Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2012
A group of Salafī young men launched an initiative called Salafists for the Guarding of Churches through coordination among Islamist groups and parties, security agencies and church officials. [Author not mentioned, Al-Jumhūrīyah, Jan. 4, p. 3]
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The church’s insistence on the invitations it has sent to SCAF members and Islamists on one hand and calls by the opposition to stage protests off the cathedral on January 5-8 on the other are putting both sides on the horns of a dilemma, reads an opinion article in al-Ahrām daily.
Many Coptic...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2012
However, the Maspero Youth Union announced it will boycott the Christmas celebrations at the cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah in reactions to the church’s invitations for the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafīs and leaders of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to attend the...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Meanwhile, Maj. General Ahmad Sālim al-Nāghī, Director of al-Qalyubia security Department, said security agencies did not spot any assaults on stores in the governorate’s capital Banhā or any smashing of Christmas trees outside churches.
“Conditions on the streets are very normal and nothing that...
Date of source: Sunday, January 1, 2012
Islam criminalizes attacks on churches and non-Muslim houses of worship as Islamists, namely the Muslim Brotherhood and a number of Salafī parties, volunteered to protect churches during the New Year celebrations. [Dīyā' Abū al-Safā, Akhbār al-Yawm, p. 7, Jan. 1]
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2016
Dr. Muḥammad Mūkhtār Jumʿah, Minister of Awqaf, denied recent reports that the Salafist Jihadist group affiliated with the terrorist group “Bayt al-Maqdis” took over 3,000 mosques in Egypt. These mosques allegedly included mosques in Mansoura, Marsa Matruh and Kafr El-Sheikh, as well as Faysal and...
Date of source: Friday, April 22, 2016
An intense dispute erupted between the Awqaf Directorate of Al-Gharbiyya and the Salafist Daʿwah over the control of Al- Tawḥīd Wa al-Nūr Mosque at Ṣanadīd village in Tanta city.
Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2016
The Salafī daʿwa and independent preachers continued their control over Awqaf mosques, as they stepped up their publicity and posters propagating their sermons and Friday prayer orations in an attempt to expand in mosques; under the dominion of the Ministry of Endowmnents (Awqaf), without obtaining...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Mahmūd Lūṭfi ʿAmer, a former Salafi Preacher, explained that his fatwa for the demolition of the Conservatory had been misunderstood and put out of context.
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Interviewers: Quinta Smit, Eline Kasanwidjojo, Aidan Mascarenhas-Keyes
Language of interview: English (original intverview), English (presented transcript)
Transcript: Quinta Smit
Approval: Requested and no objection received
Dr. Nadia Muṣṭafā works at the Institute of Progressive Civil Studies...