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A discussion of tolerance and the relationship between religion and politics in Egypt from the era of Muhammad Ali, through the Nasser and Sadat years and concluding with two choices for the future for Egypt.
The author argues that the Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide’s disrespect for national affiliation is shared by all Muslim fundamentalists who believe that their nationality is Islam.
Important members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood left the group years ago and converted to Shi’ism, and the group itself has allied with Shi’ ites to achieve its political objectives.
Tal‘at Radwān, author of the article, reviews three books on political Islam by three different writers.
The author continues his comments on the Jewish religious discourse, stressing that it is racist and legitimizes the annihilation takes place in Palestine. He believes that modernists and secularists ignore such racist discourse. He asserts that Muslims need to renovate their Islamic religious...
The author of the article reviews types of Islamic discourse among which are the discourse of Islamic moderation, Sufi Islamic discourse and text-based Islamic discourse.
Renewing the religious discourse is a complicated issue. First, it is needed to avoid having a gap between the Islamic Shari´a and the needs of the changing life. At the same time, it is one of the issues which the US Administration exploits to pressure Islamic countries.
The author continues to discuss what he believes is an American attack on Islam which started with the disaster of September 11. He discusses the notion of Western modernity, that is seperation between religion and state. He writes that Gamal Eddin Al-Afghani disclosed its reality 125 ago
The article is a paper presented by the Tunisian intellectual Salah Eddin Al-Gorshi at a conference held in Paris, an initiative of the Cairo Center for Human Rights. The paper discusses the issue of renewing the religious discourse.
General Muhammad Shibl comments on the criticism of Al-Liwa al-Islami of the writers of Al-Qahera. Al-Liwa al-Islami accused them of being secular writers who write against the true religion. Al-Liwa al-Islami responded to the article of Shibl by insulting him and comparing him to Salman Rushdi.

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