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9. Islam is quickly spreading in the United States. US schools admit Muslim students’ rights to pray
Date of source: 20 Mar 1999
By Esther Shred
Years back, the US schools did not provide their Muslim students with places for praying. Today, Muslim students have their own places of worship at school. This happened as a result of the quick spread of Islam in the US. California, for example, witnessed the biggest conference in its history...
20. Morality cops in the classroom: AUC’s censorship dilemma prompts hard-line state response
Date of source: 18 Mar 1999 to 31 Mar 1999
By Joseph Logan
Last May [1998], students in an American University in Cairo (AUC) course on Muslim politics complained about Maxime Rodinson’s biography "Muhammad". In less than 24 hours after a columnist decried its teaching as blasphemous, Ministry of Higher Education Minister Mufeed Shehab ordered the...
4. London militants released
Date of source: 25 Mar 1999 to 31 Mar 1999
By Jaylān Hallāwī
British authorities released three Islamist militants on Friday, arrested just four days earlier. They included two Egyptians: Mustafa Kamel, better known as Abu-Hamza Al-Masry, leader of Ansar Al-Sharia (Advocates of Islamic Law) group, and Yasser Serri, sentenced to death in absentia by an...
5. British radicals urge Muslims to fight back
Date of source: 25 Mar 1999 to 31 Mar 1999
By Daniel Simpson
Wiping sweat from his brow with a cloth clasped between the metal claws that have replaced hands lost fighting the Russians in Afghanistan, Abu Hamzah Al Masry took the stage. "Islam needs the sword," he declared, prompting a feverish chorus of "Allah Akhbar" (God is great) from more than 400...
18. Jibran Khalil Jibran’s "The Prophet": Confiscation of a book which Egyptians have been reading for 70 years
Date of source: 27 Mar 1999 to 2 Apr 1999
By Wa’el Lofty
Censorship bans 425 books, sending 70 of them to Al-Azhar. Teachers at the American University: The Censors didn’t understand the political books they confiscated. Banning of Agatha Christie’s novels for five months. Will the fundamentals consider what happened last week as a new victory? Perhaps...
2. The Holy Qur’an and the follies of Al-Muta’slimeen.
Date of source: 3 Apr 1999 to 9 Apr 1999
By Wahīd Hāmid
[Editor: Muta’slimeen are people claiming knowledge of Islam. They put up a show] The Holy Qur’an is God’s word. And when the Almighty speaks we must listen with respect and solemnity. We must try to understand the aim and wisdom of God and his constitution which guides people to the right way and...
3. The sheikhs of censorship are not the soldiers of Allah
Date of source: 3 Apr 1999 to 9 Apr 1999
By Sayyid al-Qimnī
There are still some sheikhs who seek to put Al-Azhar on the highest level of censorship authorities, an authority that [not only] censors opinion, arts or ideology but also censors belief considering Al-Azhar to be its protector. The weakness of civil institutions has given Al-Azhar more power...
5. Hamas gains at Fat-h’s expense
Date of source: 1 Apr 1999 to 7 Apr 1999
By Khalid Amayrih
Fat-h, the backbone of the Palestinian Authority (PA), suffered a significant setback in recent student elections in universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in what some observers say reflects plummeting support among ordinary Palestinians for the policies of the PA led by President Yasser...
6. Light at the end of the tunnel?
Date of source: 1 Apr 1999 to 7 Apr 1999
By Khaled Dawoud
After nearly two years of dithering, reported internal splits and a worldwide crackdown led by the United States, Egypt’s largest militant organization, Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiyya, issued a statement on 25 March announcing its decision to renounce anti-government violence. "All units of Al-Gama’a...
7. Gama’a Islamiyya
Date of source: 1 Apr 1999 to 14 Apr 1999
By No Author Mentioned
The Gama’a Islamiyya has decided to halt military operations in response to appeals by its imprisoned spiritual leader and founders, Agence France Presse reported March 26. The announcement was timed to coincide with the start of the Muslim feast of Al-Adha, which began March 27. The decision was...
10. The prophets are the guests of the Sharaqwa [people from Sharqeyya Province]
Date of source: 3 Apr 1999 to 9 Apr 1999
By Muhammad Jamal al-Din
The Province of Sharqeyya is the birth place of Ahmed ’Orabi a man that if the Khedive Tawfiq had known that his promotion to Admiral in 1879 would cause him all these troubles in the future, he would not have been promoted at all. On September 9, 1881 Ahmed ’Orabi the son of the village of Haria...
13. Abu Tig says no to the claims of the West
Date of source: 5 Apr 1999
By Muhammad Ṣafwat ‘Abd al-Karīm
In spite of the attempts of the Western media to distort the image of Egypt under the allegations of the persecution of Copts, we dealt with this issue in a superficial way, we didn’t try to explore the deep-rooted relation between Copts and Muslims. In Abu Tig, the picture was so touching. A...
14. Businesswoman makes it to the top
Date of source: 25 Mar 1999 to 31 Mar 1999
By Āmāl Abū Sitta
Odette Skandar [a Christian entrepreneur], president of Egypt and Middle East Company, was chosen to be recognized as one of The Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World at the Third Annual Gala and Celebration in the Principality of Monaco from April 26-29, 1999. The honor is given by the American...
15. Marriage, politics and Jerusalem
Date of source: 1 Apr 1999 to 7 Apr 1999
By Hānī Shukrallāh
In an exclusive interview, Pope Shenouda III speaks frankly to Al-Ahram Weekly about the national role of the Church, the new draft Personal Status law, and other controversial issues. Several years of negotiations between the various Christian denominations in Egypt culminated recently in an...
18. A prayer in the day of the Cross
Date of source: 5 Apr 1999
By ‘Azzah Muharib Malik
Words of prayer written by the author about God’s love that leads Jesus Christ to the Cross
19. Texts from the banned "Al-Nabi" book
Date of source: 3 Apr 1999 to 9 Apr 1999
By ʿAbd Allāh Kamāl
Welcome to Ignorance * Toleration of "Al-Qaramouty" culture, and confiscation of Jibran Khaleel Jibran’s novel. * How was "Awlaad Haaritna" banned, and a book that harshly criticizes Naguib Mahfouz allowed? * The new fundamentalist game: I am here through confiscation. * At the end of the...
1. Don’t miss the Pillars
Date of source: 1 Apr 1999 to 14 Apr 1999
By No Author Mentioned
An Alexandria prosecutor has decided to charge 19 members of a dissident sect for religious contempt, judicial officials announced on 25 March. The sect’s leader, Mohammed Ibrahim Mahfouz, 60, preached that he was God on Earth and so had the power to modify the pillars of Islam - his followers only...
2. The Sheikh of Al-Azhar to Al-Musawar: The new Personal Affairs Law gives the woman her rights and divorce -Al-Khul’a- does not seem unfair to her
Date of source: 9 Apr 1999
By Sanā’ al-Sa‘īd
Q. "You were very enthusiastic about the issue of divorce (Al-Khul’a ). What I want to ask is what do you mean by (Al-Khul’a )? That the wife has to give up all her financial rights in return for the divorce?" A. "Al-Khul’a is legally known in Islam. It is also presented in the new law with all...
3. Lying about the Prophet
Date of source: 10 Apr 1999 to 16 Apr 1999
By Sayyid al-Qimnī
" Why did Al-Bukhary refuse to record 596 thousand Hadith? " And why did Abu Haneefa only correct 17 Hadith? Dr. Mohammed Sayyid Tantawi, the Grand Imam and Al-Azhar Sheikh has decided to take upon himself, through his insistence on true Islam and exposure of its bright and tolerant face, some of...
4. The Belly Dancers Sheikhs and the Sheikhs
Date of source: 11 Apr 1999
By Salah al-Ma‘adawi
I did not care for those actresses or belly dancers who gave up their profession since they are free to do whatever they want according to their own vision. However, I find strange when some of them say they are ashamed of their former job although they are still spending the millions they earned...

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