Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 2004
The Egyptian minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments] Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq denied reports in an independent Egyptian newspapers claiming the presence of American pressure on Egypt to limit the construction of mosques.
On another level, the Azhar strongly denied what an independent Egyptian...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 2004
Dr. Rifa’at Al-Sa’id, head of the Tagammu Party, and Mahdi Akef, the Brotherhood Supreme Guide, exchanged accusations. Al-Sa’id explained that he insists on his accusation that the Brotherhood wants to cooperate with America and that the relation between the Brotherhood and America is old. Al-Said...
Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 2004
Each faithful and rational Muslim has to question the intentions of who behead hostages [in Iraq] do. The aim of these actions is distorting the image of Arabs and Muslims. For me this is tarnishing the image of Islam, which is the spiritual source for Islamic presence in this world.
At the same...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2004
Watani International met with the Grand Mufti of the Republic, Dr. Ali Goma’a, during his visit to London in which he headed a delegation comprising Dr. Muhammad Abu Lila, Dr. Gaffar Abdel Salam and Dr. Zaghloul Al-Naggar. The objective of the visit, as the Grand Mufti stated during a seminar held...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
The first strike Muslims received was the issuing of the first edition of the book ِAl-Forqan Al-Haq [The true Qur’an in the United States and distributing copies of it in occupied Palestine. The last strike was directed to Egypt after the American Administration demanded printing the new...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 2004
The American University in Cairo put a condition on its application that prospective female students should not wear the niqab or the face cover. Deputies in the Egyptian parliament, including the Muslim Brotherhood deputies, submitted a request of information to Dr. Moufid Shihab, the minister of...
Date of source: Monday, July 5, 2004
On June 29-30, the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Developmental Studies held a conference to discuss reform in Egypt and the region. The conference was attended by members of the American and the Israeli embassies as well as representatives of USAID. During the conference, participants expressed their...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
Arabs and Muslims are searching their history, and they are dealing with today’s events with a mentality dating to many centuries ago. The key problem we are suffering off, is that the world, through fast communications, turned into a small global village of different races and religions and common...
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 2004
Millions of Arab and Muslim children are the product of the culture of extremism, hatred of the ‘other’ and imaginary superiority. This culture is created in thousands of schools and mosques through half-educated sheikhs and teachers. How can Arab and Muslims entrust the minds of their boys and...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 2004
At the same time that the Brotherhood denies flattering America in order for the Brotherhood to be included in the agenda of reform in the Arab World, Dr. Abdel Mon’em Abu Al-Fotouh, a prominent Brotherhood figure, presented an Islamic view of reform in which he flattered America and marketed the...