Date of source: Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party and its parent organization Salafī Da’wah (Call) Movement launched a campaign to raise awareness of citizens on the importance of voting in favor of the draft constitution in a referendum that would take place soon and refutation of criticism against articles in the...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, launched yesterday a new initiative to reunite the political powers and end the state of division among the political parties and their polarizing the Egyptian street after it was announced that the referendum over the draft constitution is scheduled...
Date of source: Monday, December 3, 2012
"Our dead in Paradise and their dead in fire!"; "remnants (of the ousted regime), hired (thugs), and enemies of Islam and the Revolution!" These were the words of hostility with which Islamist movements and parties, such as al-Nahdah Party, mostly supporters of President Muhammad Mursī, attacked...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Salafists threatened to “use force and offer sacrifices” for the sake of enforcing the Islamic sharī ʿah as a leading member of the Salafī Jihādī group said in his blog, addressing the “kāfir (infidel) Egyptian government,” that “You worship the constitution while we worship God Almighty…You will...
Date of source: Thursday, November 22, 2012
Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Tayyib led a high-ranking delegation to visit Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawāḍrūs II at the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-ʿAbbāssīyah to offer congratulations to the new patriarch over his investiture.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Tayyib said commitment the teachings of heavenly religions should help solve major problems facing humanity in this age.
Date of source: Monday, November 19, 2012
Islamist activists in Salafī forums lashed out at Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, Deputy Chairman of the Salafī Daʿwah [Call] Movement, over a published photograph showing him hugging Bishop Būla of Ṭanṭā that some have even accused Burhāmī of loyalty to Copts.
Date of source: Sunday, November 18, 2012
Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, deputy chairman of the Salafī Daʿwa (Call), severely criticized the church’s representatives on the panel and others who threatened to quit, adding they seek their own interests and do not care about accordance.
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī on Friday (Nov. 8) issued a presidential decree appointing Bishop Tawadrus as Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark as the decree was received by acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius. [‘Imād Khalīl, ‘Id ‘Abd al-Jawād, Rashā al...
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2012
The Salafī Front, in a statement on Sunday (October 28), refused to send a Coptic girl, who disappeared since late last month and has reportedly converted to Islam and married a Muslim young man, back to her family in Mersa Matrouh. [Mustafá Rahūmah, Sa’īd Hijāzī and Muhammad Bakhāt, al-Watan, Oct...