Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2002
Al-Wafd and al-Usboa papers are positive toward the Yemeni Shaykh al-Habib al-Gafri and against the decision to deport him. Sout al-Ummah, however, believes that better than deporting him would be to disclose his deception. al-Musawwar interviews him on the reasons behind his deportation and his...
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Al-Ahali has reported that the security
services foiled an attempt to supply runaway members of the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah in Upper Egypt with weapons and
ammunition. It has added that Muhammad al-Islamboli is against the ideological reconsiderations of the group. The
Gama?at al-Islāmīyah have...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Rose Al-Yūssif and al-Musawar provided a background of Shaykh al-Ḥabīb al-Jifrī and how he started preaching in Egypt. The reasons for his deportation were unclear, but he claimed he was slandered and defamed. al-Musawar added an interview with him about the ḥijāb. Sawt al-'Umma attributes his...
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Many articles
focussed on the opinions of religious and political leaders concerning the crisis around the Church of the Nativity.
They compared responses from different churches; Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic.
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All Copts and church leaders in Egypt and all over the world condemned Sharon?s practices against the
Palestinians and the fact that the Israeli forces attacked the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem and prevented
worshipping in it for the first time in history. They asked different countries all...
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The Cairo Court of Appeal said
that Israel is the first beneficiary of the law of khula? which can destroy the Egyptian society and its Islamic and
Arabic traditions. The deputy of the patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt said that khula? is a new civil
legislation not known in...
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[Khul‘‘ is wife?s request for
divorce in return for the dowry and gifts she had received from him].
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Some papers claimed that the Shaykh of the Azhar refused
to extend the period in office of Dr. Nasser Farid Wassel as a Muftī for Egypt and appointed instead of him Dr. Ahmad
El-Tayyeb because the former Muftī issued many Fatāwá that corticated his Fatāwá. Other papers shed light on the...
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The Egyptian Cassation Court annulled the
sentences given by the Supreme State Security Court against Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and against 18 of the other 27
defendants. It also ordered their retrial and refused the defense request to stay the execution of the seven years
imprisonment sentence...
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Akher Saa and Sawt al-Ummah give a detailed overview of an article
published in the American magazine Newsweek under the title ?The Qur?an and the Bible... Differences and Common
Denominators.? The point both papers strongly objected to is the fact that Newsweek published pictures of the Prophet...