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33. Bishop Bishuy visits the governor of Alexandria to contain the sectarian sedition there
Date of source: Thursday, July 12, 2007
Bishop Bīshūy meets with the governor of Alexandria to discuss the recent tension in Muslim-Christian relations there.
30. “The Brotherhood’s party supports sectarianism and breaches the ideals of citizenship,” liberal thinkers say
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2007 to Friday, July 20, 2007
Although the Muslim Brotherhood has decided to delay the establishment of their long-awaited political party, liberal thinkers attack its political platform, warning that it supports sectarianism.
22. Secret reports sent to the Islamic Research Academy for confiscating books of poetry, literature, religion, and the human thought
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Hibah al-Sharqāwī, the author, criticizes the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy for practicing a form of intellectual terrorism when it claims the right to confiscate books not only with Islamic themes but books from all other fields as well.
21. “Removing the H&#803adith from Islam is a must,” the leader of the Qur’anis, Subh&#803i Mans&#803ur, says
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Dr. Aḥmad Subḥī Manṣūr, the leader of the Qur’ānis, calls for removal of the Sunnah from Islam because it was recorded 200 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in a time when injustice, tyranny and immorality were spread amongst people.
18. Dr. Mus&#803t&#803afá al-Shak‘ah: Mubarak’s regime is not based on Shurá and we do not accept it
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Shaymā’ ‘Abd al-Laṭīf interviewed Dr. Muṣṭafá al-Shak‘ah, member of the Islamic Research Academy, on Islamic-related issues such as his opinion on the recent controversial Fatwás, the role of the academy in censoring books, and the recent calls to purify religious books from weak Ḥadīths.
9. Coptic Orthodox laymen call for a legislative change
Date of source: Friday, July 13, 2007
Coptic Orthodox activist laymen call to change the list of rules and legislations regulating the election of the Coptic patriarch. A Coptic Orthodox member of the Council of State sent a letter to President Mubārak with suggested rules.
5. It has been quite common for Muslims and Jews to convert to Islam to avoid persecution and then leave it once the danger has passed
Date of source: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
While the majority of Muslim schools impose the death penalty on people who convert from Islam, the Qur’ān imposes no earthly punishment for conversion, andtheProphet Muhammad never killed anybody for apostasy. In the following lines Muslim thinker Jamāl al-Bannā writes about tolerance in Islam and...
3. A Coptic lawyer asks to re-form the advice and guidance committees for those who intend to convert to Islam
Date of source: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
A Coptic lawyer calls the minister of interior to re-authorize the advising and guidance committees for Christians intending convert to Islam. He highlights Egypt’s poor reputation among human rights organization’s due to rumors about forcing Coptic girls to convert to Islam.
45. The Coptic laymen’s group calls to amend the rules for the next papal election
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2007
The Coptic laymen’s group intends to issue a statement calling for the amendment to the rules that govern the next papal election, and to confine the post to monks who have not been ordained as bishops.
44. “Pope Shenouda runs the church while in bed from the U.S.,” Dr. Tharwat Basili says.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2007
The Coptic Orthodox Church affirms that Pope Shenouda III headed for Cleveland Clinic in Ohio for a kidney check up and not for surgery. Meanwhile, laymen have called to amend the bylaw of electing the patriarch, especially with the escalating fears about the pope’s health conditions.

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