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Date of source: Saturday, February 22, 2003 to Friday, February 28, 2003
A letter to the editor from students in Suez governorate. They complain about the loudspeakers used in a mosque controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood and the “destructive” lectures given there.
Date of source: Sunday, February 16, 2003
An inspector for the Ministry of Endowments gives the opinion that women are religiously allowed to pray and fast during menstruation. He is judged for giving similar “strange” opinions. A professor at the Azhar University says that he is an apostate who should be killed if his apostasy threatens...
Date of source: Monday, February 10, 2003
In a symposium titled “Renewing religious discourse,” former dean of the Faculty of Mass Communication [no university mentioned], said that prayer rooms and mosques, that are not under the surveillance of the Ministry of Endowments, are one of the main reasons behind the spread of terrorist groups...
Date of source: Saturday, January 18, 2003
The British Charity Committee accuses Abu-Hamza Al-Misri, leader of the Ansar Al-Shari’a [advocates of the Islamic law] group, of turning the mosque where he preaches into a center for extremists. Al-Misri says he will resist plans aiming to dismiss him from being the imam of the mosque.
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2003
The Dutch People´s Party for Freedom and Democracy [VVD] demands that the flow of incoming imams for mosques in The Netherlands from Islamic countries be halted, starting in the year 2007. It also demands to forbid giving work permits for imams coming from outside the country.
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar approves that women can be judges, muftis and members of the Islamic Research Institute. He stressed that cloning human beings is impermissible. He believes that God may have given Amr Khaled the gift of preaching or perhaps people are impressed by his new way of addressing...
Date of source: Thursday, September 8, 2005
The Minister of Awqāf has held a meeting to discuss ways of ending the Brotherhood’s control over a number of professional syndicates and mosques.
Date of source: Saturday, August 13, 2005 to Friday, August 19, 2005
For those who wish to pray at the al-‘Azīz Billah mosque in the district of al-Zaytoun, all work and family engagements are impossible until after the al-<sup’c< sup’asr="" [afternoon]="" prayers,="" due="" to="" the="" length="" of="" friday="" prayer="" sermon="" which,="" is="" no="" less...
Date of source: Saturday, August 6, 2005 to Friday, August 12, 2005
An answer to Tāriq Hajī’s letter to the Minister of Endowments, published in Rose al-Yousuf, issue no.4018, entitled "How to let al-Shaf‘ī and Abu Hanifa triumph over Ibn Taymia?"
Date of source: Friday, July 29, 2005
There are some 50,000 preachers working behind the scenes. Their task is tough and they face many problems ranging from low pay to political censorship.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.