Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2006
Despite having been banned by the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy, Natana J. Delong-Bas’s ‘Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global
Jihad’ has received massive support from the Saudi government. Hanān Sulaymān provides a book review.
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
The author warns against Islamic extremists and the danger they pose to the world, suggesting that
Islam nowadays poses the same threat as fascism in 1930s.
Date of source: Saturday, November 3, 2001 to Friday, November 9, 2001
The article is the text of a statement by the Islamic Research Institute about Islam’s attitude towards terrorism. The statement points out that dialogue and understanding among nations and countries is the only way to keep the variation of cultures and civilizations, which is a law of God....
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) issued a report titled "Egypt’s Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America," The title implies that many if not most Azhar scholars declared war on America. Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi stressed that this was certainly not true. He said that the report...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
Sheikh Fawzy Al-Said is the mufti of a newly formed Islamic group called Al-Wa’d. He issued many cassette tapes in which he asks Muslims to join the jihad and fight against other foreign countries which he describes as "The anti Christ." He gave some fatwas demanding that Muslims who belong to the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 29, 2001 to Friday, October 5, 2001
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Taliban is challenging the greatest power in the world. Is it imaginable that the helpless Afghans, without food, clothes and medicines, will be transformed into powerful fighters? He is doing wrong to the Jihad, to Islam and the Muslims by dragging them...
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2001
The author pointed out the many moral principles of Islam, stressing that what is said in the Western media about Islam being a religion that encourages aggression, extremism, fanaticism, killing and terrorism is a baseless calumny. He added that the recent attacks in America are a hateful crime...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Rushdī Abu al-Hasan reviews a book by an American researcher about Wahābism entitled “Wahabi Islam, From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad,” describing it as a very positive attempt to examine an Islamic movement.
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
Douglas Murray warns that Europe should beware, since Islamists in the Netherlands are succeeding in intimidating and silencing critics.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
The article is an interview with the Mufti of Egypt, Dr. Ali Goma´a. He comments on many subjects, such as, the concept of legitimate war in Islam, martyrdom operations, the Iraqi Ruling Council, the Iraqi resistance against American occupation, emergency laws and the relationship between...