Date of source: Sunday, December 10, 2006
A press review on a recent symposium about Copts’ participation in political life in Egypt. Participants of different perspectives expressed their viewpoints about the matter, and proposed practical steps to stimulate Copts’ participation in political life. The Muslim Brotherhood was also...
Date of source:
The recent
conference entitled, ‘Laymen’s Look at the Church’s Problems,’ has
caused a real crisis between the Coptic
Orthodox Church and Watanī newspaper. It has revealed
accumulating misunderstandings, which
the so-called reform conference brought to head.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
After her invention of the term “the kitchen
mentality,” Dr. Muná Abū Sunnah discusses the
dependent condition of women and calls on women to
stop believing in four main illusions that turn women from an
independent human being to mere means in the
lives of men.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
A Shaykh who enjoys considerable public support declares that a woman is a dwarf that must be under the authority of a man, and thanks God for blind men having been saved from the fatal sedition of women.
Date of source: Sunday, December 10, 2006
The author of the article criticizes some writers who misinterpret other people’s stances and actions
in a
way that twists the meaning of their words or actions.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
Six Muslim Brotherhood students were dismissed for forming a students union parallel to the official one at the Azhar University. Consequently, vandals from the group’s students broke into the university building and blockaded the chancellor’s bureau.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006
An interview with Egyptian Minister of Education Dr.
Yusrī al-Jamal, who
discusses the problems in Egyptian education and the measures being taken to
improve it.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Coptic writer Jamāl As‘ad explains what he
terms "totalitarianism in
the name of religion." He provides two examples from both Muslim and Christian
milieus: the Muslim Brotherhood’s
reaction to Farūq Husnī’s anti-H...
Date of source: Monday, December 11, 2006
Although
the Criminal Court has issued a verdict canceling a decision of the High State Security
Prosecution putting
two prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders, Dr ‘Isām al-
‘Iryān and
Muhammad Mursī, under house arrest, many criticized the group for adhering to a
vague political and
religious...
Date of source: Friday, December 8, 2006
In this article, the author warns Egyptian society against the dangers of the
expansion of the
Shī‘ah influence as it increases fitnah and doctrinal
disagreements in society
allowing space for the growth of an extremist trend in its thoughts and beliefs;
whereas the Sunnī
parties do not have...