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2. Creativity is between state power and religion control
Date of source: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
The article sheds light on "al-Adyān wa Hurīyat al-Ta‘bīr, Ishkālīyat al-Hurīyah fī al-Mujtama‘āt al-Mukhtalifah,’ [Religions and the Freedom of Expression; the problem of Freedom in the Different Societies] a book issued by the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies.
Urgent Appeal to Amend Article Two of the Constitution
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2007
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies [CIHRS] has sent an appeal to the president of the republic and the speakers of both houses of Parliament called to amend Article Two of the Constitution that states that Islam is the religion of the state and Islamic sharīʿā is the main source of...
32. After his fatwá on statues, the mufti approves use of minarets by mobile phone companies!
Date of source: Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The Egyptian muftī, Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘ah, was severely slammed by a number of Muslim scholars for his recent fatwá, in which he permits mobile phone companies to install their towers on mosque minarets.
15. Should we burn thousands of art objects in the Museum of Islamic Art?
Date of source: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
‘Izz al-Dīn Najīb responds to a column by Safa Nāz Kāzim in which she attacked him for being against the visit of the mufti to the Faculty of Fine Arts. Secondly, he argues against the religious prohibition on the picturing of humans.
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