Date of source: Saturday, October 5, 2002
A Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary member asked the Egyptian prime minister to follow the example of the American president and prevent the mixing of boys and girls in schools.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services organized a seminar on whether the role of religion changed because of globalization. Islamic thinker Selim Al-Awa assured that religion has a role to play at all times. The Jesuit father Henry Boulad said that modernism is a challenge to...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Dr. Abdel-Mo´ti Bayoumi expressed the opinion that Muslims need to adopt a religious discourse that can reconcile them with the whole world. He added that all scholars have the right to give fatwas and even women can give fatwas.
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2002
[The name Showman is a translitteration from the Arabic. It could also be Schoemann]
Date of source: Friday, February 8, 2002
It was reported that America asked some Islamic countries to develop their religious education and that an American-British delegation had visited the Azhar to get acquainted with its curricula. The papers reported such news items play a negative role, as they give the impression that the mission...
Date of source: Friday, January 18, 2002
America thinks that Israelis are Semites, and by supporting Israel, it is supporting Semitism. America thinks that whoever does not support Israel is anti-Semitic. Since Arabs do not support Israel, they are anti-Semitic. The author believes that it is nonsense to say that Arabs are anti-Semitic...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
President of the Azhar University responds to George Bush Jr. He demands that Islamic leaders contend against Western allegations and Western accusations against Islam and Muslims. He adds that those allegations and accusations have reached a point where the West is demanding the closing of the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 12, 2002 to Friday, January 18, 2002
Almost one month after the September 11 attacks, a British delegation asked to visit the Azhar and its institutes, and conduct interviews with students to know their opinions and beliefs. The president of the division of the Azhari institutes told the delegation that the main significance of the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 12, 2002 to Friday, January 18, 2002
In this article, the Egyptian Minister of Education comments on the fear that the United States will start interfering in the education system of Arab countries like Egypt because they embrace Islam as the national religion. He said that no person, government or organization has the right to...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The American Administration asked some Arab countries to amend their school curriculums. This story did not start with the September 11 incidents but began some months before when the US State Department made a study, in cooperation with the European Union (EU), of the curriculums for the different...