Date of source: Wednesday, March 27, 2002
The Cairo Court of Appeal set the date of April 27 for the retrial of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The decision of retrying Ibrahim came after he was released last February due to the acceptance of the appeal he lodged against the seven-year imprisonment sentence he received.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 26, 2002
The administrative court of Frankfurt approved the building a mosque in the German city of Niederzell despite the opposition of the residents of the city. The Christian Democratic Party and the Republican Party appealed against the decision. Residents of many other German cities opposed the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Khalil Abdel Kareem´s book ”Al-Nass Al-Mu´assis Wa Mujtama´u” caused great controversy in the religious circles in Egypt. Some people asked for the confiscation of the book, which is believed to celebrate the ideas of some orientalists, defame the Prophet and his companions and raise...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
The Old Bailey Court in London extended holding the Egyptian fundamentalist Yasser Al-Serry, the manager of the Islamic Media Observatory in London. The lawyer of another Egyptian fundamentalist in Canada raised a big surprise in the Federal Court of Toronto when he announced his withdrawal from...
Date of source: Thursday, March 7, 2002
Montasser Al-Zayyat said that the fact that Egyptians in Afghanistan are fully acquainted with the mountain passes and the roads of Afghanistan helped them to escape the American forces. He added that American´s revenge over the members of the Qa´eda organization proves that America is...
Date of source: Monday, March 11, 2002
The FBI received an anonymous message to the effect that an Egyptian Christian biologist living in the USA and working in Yosemred [name translitterated from the Arabic] Institution for military biological research is the one behind the spread of anthrax in America. The FBI men got to believe that...
Date of source: Friday, March 8, 2002
A professor of the Coptic Studies Institute in Egypt demanded the return of Al-Sultan monastery in Jerusalem to the Egyptian sovereignty. Al-Sultan monastery is considered one of the properties of the Egyptian church in Jerusalem. It was seized by the Jews and a group of Ethiopian Christians is now...
Date of source: Sunday, March 3, 2002
The leader of the Ansar Al-Shari´a group in London said that the British intelligence service men asked him to use a moderate manner of preaching and that they do want him to speak about jihad but to express an imploring, sorrowful Islam. He added that he encourages the Muslims who want to...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
The judge of appeal in the court of Heliopolis ordered the continuation of the imprisonment of both a Palestinian women and her Israeli husband for 30 days in custody. The Egyptian State Security Prosecution charged them with offending heavenly religions and with trying to promote a new religion...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 5, 2002
The sense of danger implied in the idea of the inter-civilizational clash pushed a lot of thinkers and politicians to adopt the issue of inter-civilizational dialogue. The world knew other kinds of dialogues, for instance, the dialogue between the North and the South, the Arabic-European dialogue...