Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The defense team of Dr. Omar Abdel Al-Rahman, the spiritual leader of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya imprisoned in the US, started the procedures for filing a lawsuit against the Egyptian government for what it called “Its lagging in requesting the US to extradite Adel Rahman.” Abdel Rahman is serving a...
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 2004
The book “America and Britain in the prophecies of the Holy Book,” written by an American priest named Herbert Armstrong, shows the religious foundation of the claim that the American cowboys and the British are the chosen people of God. The author claims that they are the descendants of Abraham...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The book “Al-Gharb wa Al-Alam Al-Islami” [The West and the Islamic World] is a legitimate tool that can be used to defend Islamic identity, faith and civilization that are being attacked under the pretext of [being a breeding ground for] terrorism.
The Egyptian author Salwa Bakr co-authored this...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Today we will look at the means to restore trust between the Islamic World and the West. There is no inherent gulf between the Islamic World and the West but the current obstacles standing before restoring trust between the Islamic World and the West must be removed.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Fundamentalism is a political heresy created by a group of people who want to be distinguished from others. They regard the killing of their opponents as lawful and aim to prevail over weak-mined people with allegedly divine law. Certain foreign bodies have supported and financed this heresy. The...
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 2004
During my summer vacation, I spent some time reading a book titled “Al-Islam wa Al-Dimocratiya fi Ma’raket Al-Binaa Al-Hadari” [Islam and Democracy in the battle of Building Civilization” by the Iraqi author Muhammad Abdel Gabbar. Abdel Gabbar says that Islamic civilization started when Islam...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
The Azhar takes over the responsibility of clarifying the true image of Islam and correcting misconceptions about it. The Azhar sends envoys to different countries world-wide in order to carry out the responsibility of preaching true Islam, which is why it chooses those envoys very carefully.
The...
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 2004
The presence of Christian communities in the midst of Islamic society proves that the oppression that Christians faced from era to era at the hands of extremists and bigots was the outcome of local conditions more so than being a consequence of extremist principles [of Islam] or intolerance…”
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Islamic groups are exploiting the bad conditions Muslim live in today in order to obtain more authority and power through religion. They misguidedly refer everything back to religion, and they falsely claim that Muslims were triumphant when they abided strictly to the teachings of Islam and that it...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
This year, Arabs and Muslims have a very good opportunity at the Frankfurt International Book Fair. Thousands of European thinkers, scholars, and intellectuals will gather in this fair. The main theme of the book fair is Arab civilization, Arab and Islamic issues and the contributions of Arabs and...