Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2005
Youssef Sidhom discusses discrimination against the Copts in Egypt, and wonders why it is only in Washington that this issue is being discussed.
Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2005
Sulaymān Shafīq argues that according to the 1995 statistics [Reviewer's note: The author perhaps was mistaken because the statistics were conducted in 1996, not 1995, as Christian surveys are usually made every 10 years and the last ones took place in 1986], Copts represent 22.5 percent of the...
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The author examines ‘Amr Khālid’s connections to the middle and upper class Egyptians and his new brand of televised piety.
Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2005
A paper by the Cairo-based National Center for Social and Criminal Studies in 1985 claimed that 98 percent of Muslims and 68 percent of Christians approved application of the Islamic shari‘a, and so the author claims that the application of the Islamic shari‘a is an Egyptian demand.
Date of source: Saturday, October 8, 2005
Religious hymns have a long history, but in its current form, a young British Muslim named Sami Yousuf has a remarkably successful career in the field, after releasing his first album in 2003 in Europe.
Date of source: Saturday, October 8, 2005
Husayn ‘Abd al-Wāhid argues that though westerners condemn terrorism, they turn a blind eye to non-Muslim extremists, such American Evangelical, Pat Robertson, who called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Date of source: Thursday, October 6, 2005
American Ambassador to Egypt, Francis J. Ricciardone met yesterday with the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī and congratulated him on the beginning of Ramadān.
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2005
The author discusses the three levels of flagrant inequality between Copts and Muslims in terms of their citizenship rights, arguing that though the situation is dismal, great efforts must be made to correct imbalances between Christians and Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2005
Television program brings together a variety of Arab youths to discuss their opinions on the U.S.
Date of source: Saturday, October 1, 2005
An article in response to Muslims who gloated over U.S.’s misfortunes. One of the ancient scholars of Islam, Abu Hāmid al-Ghazālī, said gloating is the most extreme form of envy, for it breeds a venomous hatred of others. Envy is unequivocally prohibited in Islam.