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Egypt’s al-Jihād group has stunned public opinion with its recent announcement that it killed al-Ahrām journalist Ridā Hilāl, whose mysterious disappearance a couple of years ago bewildered the security agencies.
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Although it is still too early to unravel the Sharm el-Sheikh bombings that claimed the lives of 64 people - including seven foreigners - and injured 124 others, several facts are emerging which might explain what happened on that bloody Friday night.
Date of source: Monday, April 2, 2007
The release of Shaykh Nabīl Bakr is a good step toward closing the file on the Jihād organization.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
In 1992, Cairo witnessed the first ‘Conference on the Problems of Bias,’ which concluded the main features of a “theory of bias.” In March 2007, Cairo witnessed the secondconference on bias, ‘The International Conference for Dialogue between Civilizations and the Different Tracks of Knowledge.’ The...
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Asharq al-Awsat and al-Musawwar interviewed a leader of the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah and asked him about how the Gama?at were established, the conditions in which the initiative of denouncing violence was declared and the reasons behind their ideological reconsideration. Akher Saa interviewed a...
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From his jail in the United States, Shaykh Omar Abdel
Rahman, the spiritual leader of al-
Gamaa’t al-Islāmīyah in Egypt, issued a controversial statement, in
which he withdrew his support for their initiative to
abandon violence. This initiative was originally
launched in July 1997.
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
The review deals with varied opinions about Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks
considered offensive in Muslim and
Arab countries amidst calls to expel the papal nuncio in Egypt and put the
interfaith dialogue with the
Vatican on the back burner.
Date of source: Thursday, July 20, 2006
Sources within the "banned" Jihād group have recently revealed that the group is currently considering a non-violence initiative, in response to repeated calls from former leaders of the group to reject violence, Ahmad Imbābī writes. Unlike al-Jamā‘ah al -Islāmīya, the Jihād group has no "...
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Mamdouh al-Musallami declares the rise of a new generation of terrorist
networks,
but some experts disagree.
Date of source: Monday, June 30, 2003
Islamic figures comment on the criticism Abu Hamza Al-Masri leveled at the Gama’a Al-Islamiya because of its condemnation of the attacks in Riyadh and Casablanca.