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22. Alexandria churches assailant placed in sanitarium, Copts angry
Date of source: Sunday, July 2, 2006
The review deals with the angry Coptic reactions after the medical commission entrusted with examining the Alexandria churches assailant’s mental health said in its report that Mahmūd Salāh al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Rāziq is delusional and schizophrenic and not responsible for his actions.
36. Michael Munir to Sawt al-Ummah, “If we want to fix a bathroom in a church we have to take the permission of the State Security”
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
An interview with Michael Munīr, member of the Republican Party in the U.S. and controversial Coptic activist who is visiting Egypt.
21. Confessions by suspects in last year’s downtown bombings
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The article carry some of the confessions given by suspects in last year’s bombings in different areas of downtown Cairo, which killed a number of tourists and Egyptians and wounded dozens others.
60. Trial of journalists will turn into trial of regime and symbols of corruption
Date of source: Monday, May 29, 2006
The article focuses on the referral of Sawt al-Umma journalists to the criminal court over accusations that they slandered judges by publishing a so-called black list of judges involved in rigging the last parliamentary elections.
24. Extremism … at the hand of the court clerk
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Ministry of Interior has refused to allow 150 Christian converts to Islam, who later returned to Christianity, to change the religious data on their identity cards back to Christianity. Kamal Zākhir Mousa argues that an extremist wing of the political elite is trying to link citizenship to...
29. Hurghada: Three Norwegians, two Swedes accused of insulting Islam. The tourists put on Ihram clothes, circumambulated the mermaid statue
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
Five Scandinavian tourists, including three Norwegians and two Swedes [Reviewer: No names mentioned] have been accused of blasphemy on their holiday in Egypt for circumambulating a statue of a mermaid located in a town square in Hurghada, in an attempt to parody Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca....
35. Church rejects court ruling switching custody of children from Christian mother to Muslim father
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2006
The Egyptian church is refusing a court ruling allowing a Christian, who converted to Islam, to have custody of his children in favor of their Christian mother, appealing to top Muslim clerics to intervene.
15. Ruckus over Azhar’s granting of honorary doctorate to Prince Charles
Date of source: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
The article reviews a split inside the Azhar University over the decision to grant Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales an honorary doctorate from the largest Sunni institution in the Muslim world.
19. The Jihad Group disowns ‘Abboud al-Zumur
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2006
The Jihād Group repudiated statements made by their imprisoned leader ‘Abboud al-Zumor, who is serving a term in jail for involvement in the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadāt in 1981, in which he admitted the right of the Bahā’ī faith to express itself.
20. Father Filopatir suspended for criticism of state
Date of source: Saturday, December 10, 2005
Father Filopātīr was punished by the church after he published an article in which he criticized the president and the ruling party.

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