Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2000
A large number of the Azhar scholars have expressed their disapproval of the visit of Dr. Sayyed Tantawi, Sheikh of Al-Azhar and Dr. Ahmed Omar Hashim, [Azhar] University president to occupied Palestine with an Israeli visa.
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 1999
Khilafa [the rule of a caliph, a successor of Mohammed who holds both worldly and religious responsibilities], the republic, monarchy; these are different forms of government systems. Which of them represents the Islamic system? Dr. Mohammed Selim Al-Awa, the Islamic thinker, expresses his...
Date of source: Friday, December 24, 1999
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The Israeli policy is aggressive and does not change. The people who carry out this policy are the only thing that changes
I reject normalization with Israel
I refused to participate in the Bethlehem 2000 Conference because I will not enter the Holy City while it is still partially...
Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 1999
A few days ago, President Mubarak sent the draft of the Procedure law in Personal Status law cases to the Shura Council to discuss it before forwarding it to the People’s Assembly. The draft of the new law which has been drawn up with careful consultation with various bodies, particularly the Al-...
Date of source: Friday, November 26, 1999
Plans are made to build a center for all three monotheistic religions in al-Tor, in the Sinai. The author, however, opposes building a synagogue out of fear the land later may be claimed by Israelis. The author is against normalization with Israel.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 1999
Israel concentrated its evil efforts to provoke sectarian strife among Palestinian Muslims and Christians in the city of Nazareth. The Israeli government allowed the construction of a mosque on 700 feddans near the Church of the Annunciation in the town.
Date of source: Friday, November 26, 1999
"We are not in need of assuring our belief in the heavenly books and all the stories mentioned in them. We believe in what the Holy Qur’an mentioned about the story of the Jews’ departure from Egypt and how they accompanied Moses to escape the tyranny of the pharaoh."
Date of source: Thursday, November 18, 1999
Israel’s Supreme Court ordered on November 14 that a huge shrine be removed from the grave site of Baruch Goldstein, the US-born Jewish settler who massacred 29 Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron in 1994.
Date of source: Saturday, November 20, 1999
Safwat Al-Bayadi, the head of the Protestant Church in Egypt says that only twenty percent of the members of the Protestant churches in Egypt believe that Christ will come at the end of this year. Dr. Rafiq Habib says that some people in the West use these ideas as a reason for supporting Israel....
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 1999
The construction of a mosque in Nazareth has not caused a crisis between the Vatican and Israel, which will "very warmly receive" Pope John Paul II next year, Israel’s envoy to the Holy See said on Friday.