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The overview covers different articles that deal with the role religion plays in the life of President Bush and how it impacts his foreign policy and whether the US war on Iraq is a crusade. It also refers to the theory of clashes between civilizations.
Date of source: Monday, December 23, 2002
The Middle East Council of Churches organized an Arab Islamic-Christian dialogue conference in Cairo. Another Islamic-Christian dialogue conference was held in Bahrain. The Egyptian Evangelical Organization for Social Services invited Muslim and Christian scholars to a seminar discussing ?Violence...
Date of source: Sunday, December 29, 2002
List of the articles commenting on President Mubarak?s decision that Coptic Christmas day is a national holiday. The decision is highly praised and welcomed.
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Only three papers wrote about "Knight without a horse" this week. One article discussed the ?Protocols of the Elders of Zion.? The series is praised in a second article and criticized in a third article for the same reason.
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Some Islamic bank owners threaten to bring a case over the unconstitutional practice of the fatwa of the Islamic Research Institute that permits bank interest. A Brotherhood member of parliament has criticized the fatwa stating it is religiously illegal.
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The truth of the ?Protocols of the Elders of Zion? and the character of Hafez Naguib are still the focus of most of the articles commenting on ?Knight without a horse.?
Rose El-Youssef reports that the series is against killing Israeli civilians and militants and considers resistance as terrorism.
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Supporters of Sheikh Amr Khaled praise his preaching and his efforts to teach youths their religion. His opponents believe he has shallow religious knowledge and thus is not qualified to preach. Al-Arabi attacks a Coptic journalist because he expressed his opinion on Khaled and the issue of the...
Date of source: Saturday, December 28, 2002
Missio report titled “Christian persecution?”Media attention for RNSAW work. Media critique on a press release by the US Copts Association about problems around church restoration in the village of Shutb, 5 km Sawth of Assiut.
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The Egyptian Court of Cassation accepted the second appeal Saad Eddin Ibrahim lodged against the seven-year imprisonment sentence handed down to him. The Cassation Court cancelled the ruling and set January 7 for a third and final trial of Ibrahim. Ibrahim was released after the court?s session.
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Some members of the Egyptian parliament launched a campaign against ?Knight without a horse? because it distorts the Egyptian national history. Moreover, Israel asked the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights to blame Egypt for its alleged anti-Semitism reflected in airing the series