Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The head of
the banned Muslim Brotherhood has declined to offer an apology for
his statements in an interview published by
Rose al-Yousuf newspaper in which he said "to hell with
Egypt and its people," which drew wide-scale angry
reactions in the Egyptian press.
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
A 22-member group, called al-Tā’ifa al-Mansoura
[The victorious denomination]
has been arrested by the Egyptian police for planning terrorist attacks against
tourist sites, gas
pipelines, and a number of top Muslim and Christian clergy.
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2006 to Friday, April 28, 2006
A fatwa allows couples to get married and waives the
husband’s responsibility
to shoulder household expenses.
Date of source: Friday, April 21, 2006
Iranian police have been ordered to arrest women flouting the Islamic dress code and men with outlandish hairstyles. Under the new campaign, taxi agencies will be held accountable for their passengers’ clothes,
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Despite
being accepted in the Islamic sharī‘a,
the misyār marriage, in which the
husband and wife do not live together, has always been a
subject of heated controversy among Muslim
scholars.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006 to Friday, April 21, 2006
The author reviews a
number of novels written by promising young people who have their works
published at their own expense, without any
help from state institutions.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
The
recently discovered Gospel of Judas has caused heated controversy in Christian circles. Despite
having been
rejected by the church, the Coptic manuscript is considered to be of considerable scientific and
historical
value.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
The recent ruling by the Administrative Judiciary Court recognizing the
Bahā’ī faith in
Egyptian official documents like identity cards, passports or birth certificates
has triggered outcry from
official Muslim religious institutions that vehemently reject the ruling.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
The review tackles the incidents of Alexandria, where a man, alleged by the Ministry
of the Interior to be a lunatic, stormed three churches one after the other, and stabbed worshippers while
chanting Muslim slogans in praise of the Prophet Muhammad.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006 to Friday, April 21, 2006
Talāl al-Ansārī, the second defendant in the so-called al-Fanīya al-‘Askarīya [Armed Forces Technical College] case of the 1974 abortive
coup, continues publishing episodes of his diary in Rose al-Yousuf magazine, recounting how he received
strict orders from first defendant Sālih Sarīya to deny...