Date of source: Sunday, October 15, 2006
The author asserts that Islam
and Muslims are the enemy created by some western
circles, but Muslims are contributing to make the western
“imaginary” come true. He also notes that the war
against those who insult Islam has also targeted some Arab
intellectuals.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Coptic writer Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá
comments on the affirmation of the conviction conference that was held in Fayyūm a few days ago,
saying
that it aimed at judging the reformists who call for developing the church.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Portraying the role of Muslim orthodox Caliphs in drama has been forbidden before in
Egypt and other Arab
countries.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Salīm
al-‘Awa criticizes the
abilities of the Shaykh of al-Azhar in drawing up
fatwás, since he is not a specialist in Islamic
jurisprudence.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The author
contemplates the announcements of the Muslim
Brotherhood’s Mahdī ‘Ākif of dropping the
secret organisation and assesses its current
change in political discourse.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The Egyptian
muftī, Shaykh
‘Alī Jum‘ah, was severely slammed by a
number of Muslim scholars for his recent
fatwá, in which he permits mobile phone companies to
install their towers on mosque minarets.
Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2006
The Muftī of
Egypt, ‘Alī Jum‘ah,
rejects charges levelled against official religious figures that
they only serve the government’s point of
view and justifies his fatwá which does not advise wearing the
niqāb.
Date of source: Monday, October 2, 2006
Muhammad al-Bāz wonders whether Shaykh al-Qaradāwī really
deserved the humiliation and
insults that Moroccan clergy directed at him after his controversial fatwá
on bank interest.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The author argues that
the relationship between the Qur’ān and
science and the outdated books taught at some
Azhar schools are behind the backwardness of the Muslim
East.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Moroccan fundamentalists respond to al-Qaradāwī’s
fatwá on bank loans.