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Questioning the religious dimension of the war on Iraq is the focus of many articles covering the war. Different publications shed light on Bush’s religious background in an effort to establish a link between his religious tendencies and the war. Others wonder whether the war is a new crusade...
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Al-Ahali has reported that the security
services foiled an attempt to supply runaway members of the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah in Upper Egypt with weapons and
ammunition. It has added that Muhammad al-Islamboli is against the ideological reconsiderations of the group. The
Gama?at al-Islāmīyah have...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Despite the acquittal of Khayrat al-Shāṭir, the second deputy of the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide, along with 39 prominent members of the group by a Cairo criminal court ruling, President Muhammad Ḥusnī Mubārak, acting in his capacity as the supreme commander of the armed forces, referred the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
In an escalation of the Egyptian government’s crackdown on
the Muslim Brotherhood, security authorities dealt a blow to the outlawed group’s financial muscle as it arrested a
number of businessmen affiliated to the group.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 6, 2001
The Islamic Research Institute issued a
statement declaring
its rejection of associating Islām with terrorism and explaining the true meaning of Jihād in
Islam. The
Brotherhood member Dr. Essam al-Erian said that the definition the Azhar gave of Jihād went along with
the
Brotherhood’s...
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2001
Al-Ahram al-Arabi shed light on the life of monks under the title "We Are Angels Living on Earth." al-Aḥrār reported that after its journalist visited al-Muharraq monastery, it concluded that the expelled monk’s crimes could not have taken place there as al-Nabaa claimed. The history of Christian...
Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2000
Al-Hayat, praised the Muslim Brotherhood for backing the Coptic candidate of the Wafd Party in the Waili district. The author of the article described the group’s attitude as "a new step towards an opening to other political powers and an attempt to extend the group’s efficient political tendencies...
Date of source: Sunday, November 12, 2006
The author discusses the upcoming seminar initiated by Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá under the auspices of the Egyptian Society for Enlightenment, which will discuss topics such as Copts and citizenship; the relationship between clergy and laymen; laymen participation in church affairs; church trials and the...
Date of source: Sunday, September 24, 2006
A new website has been set up
by al-Hikāyma which aims to criticize the former leadership of Jamā‘ah Islamīyah
and their disavowal of violence.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Mamdouh al-Musallami declares the rise of a new generation of terrorist
networks,
but some experts disagree.