Date of source: Saturday, July 20, 2002 to Friday, July 26, 2002
Rose Al-Youssef´s special file for this week covers many different subjects: Terrorists and Islamists living in Britain, Sheikh Amr Khaled´s way of preaching, Islam and politics, the role men of religion can play to build up societies and the issue of hijab in Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, June 22, 2002 to Friday, June 28, 2002
Rose El-Youssef created a special file on extremism and terrorism. The file discusses cassette tapes that degrade women in Egyptian society, the fact that some lawyers looking for fame collaborate with extremists, that some scholars oppose scholarly development and that terrorists have turned to...
Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2002
Because of the criticism in the Egyptian press on Coptic migrants we continued our overview of contributions on the Copts Daily Digest (see for the first overview RNSAW, 2002, week 14A, art. 11). Many responses in the Digest are strongly polarizing.
Date of source: Thursday, March 14, 2002
One of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya is titled “The Illegality of Extremism in Religion and of Charging Muslims With Kufr [unbelief].” In it, the leaders of the Gama´at consider charging Muslims with kufr an illegal act. They cited many Qur´anic verses and hadiths to...
Date of source: Friday, March 15, 2002
The article explains the meaning of kufr [unbelief] and kufar [unbelievers] as mentioned in the Qur´an. It tells that the word kufr has a dogmatic and a linguistic meaning and that there is no verse in the Qur´an that orders the killing of kufar. All the Qur´anic verses delay the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 2, 2002
The leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya expressed their complete agreement to end the actions to kill. They affirmed that their mistakes in the past came as a result of a false Ijtihad. In this article they explain the legal basis behind their renunciation of violence and reconsideration of old...
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2002 to Friday, February 22, 2002
A Saudi judge called for the hadd punishment* of a Tunisian singer because she allegedly compared herself to the Prophet. Some Arab countries demanded the execution of another singer as it was said that she named her dog after one of the prophets. A third singer was imprisoned as he was charged...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Dr. Milad Hanna (77), a much respected Coptic thinker and politician in Egypt who was awarded the UNESCO Simon Bolivar prize for his efforts in intercultural dialogue, was severely attacked by some Coptic activists in the Copts Daily Digest after his visit with Dr. Kamal Abul-Magd to Washington DC...
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2002
Some of the imprisoned leaders of the Islamic groups compiled four books in which they renounced their old extremist ideologies concerning accusing society and rulers of kufr [unbelief]. They also come to disapprove of killing the innocent people and consider that Copts are under the protection of...
Date of source: Saturday, January 12, 2002
The message the unknown woman sent to Ibrahim Sa´ada reminded the author of another message sent by a Saudi woman to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. The article gives excerpts of this message, which criticizes the religious education Muslim children receive at schools. This education system, in...