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13. At last...Copts abandon their passivity
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
I gladly received an invitation for a very special seminar, where I was informed of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services’ (CEOSS) activities in promoting the concept of accepting the other and coexisting with all citizens. The ‘others are people who are different in religion, in...
6. Two sides of the coin
Date of source: Sunday, December 1, 2002
Muslim intellectual Sayyed Al-Qimni believes that considering Islam as the official religion of the State implies the existence of other informal religions, a situation which signifies the exclusion from all citizenship rights of holders of other religions. Whenever a sectarian problem arises,...
7. Researcher of demons and devils publishes a paper harmful to national unity
Date of source: Monday, August 21, 2000
While we are all trying to identify our citizenship values, an evil researcher, Abu Islam Ahmed Abdallah, has come up with an inciting, irresponsible paper, which is extremely sectarian and is entitled "the rights of Coptic Muslims in Egypt".
14. We wish Muslims became Ahl Al-Dhimma in non-Muslim countries
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2000
"No compulsion is there in religion" is a rule which Islam has set, respecting other heavenly religions [Judaism and Christianity]. It has even set rules of Shari’a concerning dealing with followers of other heavenly beliefs...
16. The Rumor of Islam’s Invasion of Egypt was perpetrated by the Crusaders
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 1999
Dr. Mustafa Al-Shakma in an interview with Atef Abdel-Ghany, talks about the forthcoming celebrations of the fourteen-hundredth anniversary of Egypt’s entry into the Islamic world. He insists that the people of Egypt were not forced to adopt Islam after its Fath [opening up of the land by Muslims...
2. Dr. Selim Al-Awa in his special interview: The Khilafa system is not inspiredSubtitle: My Belief: Egypt is a Muslim country... Its Right-doing is a lot, and its Wrong-doing is little
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 1999
Dr. Mohammed Selim Al-Awa is an Islamic thinker and well-known law professor. In this continuation article of an interview of him he expresses his opinions on Shura and democracy, Khilafa (the Caliphate), different schools of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and the issue of non-Muslim minorities in...
6. The Ibn Khaldoun project provokes a scholastic brawl
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 16, 1999
A series of educational books recently published by the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development have raised some eyebrows and triggered a crisis in the Ministry of Education, among religious scholars and more recently [have] drawn angry protests from the People’s Assembly.
4. This Religious Syllabus Raises Serious Questions
Date of source: Friday, June 11, 1999
The author of the article asks why the syllabus proposed by the Ibn Khaldoun Institute tries to persuade pupils that the Prophet erred and opposes claims that Mosque speakers incite Muslims against Christians.
15. In a conversation with the American orientalist John Esposito: Al-Azhar Sheikh: In Egypt, all are equal before the law... However, the responsibility of faiths is left for God the Exalted One
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 1999 to Friday, May 7, 1999
Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, Al-Azhar Sheikh, in his conversation with Professor John Esposito, an visiting American orientalist, affirmed that in Egypt the relationship between Muslims and Copts is a relationship of one nation and all that are equal in their rights and obligations.
21. In the "National Role of the Egyptian Church Throughout the Ages Symposium: Egyptian Copts Stood up Against Attempts of Discrimination Between Muslims and the Copts"
Date of source: Tuesday, April 20, 1999
Teachers of history in Egyptian universities affirmed the prominent role played by the Coptic Church in national liberation movements.

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