Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2001
The first school in Europe for Islamic art and mass communication was opened in Rotterdam. The new school will accept non-Muslim students for the first time in an Islamic school. The president of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic University said that for the university to be able to correct the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2001
One of the members of the military wing of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya surrendered himself to the police after hiding for seven years. He confessed that he knew nothing about religious matters, yet he was chosen for the military wing because he was well built.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
The author tried to imagine what the late Christian writer Louis Awad would have said about Al-Nabaa crisis if he had been alive. He believes that all the great enlightened writings of Awad shared the Coptic and Muslim voices in its condemnation of Al-Nabaa conspiracy against national unity.
Date of source: Sunday, July 22, 2001
The writer of "The Philosophy of War in the Israeli Religious Thinking" gives many examples to prove that old myths penetrated the stories of the Torah [the Old Testament]. The author refuted the examples he cited. He tried to prove through the Qur’an that the Bible is the word of God, which cannot...
Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2001
The relationship between Christians and Muslims has been through ups and downs depending on the character of the governor, but in Mubarak’s time, national unity has flourished. Still, little groups of prejudiced Muslims and Christians spoil the good relationship that national unity is built upon.
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
The Palestinian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah was accused of defaming Islam by using the Invocation [i.e. saying in the name of... which is associated in people’s minds with "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful"] as a title for his recent anthology, "In the Name of the Mother, the Son,"...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2001
The author expressed his support to Pope Shenouda in urging the government to put legal restrictions on the use of priests and monks uniforms, because unlike the Muslim sheikhs, they have spiritual authority over their followers.
Date of source: Friday, July 13, 2001
The author received many letters comparing the story Al-Nabaa published about the expelled monk and the contents of "A banquet for Seaweed," "The Formation Period" and "Yathrib Community," which are believed to disdain Islam. His conclusion was that the law prohibits scorning religions and that is...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2001
The author commented on Tareq Al-Bishri’s article, in which he compared the attitude of the State towards the Coptic youth demonstrations against what Al-Nabaa published to the Azhar students’ demonstrations against the publication of the "Banquet for Seaweed." He believes that the State was very...
Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2001
Salah Sileem expressed the opinion that the political aim of the powerful countries was to weaken Egypt as a political entity and that imperialistic organizations had penetrated civil society through the Masonic groups and organizations that are pro normalization [of relations with Israel]. Gamal...