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Date of source: Thursday, November 7, 2002
The author believes that the case of Saad Eddin Ibrahim was created with the aim of limiting the activities of Egyptian human rights and civil organizations. He believes that accusations in the case were randomly directed and that many persons were excluded.
Date of source: Sunday, October 20, 2002
Criticism of the Egyptian national press. Blaming they only reported the positive elements of the U.S. State Department report on religious freedom in the world for year 2002. The blame of Watani is, however, not entirely justified. The RNSAW gives examples of the Egyptian press reporting elements...
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2002 to Friday, October 4, 2002
[The RNSAW presented a summary of this text in week 39A. This is a full translation]
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2002 to Friday, October 4, 2002
.The statement approved by the Azhar Permanent Committee for Dialogue and by the Anglican Church raised many questions concerning the correction of some information that is being taught about each religion. Sheikh El-Zafzaf said that this change of curricula started when an Azhar scholar found some...
Date of source: Saturday, August 31, 2002 to Friday, September 6, 2002
New Islamic preachers are not Azhar graduates. They have not studied religion as it should be studied. Yet, they turned into social stars with the help of the media. The question is: why could the Azhar not generate preachers who would be welcomed by the public and who would lecture the youths in a...
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2002
The decision of the Creed and Philosophy Committee in the Islamic Research Institute which gives the apostate a lifetime chance to recant his apostate ideas has led Egyptian lawyers to call for reopening the case of Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid, who was accused of apostasy in 1995.
Date of source: Thursday, July 11, 2002
The Bahai is not an Islamic sect. Any Muslim joins it is to be considered an apostate. An apostate is a person who renounces Islam to follow another religion. Fiqh scholars collectively agreed that an apostate should be killed if he insists on renouncing Islam.
Date of source: Monday, July 15, 2002
The Supreme State Security Prosecution detained 28 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood on a charge of exploiting the Palestinian issue and inciting people to commit hostile acts against the government. The detainees denied all the charges filed against them and accused the government of fabricating...
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2002 to Friday, July 12, 2002
Rose El-Youssef´s special file on extremism for this week shows how the magazine resisted extremism. It also discussed the reasons for Egypt´s success in overcoming terrorism, the issue of the cassettes containing lectures by sheikhs who claim to preach in the name of religion, the...
Date of source: Monday, May 27, 2002
A Lebanese scholar issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims to deposit money in American banks and associations because the interest on this money benefits the Israeli existence. Dean of the Faculty of Education at the Azhar University said that this fatwa complied with the Islamic Shari´a. A member...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.