Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Many non-historians tend to extrapolate backwards when thinking about history. The great Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun wrote it is dangerous to judge the past by the present. We are now living through a period in which there are some who wish to pit religion against religion and allege that co-...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2003
Arab media are voicing their frustration about president Bush’s campaign against terrorism that resembles medieval crusaders. Bush is using more religion in his vocabulary than most if any current heads of state of Muslim countries. This is putting pressure on them to use more Muslim religious...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2003
The ongoing polarization between the Western and Arab worlds is quickly spiraling down to a confrontation which will cause great damage to both the Western and Arab worlds. That polarization can still be avoided but only if people are willing to understand the causes of this polarization and are...
Date of source: Monday, February 24, 2003
Article with comment. In an angry and inciting tone, the independent weekly Al-Usboa calls for jihad against the US for its impending war on Iraq. It strongly criticizes Arab rulers for their stand towards the war, which they believe is a new crusade and a threat to Islam.
Date of source: Monday, February 17, 2003
The Minister of Endowments denies reports about US Aid being allocated to mosques so that they are not run by civil societies. He stresses that the policy of putting mosques under the surveillance of the Ministry is not carried out according to instructions from foreign bodies.
Date of source: Saturday, February 15, 2003
Western sources revealed that the US considers the preparation of a comprehensive plan to control mosques in Arab and Islamic countries with the aim of having mosques in hand and limiting Islamic anger toward the US in case of attacking Iraq.
Date of source: Saturday, February 22, 2003
The influence of polarization of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Egyptian press.
Remark on an article about intellectual terrorism published in this issue.
Date of source: Saturday, February 1, 2003
Comments on the fatwa of the head of the Azhar Fatwa Committee saying that any person who holds American citizenship, or citizenship of any country that fights any Muslim people, is an apostate
Date of source: Saturday, February 1, 2003
For the fifth and last time, Saad Eddin Ibrahim will appear before the Court of Appeal. The court will either convict him for the third time or declare him innocent from the accusations leveled against him.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 29, 2003
American Martha Elite Jones came to Egypt with her husband to convert to Islam. She read a lot about Islam but the anti-Islamic campaigns caused her confusion. At the end she was convinced that Islam is the right religion.
See also art. 23