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Egyptian TV series ?Knight without a Horse,? is still raising an issue. Egypt and other Arab countries have
aired the series despite Israeli objection and American pressure. The American and Israeli embassies in Egypt decided
to watch the series to judge whether it contains anything that can be...
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Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt stress that the future general guide will be chosen from among the members of the
?Guidance Committee,? who are all Egyptians. Leaders of the international Brotherhood group object to confining the
position of the general guide to Egyptian leaders.
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Egyptian TV
series ?Knight without a Horse? causes a major controversy because it is allegedly based on the book ?Protocols of the
Elders of Zion.? Many Jewish groups object to the airing of the series. They asked the US Secretary of State to
pressure the Egyptian government to prevent its...
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Mustafa Mashhour,
the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, has been diagnosed as having a blood clot in the brain and is expected to
die. Brotherhood members refuse to answer questions concerning his successor. Observers recognize three candidates and
one of them is the official spokesman of...
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American minister Jerry Falwell apologized to Muslims for what he said about Prophet
Muhammad being a terrorist. Some papers believe that Falwell?s statement is part of the campaign against Islām and
shows how Zionism is rooted in American Christianity.
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Students at the University of North Carolina are
required to read Michael Seller?s "Approaching the Qur?an: The Early Revelations," for their summer reading program.
Some conservative Christian organizations brought an action against the university in an attempt to prevent teaching
the book....
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The Supreme State Security Court sentenced
Saad Eddin Ibrahim to seven years in jail on the charge of receiving donations from the European Union without having
a legal permission. Ibrahim expressed his surprise at the fact that the court gave its ruling in a very short time and
said the...
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The US Copts Association issued a statement emphasizing its commitment
to Egyptian issues and its support for the Palestinian issue. It declared its solidarity with the Palestinian people
in their struggle to free their land from Israeli occupation. The statement also refuted claims about its...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
The editor-in-chief of al-Mussawar met with the imprisoned leaders of the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah. The meeting focused on the initiative to stop violence, its motives and the ideological revisions carried out by the group. The leaders apologized to the Egyptian people for the crimes they committed...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 5, 2002
The Holiness Revival Church condemned one of their pastors and punished him for his misbehavior. The pastor, in turn, filed a complaint with the Evangelical Community Council (Majlis el-Milli) that, in turn, suspended the work of the executive bureau of the Holiness Revival Church in Egypt. The...