Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
Next Saturday, Egypt will witness an event that radiates national unity. Patriarch of Alexandria, Pope Shenouda, Sheikh of Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Mufti of the Republic, Ali Goma’a will come together in a hall at the Police Academy in Abassiya to attend the discussion of Dr. Nabil...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
I feel that British intellectuals are divided. One group, which includes Bernard Lewis, takes a hostile attitude towards Islam and propagates anti-Islam thoughts in universities and research centers. The other group, which includes Alfred Holiday, understands the reality of Islam and defends it,...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
Every time I visit my homeland Egypt, I witness the same misery. I ask them is the church in Mallawi closed and they answer “Unfortunately, yes.” We feel oppressed and deprived because our Muslim brothers have more space to pray than we do, although we make up ninety percent of the area’s...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
In the wake of the events of [11] September, American security apparatus have dealt with any Arab Muslim as a suspect until he is can be proved innocent.
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
Many Muslim thinkers and scholars have occupied themselves with the issue of democracy in Western civilization and its comparison with the Islamic system of shura [consultation], especially after the proposed U.S. reform project known as the Greater Middle East was introduced. This study examines...
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2004
Muhammad Emara tried in his column the Friday before last in Al-Akhbar newspaper to withdraw the insults he directed against Christianity, the faith of a large segment of Egyptian society. We find his attempt - as a whole - positive, and we hope that he will never in the future return [to such...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Some foreign organizations that advocate freedom of individuals to be homosexual have increased pressure on Egypt to recognize gay rights, regardless of how applicable this idea is to different societies. Human rights organizations in Egypt have reaffirmed the Egyptian society’s conservative...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Some human rights organizations believe that the Egyptian government violated the rights of a group of Egyptian youth who were practicing homosexual relationships. The objection displayed by these human rights organizations raises critical issues that result from cultural differences within the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Each nation has its own special culture and beliefs. It is true that there is a common human culture but, still, some basic differences remain.
The file of homosexuality is still open and the issue is raised every now and then in reports released by outside human rights organizations. This file...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
The change that Saad Eddin Ibrahim advocates aims at only one thing: that extremists reach power. He was recently quoted in the newspapers as saying, “Extremists in power are better than the ruling dictatorships that are present now.”
It is as if Ibrahim wants to take revenge against the state,...