Freedom Report of 2004. The report includes 13 pages about Egypt. We are publishing [an Arabic translation of] the text of the report.
Date of source: Friday, September 10, 2004
When the Prophet created the first Islamic state, he was cautious to set up civil structures with a religious core for this state. The authority of the Prophet was a civil authority with civil institutions. So, the government of the Prophet was a civil government that protected the right of any...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 2004
This report presents the interviews with nineteen people, 18 Egyptians and one American researcher about the importance of the work of Arab-West Report, people of different backgrounds, Muslims and Christians, clergy and non-clergy, including scholars and human rights lawyers. Christian...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
The prominent preacher Dr. Al-Ahmadi Abu Al-Nour, former Egyptian Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments] stressed that Muslims are the enemies of no one and that over the course of history Muslims have maintained a policy of co-existence and dialogue with ‘others’ [non-Muslims]. Abu Al-Nour said...
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 2004
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom demanded that Egypt should financially compensate Egyptian Jews who immigrated to the US for the loss of their possessions and money. But this very same committee has ignored Egypt’s demands to reopen the investigations concerning the killing and...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 2004
Dr. Rifa’at Sayyed Ahmad, director of the Jaffa Center for Research, has been again accused of anti-Semitism after he published two articles in Al-Liwaa Al-Islami. The two articles were titled “The lie about burning the Jews” As a result of pressure from American and Israeli sources, Muhammad Al-...
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: Saturday, September 21, 2002
[The article of Muhammad Shebl in October, September 15, resulted in an article in the Dutch Daily Trouw] While Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch political scientist of Somali origin, received death threats because of her untraditional convictions about Islam, Egyptians discuss freedom of religion. This is...
Date of source: Monday, November 11, 2002
As usual, the report of the US Secretary of States for religious freedom in Egypt this year accuses Egypt of exercising religious persecution against the Christian minority. The US Secretary of State depends on emigrant Copts in writing its reports. Emigrant Copts have relations with organizations...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 2, 2003
The writer gives a brief comment on an article written by Abdel-Latif Abdel-Karim titled “The Azhar’s expression of opinion is not the reason for the terrorism and tourism crisis,” Al-Qahera, August 26, 2003. In this article Abdel-Latif Abdel-Karim comments on an article by Gamal Al-Banna: “For the...