Date of source: Monday, May 23, 2005
Reports about the American desecration of the Qur'ān, Muslims' holy book, in the United States' detention camp of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This stirred the angry sentiments of Muslims all over the world.
Date of source: Saturday, May 28, 2005
While the nation has recently voted over the most important constitutional amendment in the past 50 years, Egyptians in Britain were shocked by some elements and tried to advocate the opposite view in a rickety automobile with a banner reading “Save Egypt Front.”
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 2004
In the Conference for the Priorities and Mechanisms of Reform in the Arab
world, Abdel Mon’em Abu Al-Fotouh, member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood
criticized the American democratic experience through some western and American leftist writings.
The ideology of the Muslim...
Date of source: Monday, July 12, 2004
Asharq Al-Awsat received information from sources in the American administration that
the American Committee on Religious Freedom is due to visit Egypt from the 16th to the 18th of
July. The committee will examine developments in the fields of freedom of belief, freedom of
expression and human...
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 2004
Political, social and economic reform would not be appreciated in Arab
countries unless the bureaucratic bodies and the Islamic movements were convinced this change and
its democratic and capitalist content would be worth it. Unless these two forces are convinced
that the expansion of civil...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 2004
The fate of the book
“Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil asr Al-hadith”[The responsibility of the failure of
the Islamic State in the contemporary era] written by Gamal Al-Banna is still unclear. Al-Banna
confirmed that the Islamic Research Institute has banned his book while the Azhar...
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 2004
The Gama’a Al-Islamiya [Islamic Group] in Egypt strongly condemned the Sinai
bombings, describing them as arbitrary and inapt. The statement came at a time where both public
and official opinion renounced the act, including the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Research
Institute. The latter...
Date of source: Sunday, October 17, 2004
The heated
controversy in Egypt over the statements of the writer Usama Anwar Okasha has been escalated. In
a press article, Okasha attacked the Companion of the Prophet Amr Ibn Al-‘As and made some
accusations against him, which some people considered an insult to Amr Ibn Al-‘As.
- See art. 7...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
In a fresh development of relations between
the Egyptian government and the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, security authorities lifted a nine-
year travel ban slapped on the group’s Supreme Guide Muhammad Mahdi Akef, allowing him to leave
for an omra [lesser pilgrimage.]
Date of source: Friday, January 9, 2004
Islamic
organizations and others involved in advocating equality criticized the statement of well-known
British media commentator Robert Kilroy-Silk, 61, in which he said that Arabs offered nothing to
human civilization and that their name is linked to suicide operations and the abuse of women.