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Egyptian best selling author and Rose al-Yousuf columnist, Sayyid al-Qimnī, was reported to have received a death threat via e-mail signed by the name of Abu Jihād al-Qi‘qā‘, who is believed to have links with the extremist Islamist group Qā‘idat al-Rāfidayn.
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Muhammad Yusrī, the fugitive brother of terrorist Īhāb Yusrī, who carried out a recent suicide bombing at the downtown ‘Abd al-Muncim Riyād square, was handed over by Libya, where he escaped shortly before the incidents in which several people were injured. His sister Najāt Yusrī, along with a...
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
An Egyptian Islamist who holds Pakistani citizenship demanded that he be transferred from Abu Za’bal prison [in Egypt] to Guantanamo detention center in Cuba, where almost 580 Qa’ida and Taliban detainees are imprisoned, claiming that he would receive better treatment there. He claimed that he is...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The events of al-Khānkah in 1972 until the events in al-‘Ayyāṭ in 2007 have marked 35 years of tension, conflict, and sectarian clashes in Egypt. The Egyptian press has recorded a total of 202 incidents, an average of six incidents a year. The author provides an overview of 35 years of tension,...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2007
The article is about an initiative, launched by the founder of the Jihād Group, calling on Islamic groups to stop the violence and killing.
Date of source: Saturday, May 5, 2007
Leaders of the Jihād Islamic group are about to issue their report on their adjusted strategies and tactics against using violence. While the majority of the group seems to approve of the amendments, some of the leaders consider the document unreliable according to possibility of having been...
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2007
The author comments on political Islam, and the people that have fought to combat this image of Islam. She further comments on controversial Fatwás, as well as Muslim-Christian relations.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
TheJihād Group officially declares their initiative to cease of the use of violence. While many of the Islamic groups approved of the initiative, many seem to complicate the issue.
Date of source: Monday, April 23, 2007
In a message from detained leaders of the Jihād Group, they stress their beliefs that the regime-orchestrated initiative to cease violence is no more than an absurd ploy.
Date of source: Sunday, April 15, 2007
Al-Zayyāt, the
lawyer of the Islamic groups, assures the Jihād Organization’s decision to cease violence enjoys the support of the
leading figures within the Islamic groups.