Date of source: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
The author reports on a meeting convened by the Egyptian Interior Ministry to discuss ways
to prevent possible terrorist operations and notes parallel developments concerning members of alleged terrorist
groups.
Date of source: Thursday, July 20, 2006
Sources within the "banned" Jihād group have recently revealed that the group is currently considering a non-violence initiative, in response to repeated calls from former leaders of the group to reject violence, Ahmad Imbābī writes. Unlike al-Jamā‘ah al -Islāmīya, the Jihād group has no "...
Date of source: Saturday, September 30, 2006
Drs Hulsman analyses the lecture of Pope Benedict, noting that the text showed that his lecture was unfortunate but the translation made it even worse. The report notes several translation mistakes from the original German text to English. The Arabic texts were then translations of the English....
Date of source: Friday, July 14, 2006
An Azhar scholar, Dr. Ra’fat ‘Uthmān, denies
Israeli
newspaper Maariv reports that he issued a fatwá on the impermissibility of Palestinian
martyrdom
operations and that such perpetrators would end up in hell.
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
The review takes up varied opinion
articles in the Egyptian and Arab press about the statements of Pope Benedict XVI of the Roman Catholic
Church in
which he purportedly attacked Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in a lecture he gave in a German
university.
Date of source: Friday, September 15, 2006
A review of the
statements made in response to statements made by Pope Benedict XVI of the Vatican in Germany
which sparked
anger from many Arab and Islamic countries as well as from Muslim communities in Europe. Calls were
made for
a clear official apology.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Dr Hulsman analyses the lecture of Pope Benedict, noting that the text showed that his lecture was unfortunate but the translation made it even worse. The report notes several translation mistakes from the original German text to English. The Arabic texts were then translations of the English....
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2006
With the growth of home-grown terrorism in Europe and in Canada, scholars and experts discuss the reasons why some Muslims in Western societies seem to be drawn to terrorism.
Date of source: Friday, June 16, 2006
‘Amr Khālid, the
social reformer as he prefers to call himself, is a new
product of the interaction between Islamization,
globalization and privatization. Patrick Hinny scrutinizes the
phenomenal reformer who has become widely
popular around the Arab and Muslim world.
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
Veteran journalist Muhammad Hasanayn Haykal
speaks on
Al-Jazeera channel about his experiences with the Muslim Brotherhood and his meeting with the
founder and leader of
the group, as well as commenting on the group’s illicit activities, such as the
assassination of Egypt’s
Prime Minister al-...