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A group of terrorists carried out their threats and slaughtered Egypt’s top envoy to Iraq Ambassador Īhāb al-Sharīf. The Egyptian late Ambassador was born on the first of January 1954, and graduated from the Lycee France’. He has been working for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1976.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Muslims have many difficulties with modernity perhaps because Muslims believe that they should not achieve anything but should receive the achievements of others. This is a feature of the simple Bedouin life where the Bedouin does not work and waits for the work of nature, like rain or eruption of...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 2004
According to officials in Athens, the number of Muslim women participating in this year’s Games is the lowest since 1960. Several Muslim countries have sent no women athletes at all; others, such as Iran, are taking part with only one, in full hijab. (Editor’s Note: Egypt sent three women; all in...
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
An Egyptian Islamist who holds Pakistani citizenship demanded that he be transferred from Abu Za’bal prison [in Egypt] to Guantanamo detention center in Cuba, where almost 580 Qa’ida and Taliban detainees are imprisoned, claiming that he would receive better treatment there. He claimed that he is...
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
Almost ten months after the release of the leader of Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya in Egypt Karam Zohdy , informed fundamentalist sources have revealed that Egyptian authorities have also released Usama Hafiz, one of the historical leaders of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya and a key founder of the group.
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 2004
The Family Library [Maktabet Al-Osra] released a new book by Rifa’at Al-Sa’id in which he tracks the phenomenon of political Islam over many years attempting to position it in its intellectual social and historical context. “The Islamized…what have they done to Islam and to us?” is the title of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Let’s quickly look at some quotations from the writings of Sayyed Qutb.
In his book “Al-Islam wa Mushkelat Al-Hadara” [Islam and the dilemmas of civilization], Qutb wrote “A thousand books about Islam, a thousand sermons in mosques and a thousand films about Islam are not enough. Creating a small...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 2004
I believe that those who call for cooperation between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Nasserists are wise people. Some people insist on remaining hostages of the past. Things have changed and the views of the Brotherhood today in the early twenty-first century are totally different from their views...
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The assassination of Ihāb al-Sharīf has triggered numerous reactions from religious quarters, particularly regarding relations between the Islam endorsed by those who killed him, and the rest of Muslim society.
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The first annual report of the National Council for Human Rights, which depended mainly on the reports of the more experienced civil society organizations and their demands and recommendations during the past 20 years, was so frail that it is acting as an organization strictly receiving complaints...