Date of source: Sunday, April 25, 2004
Mountaser Al-Zayyat, the lawyer of the fundamentalist groups in Egypt, stated thatKhaled Al-Islamboly, the assassin of Sadat, was not a member of Al-Jihad organization or of the Gama’a Islamiya; he was closely linked to Muhammad Abdel Salam Farag, leader of Al-Jihad in 1981.
Date of source: Sunday, May 9, 2004
In total secrecy, the Ministry of Interior released 100 prisoners and detainees from the Gama’a Islamiya, who have completed their prison sentences and detention periods. The Ministry made the released members sign a written promise that they will rejoin the trend within the group that believes in...
Date of source: Monday, November 15, 2004
An Egyptian newspaper published yesterday that authorities had released 700 members of The Gama’a Al-Islamiya that was charged with carrying out terrorist attacks in the nineties before its recent initiative to reject violence.
- See art. 11: Sayyed Al-Qimni criticizes pro-terrorism fatwas given...
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
The same old boring
story is repeated over and over again. Despite proven groundless and fabricated, many reiterate the serial of kidnapping
Christian girls in collusion with the State security apparatus.
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2005
In his book Shāhid ‘Ala Waqf al-‘Unf: Tahawwulāt al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya fī Misr [A witness to halting violence: shifts of al- Jamā‘a Islāmīya in Egypt], writer ‘Abd al-Latīf al-Manāwī detects the inspiration of al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya.
Date of source: Thursday, February 3, 2005
Early last January, al-Hayāt published extracts from Muntasir al-Zayyāt’s book Al-Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīya: Ru’ya min al-Dākhil [Al-Jamācāt al-Islāmīya: A vision from inside]. In fact, a better title would be Al-Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīya: A personal vision. While reading the book, one can feel that personal...
Date of source: Friday, February 4, 2005
Al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya’s rejection of violence and terrorism has been the main topic of discussion at the Cairo International Book Fair. Editor-in-chef of al-Musawwar, Makram Muhammad Ahmad, followed up on the debates later recorded and published by al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya in four books.
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2005
Sawt al-Umma published in a previous issue the contents of Muntasir al-Zayyāt’s recent book Al-Jamācāt al-Islāmīya…Ru’ya min al-Dākhil [Al-Jamācāt al-Islāmīya: A Look from within]. In this article, al-Zayyāt defends some points discussed by Muhammad al-Bāz.
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2005
‘Amr ‘Abd al-Rahman was granted the PhD in interpreting the Holy Qur’ān. cAbd al-Rahman was doing his best to escape imprisonment [cAbd al-Rahman was a member of al-Jamācāt al-Islāmīya ] . From 1986 to 1988, shaykh cAbd al-Rahman used to depend on a look-alike to escape security surveillance.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
Egypt’s Interior Minister Habīb al-‘Ādlī made the first official announcement that Iran handed over the fugitive Mustafa Hamza to Egypt, on the sidelines of the Arab interior ministers meeting recently held in Tunisia.