Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Muhammad Al-Zawahry, Ayman Al-Zawahry’s middle brother who is now held in an Egyptian prison, is going through revisions that are similar to those carried out by the Gama’a al-Islamiya at the start of 2002 . Sources close to Muhammad reported that Muhammad has been changing his understanding of the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2004
An American judge allowed yesterday a fatwa of “the international front against Jews and the Crusades” announced by Ben Laden in 1998 to be included among the evidence directed against civil rights lawyer Lyn Stewart [Lawyer of Omar Abdel Rahman] and Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the legal deputy of the...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
In a study published in Al-Manar [the Minaret] Magazine under the title “the transitions of the Egyptian Islamic movement and its future”, Dr. Kamal Al-Sa’id Habib, a political researcher and one of the founders of the Jihad group, reviews the history of the Islamic movement in Egypt since the...
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
The Moroccan researcher Al-Moqrai Al-Idrisi Abu Zeid, a member of the parliament affiliated to the Islamic opposition party of Al-Adala wa Al-Tanmiya [Justice and development], said that the time has come for extremist violence-involved Islamic movements to carry out an ideological revision of...
Date of source: Saturday, January 11, 2003
The Ministry of Social Affairs received 300 complaints accusing directors of civil societies of embezzlement, falsifying receipts of donations to escape control and misusing mosques’ funds. Security officials warn that most of these societies are using their activities as a cover to support...
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 2004
The Gama’a Al-Islamiya [Islamic Group] in Egypt strongly condemned the Sinai
bombings, describing them as arbitrary and inapt. The statement came at a time where both public
and official opinion renounced the act, including the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Research
Institute. The latter...
Date of source: Friday, January 16, 2004
Al-Wafd
reviews the main points of the all-inclusive revisions presented by theGama’a Al-Islamiya and its
eight historical leaders. Before examining to what extent these revisions have contributed to the
support of democratic development, Al-Wafd is providing an objective presentation of the...
Date of source: Friday, January 16, 2004
Al-Wafd continues discussing the attitudes of Islamic movements towards the issue of democracy and renouncement of violence. The Gama’a Al-Islamiya has always played a tough, significant, role in the Egyptian social and political life since it joined the Jihad group in an alliance, which led to the...
Date of source: Friday, January 30, 2004
Al-Wafd continues discussing the attitude of Islamic movements towards the issues of democracy, the disavowing of violence and turning to peaceful action. During the last few years, attempts to establish two Islamic political parties, Al-Islah Party [Reformation Party] and Al- Sharia Party [Sharia...
Date of source: Sunday, April 25, 2004
Mountaser Al-Zayyat, the lawyer of the fundamentalist groups in Egypt, stated thatKhaled Al-Islamboly, the assassin of Sadat, was not a member of Al-Jihad organization or of the Gama’a Islamiya; he was closely linked to Muhammad Abdel Salam Farag, leader of Al-Jihad in 1981.