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Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2005
The niqāb has been misused recently as a cover for a suicide attack. Hence its banning has become a security necessity to protect the nation regardless of what the extremists say about it being a religious duty.
Date of source: Friday, May 13, 2005
Grand Imam of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, said if a woman wore the niqāb to cover her face with the aim of committing a murder or intimidating the innocent civilians, God would double her punishment because in this case she is like a hypocrite that pretends piety while concealing...
Date of source: Thursday, June 19, 2003
Basing on the fatwa of Sheikh Dr. Sabry Abdel Ra’ouf, a lawyer filed a request to declare some artists who retired and wore the veil and later took it off as apostate. The author approaches those artists as well as religious scholars to comment on the fatwa.
Date of source: Thursday, June 19, 2003
The article is an interview with Sheikh Dr. Sabry Abdel Ra’ouf over his fatwa which judges women who took off their veil [hijab] as apostates. He states that women who publicly declare that hijab is not an Islamic obligation are apostates.
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2005
Woman’s rights from the Islamic perspective is a controversial issue. This issue was misused by fanatics who want to prevent her to go to work. They also belittle her natural and intellectual faculties.On the other hand, the secularists exploited this issue, calling for the emancipation of women...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Arab Gulf countries have linked Egyptians’ work in their countries with specific hard line religious trends and sects. These Arabs have enforced on us Wahhabi thoughts and their Bedouin, tribal, customs. They have imposed on us monaqaba [veiled including a cover of the face] women, myths,...
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 2004
There are women who get into the women’s carriage of the underground and call upon unveiled women to wear the veil. The words of those women may involve insults to the unveiled women. They never take in consideration that some women on board, who are insulted, are Egyptian Christians. Furthermore...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
The prominent preacher’s wife confirmed that everything that had been said about him is true and that the monaqaba woman [the veil includes coverage of the face] was not making false claims. So his wife prevented him from going outside the house at all, and he could not even go to the mosque to...
Date of source: Monday, March 29, 2004
In the story of the monaqaba woman and the preacher, Sawt Al-Umma, ran a side story about another monaqaba woman, who admitted to her mistake when the sheikh of the widows and divorcées deceived her. I received two messages, which I put in front of you.
1. A message from the friends of the second...
Date of source: Monday, April 12, 2004
Women preachers go onto the metro and say loud do’aa [prayers] and ask women on board to repeat after them. Now, the phenomenon has developed. Now women preachers are giving religious lessons in the metro. • See article 4: Renewal of religious discourse has not been successful for the last 1500...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.