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Date of source: 2 Jul 2003
Rose Al-Youssef reported in its issue of June 21-27, 2003 about "Jewish extremists accuse Sharon of being lenient" [AWR, week 25, art. 11]. The article states "Israeli rabbis issued a fatwa that brands Sharon an unbeliever in order to pave the way for his assassination if he crosses the line." The...
Date of source: 26 Jun 2003
The article is the sixth in a series in which the author comments on the beliefs of Protestant Churches. It is the second part of his presentation of the story of Martin Luther. [The quality of the article is 7, as the author continues using offensive language in presenting the story of Martin...
Date of source: 26 Jun 2003
Pope Shenouda III received a notification from the World Council of Churches to the effect that the council modified its membership conditions. This is to prevent extremist Christian denominations from entering the council. Some extremist denominations, such as the Mormons, Seventh Day Adventist...
Date of source: 26 Mar 2006
The article reports on contacts between Māhir Khilla, a Copt who ran in the latest parliamentary elections [Reviewer: Khilla ran in the elections in Alexandria as a candidate of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), but he was forced to withdraw from the parliamentary race following the...
Date of source: 28 Mar 2006
Bishop Seraphim, William Henry Hugo Newman Norton (born 27.2.48), headed the Orthodox Church of Great Britain and was responsible for uniting his church with the Coptic Orthodox Church in 1977 after 128 years of independent existence. His church is now a diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate...
Date of source: 5 Jul 2003
[Editor: We have not found any evidence of people believing today in Sebastian or Sebastianism putting an end of Islam. Both Sebastian and the movement or belief following his death appear to be anti-Muslim but does it still exist today as the author claims? If it exists it is certainly small and...
Date of source: 3 Jul 2003
[Editor: the US as a state did not wage a media campaign. Sure American media had great sympathy for Ibrahim. The number of 12,000 articles seems to be highly exaggerated.]
The article comments on the interference of the US in Egyptian domestic affairs, such as, in the case of Saad Eddin Ibrahim,...
Date of source: 5 Jul 2003 to 11 Jul 2003
The article is an overview of a book by Dr. Rifa’at Al-Sa’id titled “Islamists…what have they done to Islam and to us?” Al-Sa’id comments on the ideologies of Usama Bin Laden Ayman Al-Zawhari and the Taliban. He gives definitions of: terrorism assassination Shari’a fiqh fundamentalism and Islamism...
Date of source: 6 Jul 2003
Subtitle: Mahmoud Shu’ayeb reveals the support of some the Jihad members of peace initiative.
A leading figure in the Egyptian Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya revealed that the group is on the point of releasing a Shari’a-based research in which it will declare its view about the insistence of some [Muslim]...
Date of source: 6 Jul 2003
The Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Ma’amoun Al-Hodeibi emphasized that Jihad with money and souls is a duty for Muslims in order to regain and free the Arab land and taking revenge for the violation of the Arab honor.
In his message to Brotherhood members, Al-Hodeibi warned against...
Date of source: 4 Jul 2003
Subtitles:
*The Supreme Guide of the Brotherhood: Naming my deputy has nothing to do with democracy.
*Palestinian officials know their interests best and martyrdom operations are subject to political suitability.
*Jihad requires an organized entity under the supervision of the government.
*...
Date of source: 6 Jul 2003
Subtitles:
*The weak points and mistakes of the Brotherhood turned into incurable psychological diseases.
*He [Dr. Essam Al-Erian] introduced himself as a former representative of the group refusing to mention his current position in the group...He began by stressing that he respects and...
Date of source: 6 Jul 2003
[Editor: This article contradicts the following article.]
To my surprise, one of my co-workers told me that my name was mentioned in an article published in Sawt Al-Umma dated June 16 under the title "The Turkey group lies and we answer it with documents...The Brotherhood refuses to admit that Al-...
Date of source: 6 Jul 2003
[Editor: This article contradicts the preceding article.]
Dr. Magdy Al-Barbary has the right to deny his relation with the Muslim Brotherhood especially as we do not have a listing of the group’s members. But he does not have the right to accuse us of forging a medical report in order to prove that...
Date of source: 7 Jul 2003
Some Islamic movements carry the slogan of "establishing an Islamic state." The Islamic political discourse has been occupied with discussing the importance of such slogan and the possibility of its application. However, the author believes that there are some important questions to be asked in...
Date of source: 7 Jul 2003
The author comments on an article by Ayda Al-Gohari titled "The phenomenon of Amr Khalid…the preacher of "rich people" who look for a meaning [in life]" He believes that the analysis of Ayda is dominated by a secular, Marxist point of view - which led her to concentrate on the effect of the...
Date of source: 3 Jul 2003
Sheikh Abdel-Magid Al- Zindani, the chairman of consultative [Shura] Council of the Yemeni Islah [Reform] Party and the president of the Islamic Research University, calls for creating a new marriage bond called "Zawaj [marriage] friend" instead of the Western system "girl friend," which allows...
Date of source: 7 Jul 2003
The article is a comment on the fatwa of Yemeni Sheikh Al-Zindani who suggested a new marriage system called "marriage friend" instead of the boy/girl friend system in the West. The fatwa was issued to help Muslim youth in the West to commit to the Islamic principles.
The author believes that the...
Date of source: 7 Jul 2003
Coptic members of the Wafd Party are dissatisfied at the fact that Sayed Al-Badawi, a Muslim member, was appointed as a general secretary of the party succeeding Christian member Saad Fakhry Abdel-Nour who passed away.
Christian member Emanuel Ishaq Girgis, deputy of the president of the party in...
Date of source: 3 Jul 2003
The article refutes the claims of Ahmed Abdel-Mo’ti Hegazi who says that the Muslim Arabs were invaders and colonizers when they entered Egypt. They wanted to send the extracted Egyptian fortune to Baghdad and Damascus. The entire integral report will be published next week.
Date of source: 8 Jul 2003
The article is an overview of a book by Coptic researcher Hani Labib titled "The Crisis of Religion Protection…Religion and State in Egypt." The author comments on the Coptic issue in the modern age. He begins with a general introduction on the concepts of church and state since the beginning of...
Date of source: 6 Jul 2003
[Editor: the tone of the article is emotional and angry for often repeated claims he strongly believes are wrong]
The author comments on three articles by Magdi Khalil, published in Watani newspaper under the title "A returnee from Cairo." [See AWR, week 24 (2003), edition June 12, 2003 - June 18,...
Date of source: 6 Jul 2003
The Jewish Anti- Defamation League (set up by Bnai Brith), an American-Zionist organization, launched an attack against the "Reading for all" project sponsored by Susan Mubarak, Egypt’s first lady. Three books about Palestine were published as part of the project last year. The league considers the...
24. Dr. Fayed Ashour continues disclosing Jewish claims…Solomon´s temple does not exist in Jerusalem
Date of source: 5 Jul 2003
[Editor: The author claims no remains of the temple of Solomon have been found in the area of the al-Haram el-Qudsi el-Sherif, the area known as temple mountain or the area where the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque are located. He does not claim, as the title suggests, that there has been no...
Date of source: 7 Jul 2003
The author comments on the issue of female genital mutilation, arguing that it has nothing to do with religion. He also explains its scientific and psychological aspects, showing that it does not fulfill its claimed objective, which is keeping the chastity of girls through cutting the organ that...
Date of source: 4 Jul 2003
On the night of July 24, 1954, while Egypt was celebrating the second anniversary of the July Revolution, 33 Coptic men under 25, led by a 21 year old lawyer, broke into the Papal Palace at Klot Bey St. and ousted the Coptic pope, Anba Yousab. In an 11-minute operation they threatened to kill him...
Date of source: 3 Jul 2003
The author continues his series about Protestant churches [See AWR, Week 24, art. 28, Week 25, art.28; Week 26, art.39]. He starts the story of John Calvin after finishing that of Martin Luther. At the end of his article, in which he concentrates only on the mistakes and the weak points of Calvin...
Date of source: 5 Jul 2003
The article gives a brief idea about the religious social and spiritual role of the monastery of Saint Catherines.
Date of source: 8 Jul 2003
The author reports that the health of Pope Shenouda does not seem to be good as he looked tired during his weekly meeting in the St. Mark Cathedral.
Date of source: 14 Jul 2003
[Editor: The comparison between Guantanamo Bay and Auschwitz goes too far. Auschwitz was an extermination camp, set up to physically destroy the people arriving there. That is not Guantanamo. But it is certainly the author’s right to criticize the way for the American treatment of prisoners.] We...
Date of source: 13 Jul 2003
Since the first century of its history, Islam has had extremist groups. These groups were parallel with the moderate mainstream that is non-violent and non-extremist, broad-minded and does not see itself as possessing the only truth [regarding Islam].
Since A.D. 660, the middle of the first Hegri...
Date of source: 15 Jul 2003
Subtitle: The initiative to stop violence forms the ideological bases of Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya’s approach in dealing with the State and the society.
Karam Zohdy, the leader of Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya in Egypt emphasized that the initiative to stop violence, declared by the group in 1997 turned to...
Date of source: 14 Jul 2003
Subtitle: The extremism of militant groups broke on the rock of the events of September 11.
Abdel Raziq Al-Maqri represents the [Algerian] radical opposition movement, which believes in the necessity of accepting others. He adheres to his right to express his opinion and respect the decision of the...
Date of source: 12 Jul 2003 to 18 Jul 2003
The terrorist suspect, Muhammad Mukhlis or El Said Muhammad Mukhlis, was trained by Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan to execute terrorist operations in Egypt. The Egyptian authorities received him from Argentina after issuing a warrant proving that he is charged, with another suspect who is called...
Date of source: 11 Jul 2003
he opinions and writings of many Western politicians attack Islam and they all emphasize that all international civilizations will melt in the vessel of the values of capitalist Western and that the fall of communism foreshadows the end of Islam. These allegations are the result of the emergence of...
Date of source: 13 Jul 2003
The article presents an interview with his Eminence Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Guzu, mufti of Mount Lebanon. The conversation discusses the relation between Islamic civilization and other civilizations, and how to form a new future for the Islamic nation?
In response to the allegations claimed by the...
Date of source: 11 Jul 2003
Subtitle:
The Islamic thinker: the spirit of compulsion produced violence and created violent groups, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein in Islamic societies.
The Islamic thinker Gawdat Sa’id emphasized that the repeated defeats Muslims went through are due to lack of attention to the study of...
Date of source: 11 Jul 2003
The author comments on an article published in Al-Hayat of June 26, 2003 under the title "A veil for the head or the mind?" by Adonees [who is originally a poet]. [See AWR, week 26, art. 20].
She cites Qur’anic verses to refute the opinion of Adonees that the veil [hijab] is not an obligation....
Date of source: 11 Jul 2003
Abdel-Rahman Bin Lotfi comments on an article by Dr. Muhammad Ahmed Al-Maseer published in Al-Liwa Al-Islami [the article is titled: heresies in marriage… women clothes June 26 2003]. Al-Maseer wrote that the niqab [head scarf covering the face with the exception of the eyes] is not a religious...
Date of source: 12 Jul 2003
After many kinds of secret marriage, those who pretend modernization in Islam came with a new kind of marriage that they thought would solve the question of spinsterhood in Islamic society.
This kind of marriage, which the Yemeni Sheikh Abdel Megied El Zanadani suggested, would be declared with...
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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.