Date of source: Sunday, October 22, 2006
The last two years witnessed increasing Western attacks on Islam. Muslim reactions, however, in many cases Muslims violent reactions, enforced the negative image of Islam. Nevertheless, some Muslim intellectuals called for peaceful reactions through changing the violent image of Islam by showing...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
More than 100 Muslim scholars and university professors signed a statement, in which they condemned the insults to the prophet’s companions, which were published by al- Ghad newspaper on October 4, 2006. The statement indicated that any attack against the prophet’s companions and wives...
Date of source: Friday, September 29, 2006
Dr. al-Bayādī reacts to the
calls for reform of the
electoral process for the position of head of the Evangelical Community Council.
Date of source: Friday, September 29, 2006
Disputes over elections in the
Evangelical Community Council caused escalating
tensions between the Assembly of Kanīsat al-
Ni‘ma [Church of Grace] and the Evangelical
Community Council in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 26, 1997
The author argues that there is a big campaign going on now in America and Israel against Egypt and the Arabs. This campaign is carried out under the name of protecting and saving the Christians of the Middle East from persecution, but is in fact aimed at stirring up sectarianism,...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Ākhir Sā‘ah opens the controversial file of religious schools in Egypt. In
an
earlier issue, several articles tackled schools of the Muslim Brotherhood, like the Muslim Generation
School in
Marsa Matrūh. This article, however, sheds light on Coptic Sunday schools.
Date of source: Friday, August 25, 2006
The leaders of al-Jihād discuss abandoning their ideology of domination.
Date of source: Sunday, July 9, 2006
This article discusses the current crisis in Western Anglicanism and notes that a focus on this ignores the fact that the majority of Christians live in the rest of the world. The author asserts that the future of Christianity lies in the churches of the global South, not the West.
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
Asmā’ ‘Abd Allāh reports on differing opinions
about
appointing a woman as head of the Anglican Church of America.
Date of source: Thursday, June 22, 2006
In an attempt to curb the sea of fatwas, the Azhar has recently submitted a proposal to the People’s Assembly, in which it called for introducing legislation to criminalize the issuance of fatwas by unqualified Muslim scholars, Muhammad Khalīl writes.