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Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2011
A salafist said Wā’il Nūr, a state security officer, has asked him to bomb the al-‘Umrānīya church to “straighten up” Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III.
The remarks were made by Shaykh Abū Yahyá during his testimony in the Kāmīliyā Shihātah case in a session that lasted for six hours.
Abū Yahyá...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Yaḥyā al-Jamāl, Deputy Prime Minister, said that a national dialogue, launched from March 30, 2011, will have no restrictions.
He added that in the dialogue, religious freedom and places of worship will be discussed. Furthermore, the fair representation of women and Copts will also be discussed.
At...
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2010
Pope Shenouda insisted that the Secular Copts group who recently proposed a draft personal status law neither represents the Coptic Orthodox people nor the Church.
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Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā said that Islam does not know religious state and called for criminal trials to those who cut off the Coptic citizen's ear, describing them as criminals.
He also said that the 'Atfih church was the first one to be torched in Islamic history.
He added that secularism is not...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
How can the perceived threat of Islamists be blunted? They should be encouraged to integrate themselves.
At the same time they should be convinced of the need to espouse the principles of citizenship and equal rights for all – rules already enshrined in Islam.
Meanwhile parties should not be...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Azhar Scholars Front demanded the resignation of Yaḥyā al-Jamāl, Deputy Prime Minister, for speaking sacrilegiously about God.
Al-Jamāl had said on a TV program that if God came on earth and entered the referendum he [God] will get 70 percent, and he [God] has to thank God for that.
Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2011
Edward Cody, writer in the Washington Post, writes that the biggest winners of the [January] 25 revolution are the Salafists. He described them as Islamic fundamentalists who would like to see the strictest form of Islam applied to all of Egypt and across the Middle East.
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2011
Mamdūḥ Ismā'īl, Islamic attorney, launched a campaign to collect signatures that support the discharge of Yaḥyā al-Jamāl, Deputy Prime Minister, accusing him of blasphemy.
Ismāʿīl collected one hundred thousand signatures from the governorates of Cairo, Giza, al-Qalyūbiyya, and Alexandria.
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Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2011
A group of Cairo based lawyers accused Deputy Prime Minister Yaḥyā al-Jamāl of having insulted Islam in a TV talk show on March 14. They charge al-Jamāl with committing a civil crime and aim to evoke the blasphemy law against him, which allows for a maximum penalty of three years imprisonment.
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2011
Egypt's right groups, legal experts and revolutionaries on 24 March 2011 balked at the government's approval of a draft law to criminalize protests.
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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.