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Date of source: 23 Mar 2006
Brotherhood members decided to raise the tone of their attack on President Mubarak following the closure of the newspaper Āfāq Arabīya, the Brotherhood’s mouthpiece and the arrest of more than 30 Brotherhood leading figures. “Mubarak is against the independence of judiciary … fire is under ashes…we...
Date of source: 23 Mar 2006
The author of the article offers the views of former Minister of Interior al-Nabawī Ismā‘īl, a number of former leading figures of the Brotherhood and others, regarding the recent attacks launched by the Muslim Brotherhood against President Husnī Mubārak.Ismā‘īl said to al-Maydān that the...
Date of source: 11 Aug 2003
During the coming weeks, the US Senate is due to discuss an official note submitted to its Committee of Governmental Affairs on the alleged role of Egypt and Saudi Arabia in supporting terrorism.
Three Jewish senators prepared the note: Arlen Specter, Charles Schumer and Carl Levin. The three...
Date of source: 6 Aug 2003
Every historian agrees that the Muslim Brotherhood is the group that started terrorism. Its members admit it and sometimes they are proud of it. They wrote many books about terrorism from which is obvious. We will examine one of them. It is "The Reality of The Special Organization and Its Role in...
Date of source: 11 Aug 2003
The elections of the Journalists Syndicate revealed that the Muslim Brotherhood managed to impose their authority after 70 years of public and secret work. Both the government and the opposition have nothing left except asking for the blessing of the supreme guide of the Brotherhood who became the...
Date of source: 11 Aug 2003
The stance of the Brotherhood towards rulers is characterized by servile flattery and flexibility.
"The Muslim Brotherhood wishes from the bottom of their hearts that [government] officials would trust them and help them to perform their mission of religious awareness so that the Islamic expansion...
Date of source: 11 Aug 2003
The article tells about the incidents that led to the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1948 and the assassination of its founder Hassan Al-Banna in 1949.
When a wave of violence flared up in Egypt, all suspicions were directed to the Muslim Brotherhood. On December 8, 1948, the Egyptian...
Date of source: 12 Aug 2003
The Qa’ida accepted responsibility for the suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta last week. It stipulated many conditions for stopping its operations. Three of which are that the US must stop its war against terrorism release the detainees in the Guantanamo base and withdraw its military...
Date of source: 7 Aug 2003
The third and last uncertainty related to the law of God is that Islamic governments have practically never been a success in the late 20th century.
The examples of the Taliban in Afghanistan and previously the governments of Iran, Pakistan and Sudan are offering outspoken evidence, which proves...
Date of source: 11 Aug 2003
The Qur’an is the book Allah sent down to His prophet Muhammad in Arabic. Last week, there were concerns over this issue in the Islamic Research Institute when the British Islamic Institute asked the Azhar for permission to translate nine chapters from the Qur’an. Some of the institute members...
Date of source: 7 Aug 2003
In an interview with one of the anti-Islam papers, philosophy professor Dr. Fou’ad Zakariya spoke of secularism as a substitute for Islam. He stressed that it would free Muslims from the intellectual dogmatism they suffer from. He even described it as a life buoy, as it means basing judgment on...
Date of source: 7 Aug 2003
The article is an interview with the Sheikh of the Azhar. He comments on the future of the Islamic nation [umma], renewing religious discourse and the Arab Culture Conference, which is said to have called for anti-Islamic ideas.
He said that the only way out for the Islamic umma is the application...
Date of source: 12 Aug 2003
The weekly Al-Liwa al-Islami takes the Qur’anic verse "Call unto the way of thy Lord with wisdom and fair exhortation" [Sura 16 :125] as a motto. Nevertheless, most what it publishes has nothing to do with wisdom and fair exhortation. It even aims at incitement and is full of accusations of kufr [...
Date of source: 10 Aug 2003
Were it not for the previous five articles, I would not have been able to write about the expected Jewish Mahdi, because the bits of information available were about the Fatimid one [Mahdi means the ’divinely guided one’, and refers to the descendant of the prophet who will return to earth at the...
Date of source: 7 Aug 2003
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, the Pope of Alexandria and the See of Saint Mark, is both a prominent Coptic religious personality and an attractive public personality who wins the love of Muslims before Christians.
That is why we dictated seven articles for Pope Shenouda on the occasion of his...
Date of source: 12 Aug 2003
A new movie by Mel Gibson about the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus Christ, titled "Passion," caused a controversy among Catholic clergymen and Jewish rabbis despite the fact that it has not yet been released. They believe that the movie will promote the belief of the traditional Catholic Church...
Date of source: 11 Aug 2003
Nabil Omar criticizes the current conditions of Muslims in light of a report titled "Views of a Changing World" issued by the "Pew Global Attitudes Project," an organization under the chairmanship of Madeleine Albright. This report was conducted in 49 countries and the Palestinian occupied...
Date of source: 6 Aug 2003
The article is an interview with Sheikh Tag Eddin Al-Helali, the Mufti of Australia, who is known for his moderation. The Australian Herald described him as the voice of reason in apposition to the fundamentalist tendency [among Muslims] in Australia. He comments on the conditions of the Muslim...
Date of source: 9 Aug 2003 to 15 Aug 2003
The archbishop of Canterbury, who is considered the spiritual father of Anglican Christians in the world, warned against hard times for the church because of electing Jane Robinson, a homosexual, as a bishop for the American state of New Hampshire. Religious leaders of the Anglican Church outside...
Date of source: 8 Aug 2003
Questions arise from time to time concerning the capital of Ramsis II; where is it? Who built it? Questions spring up by Israeli archaeologists or scholars from other nationalities believed to be Jewish scholars! The two questions at hand do not focus on the pharaoh’s capital, as they claim but on...
Date of source: 8 Aug 2003
Ha’aretz newspaper [Israel] reported that a new group of Zionists in France joined a Jewish extremist group via the Internet so as to send messages and data that instigate hatred for Arabs and Muslims. Mouloud Aounit Secretary General of an anti-racist organization published a report of 170 pages...
Date of source: 11 Aug 2003
The author likens the media to a three-ring circus where attention is given to professional players. Those players occupy the middle ring, which is in the spotlight, as all games that show skill and mastery take place in it.
He believes that Arab satellite channels, dailies and weeklies all perform...
Date of source: 10 Aug 2003
The writer congratulates Pope Shenouda III on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He writes that the spiritual elevation of the pope gives him more strength in his 80th year. He described him as a representative of national unity and praised his nationalistic stands.
Date of source: 12 Aug 2003
In the American state of Maryland, some 12 people have cross burnings. Police investigations showed that these 12 belong to an extremist religious group founded by a Negro [the Arabic word used is ’zingi,’ having a similar denigatory meaning as the word ’negro’] called Yodin in 1998. He calls for a...
Date of source: 22 Mar 2006
The author tackles the current problems facing the Muslim Brotherhood, slamming what the supreme guide of the group Mahdī cĀkif had said about the unprecedented achievements made during his leadership.The author, who was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, believes that the group needs wide-scale...
Date of source: 16 Aug 2003
The article is an overview of a new book by the Gama’a Al-Islamiya about the wrong ideologies of the Qa’ida. [See AWR, week 32, art. 11]
[A summary of the book is also provided by Al-Qahera, August 19, 2003 (p.10) under the
Date of source: 19 Aug 2003
The Egyptian prosecution extended the prison sentence of 19 Brotherhood members and examined the status of another six members. They are all accused of membership in a group that has been established in violation with the law possessing printed materials that promote the ideas of the group...
Date of source: 20 Aug 2003
[See AWR, week 32, art.7]
Before we begin with terrorism promoters, the Islamized Brotherhood, we would like to mention that they disclaimed terrorism before. But when events proved that this was not true, they came to claim that they are no longer terrorists.
However, they applaud the Sadat...
Date of source: 15 Aug 2003
The author believes that there is no contradiction between renewing religious discourse and applying the Shari’a. He concurs that God protects religion: “Lo! We even We reveal the Reminder and Lo! We verily are its Guardian” [Sura 9:15]. Thus religious scholars should distinguish between the...
Date of source: 18 Aug 2003
[The word raushana is explained in the article]
The issue of the ability of Islam to renew and develop itself is open to many perspectives. Some people believe that Islam has solutions for all problems and addresses all issues. Adopters of the scientific interpretation of the Qur’an are an example...
Date of source: 19 Aug 2003
During the last few years, it has been a phenomenon in Egypt to find girls wearing Western clothes that are short and form-fitting and yet cover their head with the hijab, which is supposedly an Islamic obligation. When you ask one of these girls the reason for covering her head while uncovering...
Date of source: 19 Aug 2003
The author criticizes some of the Arab satellite channels. He gives examples of mistakes made by both the hosts and guests of programs who violate the grammar of the Arabic language. He also criticizes channels that present fatwa programs on air. He explains that some fatwas need time deep thinking...
Date of source: 19 Aug 2003
Muhammad Shibl comments on a situation he faced after writing an article on the position of the hijab among religious issues. While the writer was at one of the organizations and mentioned his name, a man with a white long beard told him: "I hate you for the love of God because of your article...
Date of source: 19 Aug 2003
Subtitles:
*The administrator of the websites of the Azhar and the Ministry of Endowments: Enormous efforts and more cooperation are required from various Islamic websites.
*Dr. Mohammed Abu Lela: Expansion and development of these sites’ language, style and approach became a must.
*The editor-in...
Date of source: 22 Aug 2003
Dr. Ahmed Omer Hashem, head of the Azhar University, stated that a committee comprising of senior scholars of the Azhar University was formed with the aim of identifying suspicions raised against Islam on the Internet, newspapers and magazines in order to refute and answer them.
Hashim clarified...
Date of source: 19 Aug 2003
The author criticized the Arab Culture Conference for the fact that it discussed the issue of renewing religious discourse without inviting men of religion who are the ones supposed to discuss such issues. He also criticized the call of the conference to secularism. [See AWR week 32 art.15]
Date of source: 14 Aug 2003
[See AWR, week 32, art.16]
Subtitles:
*The person who blows himself up in the midst of soldiers who are agressors in a settlement in occupied territories is a martyr.
*Conformity with the law of God determines our attitudes towards the government.
*The call for becoming free of the value of halal...
Date of source: 20 Aug 2003
Eyewitnesses said that severe disputes took place between the Egyptian police and Christians in the neighborhood of Ra’s Ghareb in the Red Sea governorate. The police was implementing an administrative decision to remove haphazardly build buildings [without organization, permit] in a poor state...
Date of source: 17 Aug 2003
The writer presents an overview of two books: First, "The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror" by Bernard Lewis. Second, "Al Qa’ida And What It Means To Be Modern" by John Gray.
The writer believes that this book by Lewis and previous books show that he falls into what can be categorized as...
Date of source: 13 Aug 2003
The writer presents the issue of religious intolerance in light of a French book titled “L’intolerance.” The book provides the views of 50 intellectuals concerning the reasons behind religious intolerance in the Islamic world.
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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.