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Date of source: Tuesday, February 27, 2001
A leader within the Egyptian Gama’a Al Islamiya thinks that the Copts of Egypt should be considered as Kufar [unbelievers] with whom Muslims have no peace treaty. By doing this he has given permission for extremists to kill Copts, and capture their women and children, to exchange for the group’s...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001
Instead of isolation of fundamentalist leaders living in exile, they are now making statements through e-mail or web sites, declaring their point of view.. The newest e-Jihad site is the Mujahidin, supervised by the Arab-Afghans. In the Mujahidin site, published in Arabic, English, and Turkish, is...
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2000
Rafi Ahmed Taha, a prominent leader of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya, accused Egyptian authorities of being responsible for the killing of fundamentalist leader Alaa’ Abdel Razaq Atia, and one of his accomplices in a clash with the Egyptian security forces in Aswan on October 19.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 10, 1999
In a rare public glimpse of a fierce internal debate, Islamist spiritual leader Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman denounced attempts to work within the Egyptian political system by two fledgling Islamist parties.
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 1999
Judicial Assistant of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman said that Rahman’s fatwa was issued and delivered to Gamal Sultan, a representative of the founders of the Reformation Party nine months ago but Sultan kept it away from the founders of that party because he didn’t agree with the fatwa.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
An Islamist group rallied Muslims worldwide on August 19 to launch a global campaign for the release of an ailing Egyptian cleric after a US appeals court upheld his life sentence for terrorist activities.
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999
Last week, the British authorities arrested two Islamist militants who escaped from Egypt. They are Adel Abd Al-Mageid and Ibrahim Abd Al-Hadi. These terrorists were arrested after the American authorities presented evidence which proves that they were involved in bombing the American embassies in...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The US has officially charged Ayman El-Zawahri, leader of the underground Jihad group, and his aide, Khaled El-Fawwaz, with involvement in the twin bombings of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last August. El-Zawahri is believed to reside in Afghanistan while El-Fawwaz is under arrest in...
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 1999 to Wednesday, May 19, 1999
Interior Minister Habib El-Adli denied that there is a truce between the security forces and the Gama’a Islamiyya. He said his department acts to reintegrate jailed militants into society once they "repent" and are released. El-Adli also announced that an official probe into allegations of police...
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
This trial is the biggest trial of suspected Islamic militants since those that followed the assassination of the late President Anwar Al-Sadat.
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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.