Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The article is an
interview with Samir Marcos, a [Coptic] social researcher and political thinker. Marcos present
his views on a number of important issues such as renewal of the religious discourse, the status
of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the establishment of religious political parties.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The article is an interview with Dr. Ali Al-Samman, the Deputy of the Permanent Committee for
Inter-Religious Dialogue. Issues discussed in the interview include
inter-religious dialogue,
acts of violence, extremism, the relation between the Arab World and the West.
Date of source: Saturday, February 7, 2004
Ezzat Al-Sa’dani writes an introduction about Alija
lzetbegovic, the former president of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic. Although he was not
Arabic, he was a perfect example of a Muslim.
Alija lzetbegovic was the only person who
presented Islam through the language understood, known, spoken...
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is about a sheikh [Muslim cleric] who seduces widows and
divorced women and has illicit relationships with many of them.
Date of source:
Sheikh
Youssef El Badry caused a storm by sending a court usher [mahdar] to the head of Radio and
Television Union, and actor and talk show host Samir Sabri because of a television talk show,
Heza Al-Masa’ [This Evening] that discussed the issue of female genital mutilation [FGM]. Among
the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Refuting Islam’s association with terrorism, Minister of Endowments Muhammad Zaqzouq
explained that terrorism contradicts the tolerant principles of Islam. He also pointed out that
it is unfair to generalize and make accusation against a fifth of the world’s population as a
result of the foolish...
Date of source: Friday, February 6, 2004
The article presents the
views of a number of Muslim intellectuals such as Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, Egyptian Minister of
Awqaf [Endowments], Muhammad Ben Ya’eesh, president of the Islamic-European Chamber of Commerce,
and Ga’far Abdel Salam, the secretary general of the league of Islamic...
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is about attacks against Egypt in the US encouraged by Coptic immigrants. The author
argues that these attacks always intensifies in the periods that precedes President Mubarak
official visits to the US.
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is a criticism of Coptic activists in the US, particularly Michael Mounir, the
head of the US Copts Association.
The author explains that Mounir always takes advantage of
some incidents that take place in Egypt, which most times are false, in order to call on the U.S.
to interfere in...
Date of source: Friday, February 13, 2004
Some political experts are of the opinion
that the revisions of the Gama’a did not change on key issues such as the application of Shari’a,
[the status of] Coptic Christians, multiple-party system and the freedom of opinion and belief.
Those experts claim that the revisions of the group were...