Date of source: Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Recently, a report aimed at re-shaping Islamic liberal ideology, was released. This important report titled “Civil Democratic Islam… Partners, Resources, and Strategies” was made by Cheryl Benard who works in the National Security Research Division of Rand Organization. The most sensible reaction [...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 10, 2004
I have some remarks about the American report about the Islamic situation [i.e. “Civil Democratic Islam… Partners, Resources, and Strategies”]. This report was not made for philanthropic purposes but at the expense of the US Department of Defense. The report was issued by the National Security...
Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
This factory employs 130 employers of whom eight have died of cancer and 46 are diagnosed with cancer or other work-related diseases like weakness of the heart muscle. These results were revealed in a report released by the Medical Insurance Authority.
The factory manufactures asbestos and is...
Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
Hajj Sayyed is the owner of the most popular clothes store in Egypt [Al-Tawhid wa Al-Nur]. He has taken advantage of soaring unemployment rates among youth and decided to impose certain conditions on those who want to work for him, leading some to call his stores “a detention place.”
Date of source: Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Mamdouh Mikhail, a 25-year-old young man and a graphic designer, says that he merely reads the newspapers headlines so as to be generally informed of what is taking place Mamdouh, moreover, confirms that he does not like reading religious books because of their dense language and makes do with the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2004
There are many examples to prove that Copts have minimal or absent share in the posts of governors, ministers, heads of state banks, state university presidents, as well as leading posts in the military and the police. All in all, it can be said that Copts occupy no more than zero to one per cent...
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 2004
[The title is a play on words of the name of the Muslim Group of Takfir and Higra] We have to give up our useless approaches in dealing with the world. We have to adopt an approach that is based on tafkir [thinking] and not on takfir [accusation of unbelief]. We only have to count that number of...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Sayyed Qutb and Muhammad Baqer Al-Sadr are two thinkers who lived similar lives. The former was executed in Egypt in 1966, and the latter was killed under the Saddam regime [in Iraq], and they both left an important mark on the path of contemporary history. Qutb belonged of the Muslim Brotherhood,...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2004
It is well known that the West [the US and European countries] has recently proposed a project to reform Arab and Islamic countries because those countries supposedly do not apply the principles of democracy. We simply have to read our history and hold on to our religion - only then would we become...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 4, 2004
Could the Union of Muslim Scholars recently established in Ireland be the solution to the conflict of fatwas in the Islamic world? What are the conditions, under which this union was born, and what does its charter say, and who funds it?
These questions are answered by Dr. Muhammad Selim Al-Awa,...