Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
Dr. Ahmad al
-Tayyib, President of the Azhar University, talks in al-Musawwar about the legality of a woman leading prayer, the Western
demands for a change in the Azhar curricula, and reports that Jihād verses were omitted from the Azhar curricula.
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Muhammad Ra’fat
‘Uthmān, the rapporteur of the fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] Research Committee at the Islamic Research Academy, issued a
fatwa rendering halāl [permissible] the use of genetic engineering technologies to determine the sex of the fetus.
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
What happens if we ignored the
attacks that the American media launched on Egypt? We tried all the ways and means to fight off their accusations, why not
try something else?
Date of source: Tuesday, March 1, 2005 to Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Eleven organizations for human
rights reported to the Attorney General the death of a lady named Nafīsa, in one of the Buhayra villages, following the
abuse of a police officer called, Muhammad ‘Abd al-Hamīd ‘Ammār. The story triggered outcries from the people of
Buhayra to all people of the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
Sacd al-Dīn
Ibrāhīm, one of Egypt’s most prominent activists and human rights crusaders, has challenged his country’s leaders
for most of his life. He was imprisoned from 2000 to 2003 on charges that were criticized internationally as being
politically motivated. Ibrāhīm is writing his memoirs...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
President Husnī Mubārak responded to this call by amending the article 76 of the constitution to allow for multi-candidate presidential elections. However, in order to proceed with the elections in an incorrupt fashion, the Egyptian press must regain its freedom, which it had lost ever since the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Although the operative constitutions and laws in Europe and the US guarantee the freedom of expression and manifestation, still they are circumscribed. A manifestation must be nonviolent and cannot keep people from assuming their affairs, hinder the traffic flow, or ruin public property.
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2005
Al-Usbou‘ of March 14, 2005 has severely attacked without any sense of decorum the organizations that received a one-million-dollar grant from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
The paper even accused recipients of the grant of “betraying the nation” and the ministry of social affairs of slackness as to...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 22, 2005
For a long time, Israel and the United States have been trying to attack Islam to the extent that Israel is officially requesting that the US pressurize Muslims to stop Jews from converting to Islam. However, a Hebrew newspaper published that Islam is still widely spreading in an astonishing way.
Date of source: Friday, March 18, 2005
Dr. Carl W. Ernst, a specialist in Islamic Studies, at the University of North Carolina has affirmed that the US is now witnessing an increasing number of those who wish to explore and know more about Islam.