Date of source: Tuesday, November 6, 2001
Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi and the Muftī of Egypt asked Bin Laden to hand
himself over to save the Afghans from
the American war. al-Qaradawi said that Muslim and Christian
religious leaders could play an important role in
limiting the possibility of a conflict between Muslims
and Christians...
Date of source:
The British Home
Secretary declared
that the British government intends to enforce certain procedures to protect Muslims and to face
terrorism
in all its forms. He added that the government was examining draft laws stating that spreading racial
hostility is considered to be a criminal act.
Date of source:
Representatives
of the Islamic community in France filed a lawsuit against a French novelist for
writing a novel that defamed
Islam. The subject of the novel is Islām and sexual tourism in Thailand. It
contained very open attacks against
Islam, Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians.
Date of source:
Azhar
scholars rejected
Prof. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi’s Fatwá that allows a couple not able to bear children to
implant their zygote in the
womb of another woman. They announced him a deviant from true Islām. Bayoumi
said he is ready to turn from this
fatwa if any medical discovery proved that...
Date of source:
The efforts of
the Shaykh of the Azhar to dissolve the Azhar Scholars Front and
to turn it into "The benevolent
organization for helping the children of the workers in the Azhar," have succeeded.
The Supreme Court of
Administrative Justice ruled to dissolve the Front and to change both its...
Date of source:
The
Sheikh of Azhar’s withdrawal of his call to Muslims to visit the Aqs...
Date of source:
The Egyptian press exposed religious authorities’ and intellectuals’ points of view regarding the violent confrontations between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces; in his interview with al-Musawwar, the Shaykh of the Azhar condemned the Israeli trespassing of al-Aqsá mosque....
Date of source:
From his jail in the United States, Shaykh Omar Abdel
Rahman, the spiritual leader of al-
Gamaa’t al-Islāmīyah in Egypt, issued a controversial statement, in
which he withdrew his support for their initiative to
abandon violence. This initiative was originally
launched in July 1997.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2000 to Friday, June 9, 2000
Rose al-Youssef has taken upon
itself to confront two recent, suspicious, religion-related phenomena. One is the new breed of Shaykh
preaching in private
homes. The other is the hypocritical defense of Islām in the face of a wave of
offending literary works. There is now a
third phenomenon...
Date of source: Friday, October 27, 2006
Muftīī of the Republic, Dr.
‘Alī Jum‘ah, severely criticizes religious opinions proclaimed by non-specialists on
satellite channels and said these opinions, which should not be called fatwás, cause confusion amongst
Muslims. He urged society to adopt a common culture to confront these opinions.