Date of source: Tuesday, June 5, 2001
People who believe that Christians have nothing to do with the Intifada adopt a religious concept of the Arab-Israeli conflict, limiting it to only a Muslim-Jewish one. Muslims adopting this view strengthen the racist Jewish claims and weaken the fact that Israel is violating the rights of both...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2001
Cairo’s First Degree Personal Status Court will look, on June 18, at the lawsuit started by a lawyer against Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi and her husband. The accusation is that she announced opinions against Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 5, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood want to form a political party to end their series of failed coalitions with other parties. Dr. Essam Al-Erian said that founding a Brotherhood Party was the only way to end the stagnation in the Egyptian political arena.
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2001
The head of the Evangelical church in Assiut, said that the church there would contribute to the restoration of the mosque located beside the church and would donate three thousand pounds to pave the road to the mosque and the church.
Date of source: Monday, May 7, 2001
The conference of "The Right of Expression" witnessed great controversies among intellectuals and men of law concerning the ideas Salah Eissa, the Editor-in-chief of Al-Qahira Magazine, introduced. He introduced ideas pertaining to religious and national constant principles and some other opinions...
Date of source: Saturday, May 5, 2001
Attorney Nabih Al-Wahsh filed a lawsuit against Nawal Al-Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband because she has left Islam and has not repented of her community-damaging ideas. The Mufti thinks that what Al-Sa’adawi said requires her to leave Islam and includes denials of what she knows about...
Date of source: Friday, April 27, 2001
Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi and Bishop Bissenti differ concerning Eve’s creation from Adam’s rib. The former rejected the idea, arguing that it would belittle women’s position and stressed that it was not mentioned in Islam. Bishop Bissenti said that this fact is assured in the three heavenly religions...
Date of source: Thursday, April 19, 2001
Lawyer Nabih Al-Wahish introduced a new notification against Nawal Al-Sa’adawi, in which he asked the General Attorney to file a Hisba [the right of a Muslim to defend public morality, suing on behalf of religion] suit against Al-Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband as she has denied the...
Date of source: Thursday, March 15, 2001
The Turkish ambassador to Cairo comments on the Armenian’s claims of being persecuted by the Ottaman Empire. He said while the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, the West wanted Turkey to wrongly admit it had persecuted Christian minorities. They also urged the Christian minorities to seek their...
Date of source: Sunday, January 28, 2001
The chief editor of Al-Shaab urged the government to allow the re-opening of the paper following the court’s rejection of the last two government appeals. He claimed that political circumstances were now suitable for the instant re-opening of Al-Shaab, as proven by the Culture Ministry crisis. This...