Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Christianity Today, a major US publication, published a highly distorted article on Christians in Egypt, making claims that are simply false or cannot be substantiated. Christianity Today based itself on material obtained from Operation World and other sources. Operation World admits they must have...
Date of source: Saturday, February 15, 2003
The article in Aqidati of January 28 seems to be intended to wipe up sentiments against Jews and Israel. There are plenty good reasons to criticize Israeli brutal policy towards the Palestinians but this article doesn´t do this but focuses on an aleged report to destroy Mecca and the Ka´ba and thus...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Sudanese and other African asylum seekers are suddenly detained in large numbers creating great fear in their community in Cairo. This policy is probably related to Egyptian economical difficulties and ordinary Egyptians seeing Sudanese as competitors on an increasingly tight labor market.
Date of source: Thursday, January 30, 2003
Eulogy of the German Orientalist Dr. Annemarie Schimmel, the most well-known voice in the West for the understanding between Islam and the West.
Date of source: Thursday, January 30, 2003
Al-Usbua´s reporting about US interference in Egyptian curricula is the result of polarization between US-government and Egyptian authors who no longer trust information of US government sources. These authors are basing their information on sources they trust but this may result in...
Date of source: Sunday, January 19, 2003
Interviews with a Christian judge and a protestant pastor on the issue of Khula’ in Christianity and the Personal Status Law for Christians.
Date of source: Saturday, January 18, 2003 to Friday, January 24, 2003
Ijtihad was a great door to freedom in the dawn of Islam. Each ijtihad should be connected to its age and should put the holy text in the service of the age and not the other way round. However, fiqh scholars laid down rules that made valid ijtihad an impossible task.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2003
The Minister of Interior says that the Brotherhood wants to have a political role in spite of everybody’s well-being and that the Al-Qai’da Network announced it has plans for specific goals. He adds that the police thwarted a plan of the Jihad group and the court ruling on this case will be made...
Date of source: Saturday, January 11, 2003 to Friday, January 17, 2003
Ijtihad is no longer bringing about new human opinions that consider the conditions and changes of life but is simply studying the opinions of the predecessors and try to discover rules in their work. Those rules have been turned into holy rules without which no ijtihad can be made. Such...
Date of source: Saturday, September 17, 2005
In the wake of July 7 blasts, the British government has published a list of practices it considers ‘unacceptable’ within the United Kingdom.