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25. The law of the new family court raises fiqh-based and legal controversy about the return of the religious courts
Date of source: 6 Jun 2003
By Muḥammad Khalīl
A controversy has been raised due to the application of the family court law, effective next October. Some argue that this court is considered a step towards the return of the previously existing religious courts in which specialist judges were concerned in settling family problems. The other party...
26. Pictures of Jesus Christ and the Last Supper cause a conflict in the Coptic Church
Date of source: 7 Jun 2003 to 13 Jun 2003
By Aḥmad Bāshā
Many of the traditional icons of the Orthodox Church representing Jesus Christ crucified and the Last Supper have been recently changed. New crucifixion icons show Jesus Christ with nails in his wrists not hands. Such a change raised many questions among Orthodox Christians, especially as some...
27. After 20 years, Pope Shenouda to visit Upper Egypt
Date of source: 6 Jun 2003
By No Author Mentioned
For the first time in 20 years Pope Shenouda promised to visit Upper Egypt. He said in his weekly meeting that he would visit the Sohag governorate to consecrate the restored monastery of Anba Shenouda. The pope added that he has no objection to visiting Upper Egypt governorates. However he prefers...
6. Religion and its role in global relations and disputes: The continuous crisis of religious speech
Date of source: 14 Jun 2003
By Nabīl ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ
Have the policies of religion and the issue of religious speech and thought been affected by the events of September 11 and the war on Iraq? The policies of religion and religious speeches approaches of the official religious institution were little affected by the events of September 11....
7. Deleting 12,000 topics from the list of sermons of Saudi mosques due to US pressure
Date of source: 16 Jun 2003
By al-Ḥussayn Muḥammad
The article is an overview of Robert Baer’s recent book ’Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Its Soul for Saudi Crude" The author calls Baer a former agent of the CIA. The book discusses the relation between the US and Saudi Arabia. He discloses some CIA confidential operations reflecting...
8. American press wonders: Where is religious tolerance and human rights in the US? And so do we
Date of source: 15 Jun 2003
By Rajab al-Banna
The author believes that the US contradicts itself as it launches wars and pressures other countries to apply its concepts of democracy, human rights and religious tolerance while it violates all these concepts. He gives overviews of articles in American papers to support his argument. These...
9. Tharwat Al-Kharabawy broke from the Muslim Brotherhood and reveals secrets: Al-Hudaiby dreams of ruling Egypt
Date of source: 14 Jun 2003
By No Author Mentioned
Subtitle: Al-Hudaiby is the guide of the decline [of the group], Hamid Abu Al-Nasr is the guide of the absence [of the group from the political scene] and Mustafa Mashhour is the guide of crises [as the group went through many crises during his time in office]. The banned group of the Muslim...
10. Latest survey of the Brotherhood: Members demand training on weapons
Date of source: 14 Jun 2003 to 20 Jun 2003
By No Author Mentioned
[Editor: does this survey exist or is it a way to discredit the Brotherhood? Rose el-Youssef is known for its frequent Brotherhood bashing. If the information is correct, why did other media not report about this?] Subtitle: Thirty-eight percent of the Brotherhood in the eastern Cairo territory...
11. The Muslim Brotherhood refuses to admit that Al-Hodeibi contracted Alzheimer
Date of source: 16 Jun 2003
By ‘Abd al-Hafīz Sa‘d
The Muslim Brotherhood denied what Sout Al-Umma published about its General Guide contracting Alzheimer.
12. Interdiction case against the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood
Date of source: 16 Jun 2003
By Muḥammad al-Bāz
The author comments on the activities of Ma’amoun Al-Hodeibi the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood. He believes that the Brotherhood tries to give his ordinary life a holy dimension. The group does not even want to admit that he contracted Alzheimer.
13. A confrontation between Islam and secularism…Syrian PhD thesis distributes indulgences among Muslim intellectuals
Date of source: 17 Jun 2003
By Wasfi ‘Ashur Abu Zayd
Sub-title: Al-Qaradawi, Al-Bouty and Muhammad Emara are angels...Hassan Hanafy and Nasr Abu Zeid are devils, says researcher. On May 31, the department of Islamic philosophy in affiliation with the faculty of Dar Al-Ulum of Cairo University witnessed the examination of a PhD thesis titled "The...
14. First female Islamist nominated for Jordan parliament: niqab is not a duty and husband does not object
Date of source: 12 Jun 2003
By Fāris Shar‘ān
The article is an interview with Hayat Al-Masemi, the first Islamist activist to be nominated for the Jordanian parliament. She believes that women should participate in political and social life. She is of the opinion that the niqab is not a religious duty. Al-Masemi commented on the order of...
15. Alleged adherence to the Qur’an
Date of source: 14 Jun 2003 to 20 Jun 2003
By Muhammad Sa‘īd al-‘Ashmāwī (Dr.)
The author has started a series of articles on the differences between Sunnis and Shiites under a general title "Islam between Sunni and Shiite" on November 15 2002. In this article he gives a summary of his previous articles and will resume the series starting next week.
16. The absent role of the Azhar Committee for Inter-Religious Dialogue
Date of source: 17 Jun 2003
By No Author Mentioned
[Editor: The article reflects frustration about the behavior/statements of individual Christians but does not distinguish between those who genuinely advocate dialogue and understanding and those who speak in an offensive way about Islam. The article does also not distinguish between official...
17. Maxime Rodinson between Islam and the West. Interviews with Gerard D. Khoury
Date of source: 15 Jun 2003
By Hāshim Sālih
The article is an overview of the book "Maxime Rodinson. Entre Islam et Occident Entretiens avec Gerard D. Khoury." [Maxime Rodinson Between Islam and the West. Interviews with Gerard D. Khoury.] The overview concentrates on the questions that reflect the philosophy of Rodinson concerning the...
18. FBI officer fired for writing anti-Islam rhetoric on calendar
Date of source: 15 Jun 2003
By No Author Mentioned
A senior FBI official pledged to American Muslims to protect them from hate crimes. He emphasized that an FBI officer was dismissed because he wrote anti-Islam rhetoric on his office calendar. Tom Reynolds, head of the Civil Rights Department of the FBI, delivered a speech in a conference organized...
19. Report from US Department of Justice about Muslims in America obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat: Police search mosques and counted worshippers...The number of frozen bank accounts is about 600
Date of source: 15 Jun 2003
By Muhammad ‘Ali Salih
The US Department of Justice sent a report to Congress about detaining and deporting hundreds of Muslims since the terrorist attack on America nearly two years ago. Asharq Al-Awsat managed to get a copy of the sixty-page report which consists of answers to the questions of Representative James...
20. Niqab crisis in Florida
Date of source: 13 Jun 2003
By Munā al-Tahhāwī
The author comments on the issue of Sultana Freeman, an American woman who brought a lawsuit against the authorities of the state of Florida. The authorities refused to issue her a driving license that has a photo of her wearing the niqab [veil that covers hair and face]. She comments on the issue...
21. Head of Canadian Islamic Congress: correct the image of Islam by showing its civilized and enlightened teachings
Date of source: 13 Jun 2003
By No Author Mentioned
The article is an interview with Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Masri, the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress. He affirmed that despite the repercussions of September 11, Islam will have good future in Canada. He explained that Muslims should show the civilized and enlightened teachings of Islam to...
22. Time magazine discusses crisis of Christianity in Europe: Has God disappeared from peoples´ hearts?
Date of source: 16 Jun 2003
By Aḥmad Ghāzī
"Where are you, Lord" is a difficult question asked often by Westerners these days. The last half of the twentieth century was overloaded by complicated, contradictory and obscure ideas, currents and incidents that led to the rise of doubt and perplexity in the hearts of most people all over the...
24. Is the concept of “minorities” applicable on Copts?
Date of source: 11 Jun 2003
By Michael Mounir ( Māykil Munīr)
[The text below is a summary of a lengthy Arabic text Michael Meunier wrote to Father Marcos. Meunier introduced this text on the Copts Daily Digest of June 11 as "my response to those ignorant in Egypt who have no idea what the term means or whom it should apply to. I hope Fr. Marcos Aziz and his...
25. Different definitions of the concept of minority
Date of source: 18 Jun 2003
By Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Michael Meunier, chairman of the US Copts Association, wants to see Copts in Egypt described as a minority. Many Egyptian intellectuals give a different definition of this concept and reject this. There are many different definitions of the concept of ’minority.’ Many opponents to the word...
26. Bush´s plan to drive Muslims and Christians out of Israel
Date of source: 16 Jun 2003
By Samāh ‘Abd al-‘Ātī
[Editor: The current polarization could have consequences for Muslim and Christian Palestinians in Israel, making them emigrate whenever they see a chance but this is not the same as an organized plan. This is another example of conspiracy thinking. This does not mean certain developments do not...
27. A project to teach Russians “tolerance”…Fabricated tumult of “anti- Semitism”
Date of source: 15 Jun 2003
By Raed Gaber
Both holocaust subject and Jewish issues might become the main elements of teaching and education systems in Russia. Experts endeavor to established programs that aim to "raise" a new generation of specialists in these fields, benefiting from what is described as an "anti- Semitism" wave which...
28. Father Marcos Aziz Khalil attacks Protestant churches
Father Marcos Aziz Khalil of the Hanging Church began a series of articles in Al-Midan newspaper under the title "The Secrets Behind the Conflicts between Christian Denominations." He criticizes Protestant churches and warns members of the Orthodox Church against their teachings: "Do not follow...
37. The censored article of Dr. Zaghloul al-Najjar: Who benefits from attempts to change the truth?
Date of source: 23 Mar 2006
By Zaghlūl al-Najjār (Dr.)
Dr. al-Najjār says that al-Ahrām published a critique by Rev. Rif‘at Fikrī Sa‘īd on his article published in the same newspaper on February 20 [Editor: See AWR 2006, 9, arts. 28 and 29]. Dr. al-Najjār points out that he would like to make some remarks concerning Rev. Sa‘īd’s article."The reverend...
29. Father Marcos' polemic writing against Protestant Christians
Date of source: 14 Jun 2003
By Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Father Marcos’ articles obviously have been very polemic. His argument that he felt he needed to do this to protect the youth of the Orthodox Church from "the storms of heresies," does not hold. If that was genuinely his intention he should not have used al-Midan, a publication with a small...
30. Is that the Mulid of Al-Sayyed Al-Badawi or St. Dimyana?
Date of source: 14 Jun 2003 to 16 Jun 2003
By Mahmud al-Zalaqi
The author comments on the features of the mulid [pilgrimage festival] of St. Dimyana. He believes the mulid is a clear example of national unity. The ceremonial manifestations remind us of the mulids of El-Sayyid Al-Badawi and Ibrahim Al-Dusuqi [pious Muslim men]. There is food, drink, and sweets...
31. Whatsoever is not of faith is sin
Date of source: 15 Jun 2003
By Marqus ʿAzīz Khalīl (Father)
The author comments on the verse saying that whatsoever is not of faith is sin. He recounts many stories which show that one of the main Christian teachings is wise living.
6. Torture, detention, prisons and emergency [law]…hot issues follow the Council of Human Rights
Date of source: 21 Jun 2003
By Ḥanān Ḥajjāj
Subtitles: *Dr. Rifa’at Al-Saeed: The idea is to the credit of the National Party but they propose it as if it is a holy text. *Hafez Abu Seada: We fear that the council will be just a kind of decoration or a reaction to international criticism. The government brands the council [its draft law]...
7. A new Islamic denomination according to the American criteria
Date of source: 23 Jun 2003
By ‘Abd al-Hamid Bakri
[Editor: Uncritical or biased use of vague sources. It is not mentioned who those experts are. Bakri also makes generalizing statements on the US and does not distinguish between the act of individual Americans and organizations, including experts and lobbyists and the US government.] The author...
8. Taming preachers and punishing journalists
Date of source: 18 Jun 2003
By Nāhid al-Nabarāwī
[Editor: generalized statements. See comments in the text. The comment of Dr. Hassan Emad in the last paragraph is certainly correct.] The author approached many leading figures to comment on what she calls the American campaign against the Egyptian press and religious institutions. She reports...
9. Fatwas of declaring killing people lawful and destroying civilization
Date of source: 21 Jun 2003 to 27 Jun 2003
By Īqbāl al-Sibāʿī
Subtitles: * Sheikhs issue a fatwa authorizing the execution of person’s fourth offence of alcohol consumption, tax evasion and reneges on bank debts. * A fatwa aired by Egyptian TV permitting a son to kill his father if the latter renounces Islam. They did injustice to Islam when they accused it...
10. More than 700 extremist groups in the US: Christian extremists follow the example of Al-Takfir wa Al-Hegra [accusation of unbelief and emigration]
Date of source: 21 Jun 2003 to 27 Jun 2003
By ʿĀṭif Ḥilmī
[Editor: it has all appearance Helmy has been asked to do some mud-slinging against US Christians. The examples of Reagan and Koresh are not representative for right-wing Christians in the US. The term ’right-wing’ is a derogatory term that often serves to classify conservative Christians as...
36. ‘Afaq ‘Arabiya’ victim of factional struggles, personal interests
Date of source: 28 Mar 2006
By Munā ʿIzzat (Mona Ezzat)
For the third consecutive week, journalists of the daily Āfāq ‘Arabīya continued their sit-in after the failure of all negotiations to restart the paper, which has been suspended by its editor-in-chief for the first time in the history of journalism.The paper, which is published by al-Ahrār party...
11. Another branch of the enemies of civilization: Jewish extremists accuse Sharon of being lenient [with Palestinians]
Date of source: 21 Jun 2003 to 27 Jun 2003
By Islām Kamāl
Subtitles: *Fundamentalism dominates education syllabuses, and that is why they [Israelis] admire Goldstein, Amir, and Suskind. *Jewish extremist groups regard Bush the "head of the serpent and declare the war of fatwas of takfir [accusations of unbelief] on those who opposes them and seek peace [...
12. Unto us our true religion and unto you your violent religion
Date of source: 23 Jun 2003
By Ma’mūn Fandī
I do not think there is anything for which we can blame the West, particularly after our terrorism has begun to creep into our Holy of Holies in epithet of Mecca and after the Holy Qur’an has turned out to be a bomb [i.e. used to justify destruction]. I think that our relation with the destructive...
13. Al-Qa’ida network and crimes of terrorism…Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahri, a physician in the cave of terrorism
Date of source: 18 Jun 2003
By Īhāb Fatḥī
The authors give an overview of Al-Qa’ida network how it was established and grew. They also give a background of Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahri who is believed to be the mastermind of the network.
14. An Egyptian Christian member of the Qa´ida and the Pope refuses to intervene
Date of source: 22 Jun 2003
By ‘Abd al-Fattāh ‘Abd al-Mun‘im
[Editor: The only source used is mother. That makes it one-sided.] You will be mistaken if you thought that the US intelligence will treat him with justice even if he is Christian. As long as Arab blood flows in his veins he will be recognized by the US as a first class terrorist. The last victim...
15. The General guide of the Muslim Brotherhood: Save us from fabrications…I did not contract Alzheimer
Date of source: 19 Jun 2003
By Muhammad Tharwat
The article is an interview with the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood. He stressed that he does not have Alzheimer as some papers [Sout Al-Umma] reported. He discussed other issues related to the stand of the Brotherhood towards the dialogue between the Gama’a Al-Islamiya and the US the...

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