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16. Unsuccessful writer causes outbreak of sedition and launches the impiety war
Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2000 to Saturday, May 13, 2000
The unsuccessful writer Mohammed Abbas, caused a blaze of sedition in the already boiling Egyptian society with his enthusiastic article, last Friday, in which he criticized the novel "Banquet for the seaweed". With this article, Abbas launched a war of impiety against many writers and...
15. The voice of "reason" and the rationalization of the complainers
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000 to Saturday, May 13, 2000
As Dr. Mohammed Abbas has the right to criticize the novel "A Banquet for the seaweed", and to express whatever he likes, we also can give our opinion without being banned. Mohammed Al-Qodousi’s analysis of the novel is more important than that of Abbas.
8. A novel mocks the Qur’an and spreads the depravity of the author who created a stir against "A Banquet for the seaweed"
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2000
[In week 18 the RNSAW-translators translated ’ashab el-bahr’ in sea algea because it was done this way in the Cairo Times. We checked this and found ’seaweed’ to be the correct translation.] The author of this article claims that Mohammed Abbas mocks the Qur’an, the Prophetic Sunna, and the divine...
7. The Sheikh of the Azhar: I did not say that insurance is forbidden, and my opinion on bank interest did not change
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2000
The Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, delivered a lecture on ijtihad [the application of the sources of Islamic law for the purpose of making an independent judgment with regards to an issue or question] before the High Council for Islamic Affairs two nights ago. Concerning...
23. Pope Shenouda renews his refusal for the Copts to visit occupied Jerusalem
Date of source: Thursday, April 27, 2000
In his interview with "Al-Musawwar" magazine, Pope Shenouda III confirmed that Israel should withdraw from occupied Jerusalem and he insisted that the Egyptian Church would not allow the Copts to visit Jerusalem until it is set free. He said that it is not important to visit the places where Jesus...
10. An Azhar Professor requests that the Minister of Culture be dismissed from his post and brought before the Court
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2000
Nobody expected that the rage induced by a book of the novelist Haider Haider "Walimat Ashab Al-Bahr" [The Banquet Dinner of the Sea] would become a time bomb exploding in the mosques. Some of the Imams asked for punishment and the termination of the campaign against Islam and speaking against God...
4. The superstitions of "The story of the creation"
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2000
The publication of this book is regarded a great scandal. The author of this book denied all the scientific and religious facts. He claimed that what he had mentioned in the book was taken from religious sources and that was complete untrue.
3. Fax from Nasr Abu Zeid to support and defame Shahin
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2000
Dr. Nasr Abu Zeid sent a fax to the symposium that was held in the Cairo Center for Human Rights in which he supported Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin and his freedom of expression. He also accused him of offering Dr. Nasr’s wife to find another husband.
2. The trail of Abdel Sabour Shahin and Youssef Al-Badri and "My Father Adam" in the Cairo Center for Human rights
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2000
In the symposium that was held in the Cairo Center for Human Rights the attendants agreed to support the freedom of "Ijtihad" and the people who try to do it, because it is not only the case of Abdel Sabour Shahin, it is the case of freedom.
1. The news on their tongues
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2000
This article presented several opinions for well-known scholars on various Islamic topics. Their opinions were very brief and to the point.

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