Date of source: Friday, June 16, 2006
The author
tackles the recent myths and juggleries in Islamic discourse which deform the Islamic image before the
world,
urging the Azhar to deal with this serious problem.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Islamic thinker Jamāl al-Bannā said in this interview with Ākhir Sā‘a magazine that there is nothing in Islam called hadd al-ridda, which he deems as harmful to the tolerance and freedom of Islam, asserting that keeping the power of thought defunct will have unfavorable results.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Muslim
scholars as well as the public follow the teachings of al-
Salaf whether right or wrong without
thinking - even if they are inconsistent with their interests or
contradict with the Qur’ān and the
Sunna which led to a mental inertia and moral
corruption.
Date of source: Thursday, June 8, 2006
Ahmad Gharīb and Walīd ‘Urābī claim that Israel has started to propagate the beliefs of an Islamic sect called al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya al-Ahmadīya [Reviewer: The Ahmadī Islamic group], which they describe as a deviant Islamic group that knows nothing about Islam, in an attempt to distort the image of...
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
A controversial article on the growing Islamization of Egypt and the effect this has on the Coptic community.
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2006
The author, Abdullah Bin Bayyuh, discusses the main points
concerning the life of Muslims
in non-Muslim countries, in light of his participation in a conference held in
London about this issue.
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Well-known
Egyptian feminist writer, Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī and her daughter,
Muna Hilmi,
otherwise known as Muna Nawal Hilmī,
have sparked heated controversy over their
recent
statements,
in which they argued that a child should take his/her mother’s name,
thus
contradicting Islamic shari‘a...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The article praises a court ruling repealing a previous ruling that gave
Egypt’s nearly 1000
Bahā’īs the right to have their faith registered in official documents, with
opinions by
intellectuals that Bahā’ism is not a religion and that the only religions recognized in Egypt
are the
divine...
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Hānī Labīb criticizes Dr. Muhammad
‘Imāra’s recent
statement on the reasons behind sectarian sedition in Egypt. According to
Labīb, Dr.
‘Imāra blamed Pope Shenouda III for the tension between Muslims and Christians
in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The article deals with the ideologies of a group of Muslims who call themselves "the Qur’ānites" who believe only in the Qur’ān and deny the sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] altogether.