Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Religious freedom is a modern term that has occupied the minds of many scholars and intellectuals. What does religious freedom mean to the moderates, how do some try to deny that freedom, and could religion be forced onto someone? Dr. Youssef al-Qaradawi will answer these questions.
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Signs of a new crisis have jumped to the front of the cultural arena in Egypt and have revived the scenario of confrontation between the Azhar institutions and liberal intellectuals. The most bizarre incident is the banning of Nawal Al-Sa'adawi's "Soqout Al-Imam" [The Fall of the Imam] that was...
Date of source: Monday, January 13, 2003
The author reviews two books about the issue of apostacy which has been discussed extensively. The first book is titled ?Al-Sawa?ek al-elaheya fi al-rad ala al-Wahabiya? [Divine thunders in answering the Wahhābī movement] which is one hundred years old, while the second book is titled “la ikrah fi...
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The four papers comment on the issue of the freedom of press in Egypt in light of the detention of Mustafa Bakri, Editor-in Chief of Al-Usboa, and his deputy Mahmoud
Bakri.
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The editor-in-chief of Al-Usboa and his deputy [his brother] have been put in prison to serve a one year sentence. They have been convicted in an action suit brought against them by the former president of the Justice Party and chairman of Al-Watan Al-Arabi newspaper, accusing them of defaming him.
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The truth of the ?Protocols of the Elders of Zion? and the dramatic treatment of history are the focus of the articles commenting on ?Knight without a horse.? President Mubarak has sent a message to the Israeli president stressing that the series is not based on the ?Protocols.? The American...
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The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights objects to the airing of ?Knight Without a Horse.? It asks the Arab TV channels airing it to announce that the ?Protocols of the Elders of Zion? are fabricated. Some writers are against the dramatic treatment of historical facts in the series. The court of...
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The report of the American
State Department on religious freedom in the world lists Egypt among the countries where religious freedom is
violated. The report claims that Egypt does not respect non-Islamic religions and pressures their followers. It does
not give them religious freedom to the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 9, 2002
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Date of source: Monday, June 24, 2002
Workshop for Egyptian journalists; freedom of expression.