Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2001
In this article lawyer Montasser Al-Zayyat, the lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, recounts the story of the Jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan up to the terrorist’s operations, which were aimed against the people in charge and affecting the economy and security of Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, October 18, 2001
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd is upset about the media debate on Islam in the West. Abu Zayd rejects the view that Islam should be held responsible for extremist attacks. The political discourse as reflected in Western media did not mind its language. The media debate on Islam is getting more entrapped in the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 6, 2001 to Friday, October 12, 2001
The attacks of September 11 brought forth feelings of rage against everything that has to do with Islam. Wearing a veil is considered to be an explicit sign of Islam and its political attitude. The West has attacked the veil considering it a sign of Islam and its attitudes. The West’s attack on the...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 5, 2001
Directing wrongful accusations at Islam and linking it to terrorism has become an unsupportable and dangerous matter. Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi said that terrorism is the child of injustice, and injustice is the act of America, and as long as injustice exists, no one can prevent terrorism. Dr. Abdel...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2001
The article gives information about the geography and demography of Afghanistan and its economic indicators. This is in addition to a historical background that has to do with the Soviet occupation, the civil war and the Taliban government.
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2001
In China, Russia, Turkey and many of the countries of Middle Asia, Muslims are persecuted and killed in the name of fighting terrorism. The author observed that the danger that originated because of not giving terrorism the right definition opened the door to another threat, that is the threat of...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2001
The author stressed that individual or mass suicide is not a recent Arabic-Islamic invention and that those who carried out the attacks in America were not necessarily Arabs or Muslims because American agents are only outnumbered by those who hate America’s arrogance.
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2001
The author expressed her surprise at the fact that while the image of Arabs and Muslims is deformed in the Western media, the Arab ministers of information are still at the stage of preparing a media plan to face this. She believed that there should be a unified Arabic media mechanism through which...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
The author expressed his surprise at the fact that while Arabs and Muslims condemn the West’s tendency to accuse all Muslims and Arabs of being criminals once an Arab and or a Muslim commits a crime, they behaved as if they had been accused and hurried to apologize for something they had not done.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
The news of the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the talk of the day in Egypt. I have not interviewed any people but just took notes when people were speaking about the attacks. These notes are given here.