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The press report that the Muslim Brotherhood have spent 28 million LE on election propaganda, and that their slogan, ’Islam is the solution’, is simply used to avoid providing detailed solutions to Egypt’s problems.
The Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies (ICDS), headed by Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, has failed to link 10 local human right organizations into the new network for development and democracy.
One of the protesters, Muhammad ‘Abd al-Mon‘im, 30, said he was forced to leave his country and leave everything he possessed to come to Egypt with his family after the war crushed their nation and security risks reached their peak.
Christians throw the ball in the Muslims’ court when they say that the street is thronging with audiotapes that attack their beliefs in public without the least consideration for their feelings. Some Muslims say that such cassettes are simply a reaction to Christian attacks on Islam.
Many Muslims and Christians enter each other’s places of worship in order to condole friends over the death of relatives or to congratulate them on the occasions of weddings. The author states that the proximity between churches and mosques has no bearing on sectarian tensions.
Fārouq al-Tawīl argues that the press are responsible for much of the sectarian sedition in Egypt, and that until it behaves in a responsible, informative, non-sensationalist fashion, events like the Alexandria violence will continue.
A discussion of the reaction of the Egyptian press to the events in Alexandria, where Muslims demonstrated against a play, produced by the Mar Girgis Church, that they considered offensive to Islam.
It is argued that the solutions offered by the Muslim Brotherhood to deal with the nation’s problems are a far cry from Islam, since the group’s founder, Hasan al-Bannā, took what he needed from Islam strictly to serve his political project: reaching power by force.
Dr. Muhammad Fattouh argues that the hijāb is a key element to the period of historical transition Egyptian society is going through.
The author argues that the Saudi Wahābīs are using their petrodollars to propagate Islam as a religion of violence and extremism, and not one of science, modern technology and innovation.

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