Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2001
The Episcopal Church in Egypt emphasized its agreement with the Palestinian problem and the steps that Egypt has made to return their rights and stop the violence practiced against them.
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2001
The congress counselor Tom Lantos attacked Islam and the Al-Hadibih agreement in a speech he made in front of the American-Israeli committee for general affairs. As a result of the American Muslims’ angry campaigns against him, he apologized to them for what he said. Still, they think that his...
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2001
Scholars in Egypt are divided between rejecting and supporting the fatwa issued by the European Council for Fatwa and Research. The fatwa allows non-Muslim women who converted to Islam to stay with their still non-Muslim husbands. The Islamic Research Institute and the Egyptian Fatwa House...
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2001
The general secretary of the international seminar for Muslim youth warned against European ignorance of Islam. He stressed the importance of establishing permanent institutes to follow up the progress of the Islamic mission in Europe and to correct the wrong image of Islam and Muslims there.
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2001
The General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood expressed his dissatisfaction at the activities the government practice against the Muslim Brotherhood. He considered having 17 representatives in Parliament a big success. He declared his solidarity with the Egyptian church in its crisis with Al-Nabaa...
Date of source: Thursday, August 9, 2001
The female candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Interior because he did not execute the court’s order concerning setting a date for the elections in Al-Ramle constituency in Alexandria.
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2001
The author comments on the Egyptian media and press in the light of Al-Nabaa’s crisis, which he believes is not about the Copts or the expelled monk as much as it is about the crisis of written journalism in Egypt. He expressed the opinion that although Al-Naaba was shut down, papers will still...
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2001
The European Council for Fatwa and Researches issued a fatwa that allows a non-Muslim woman to stay with her non-Muslim husband after converting to Islam. Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, the head of the council, believes that this opinion agrees with the Qur’an and goes with the needs of the non-Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 31, 2001
The Cassation Court accepted the appeals presented by the Prosecutor General and the families of the victims of Al-Kosheh riots against the rulings handed down in the case. The court decided to retry all the 92 defendants of the case by a different Assiut court.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 31, 2001
The Cairo Personal Status Court rejected the Hisba suit brought forth by lawyer Nabih Al-Wahsh against Nawal Al-Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband. Al-Wahsh said that the court did not discuss the case and dismissed it only because he has formally no personal interest.