Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2012
After al-Misrīyn newspaper published its appeal to the authorities to permit the return to Egypt of the family of Rāfi' Mustafá Sayīd, known as Abū al-Miqdād and a leader of al-Qā'idah, the family arrived in Cairo yesterday. Al-Mikdad was killed in an American air raid in Afghanistan last year.
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Bishop Bula of Tantā and Chairman of the Clerical Council, said the Orthodox Church and General Bishop David of the United States are working out arrangements for an expected visit by President Mursī to New York on Wednesday (September 26).
Date of source: Sunday, May 18, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Mukhtār, Minister of Endowments, has stated that a call to promote jihād in Egypt by Dr. ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Birr, a prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, was a breach of faith that merited legal action.
Date of source: Friday, May 16, 2014
Dār al- Iftā’ believes that the call of the member of the guidance bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood Abd al- Rahmān al- Bir to his group “to carry out jihad against those who attack you” is a direct incitement for killing and corruption of the land and spreading fitnah (strife).
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Ghuzlān, the spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood Group and member of the Constituent Assembly, said that fears of religious state are groundless. The constitution will represent all segments of the society and will coordinate the three branches [legislative, executive and judiciary] ...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
On the other hand, Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, a founder of the Salafī Call, the parent organization of al-Nūr (Light) Party, said his movement will call on the people to reject the constitution if the constituent assembly refrained from interpreting the phrase the “principles of the sharī’ah” in Article II...
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Dr. Ahmad Karīmah, professor of sharī’ah at the Azhar stated in response to al- Qaradawi’s fatwa, calling the participation in the presidential elections harām, that religion has nothing to do with elections and that no person or institution can claim that such a vote or referendum is halāl (...
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
The shūrá council of the International Muslim Brotherhood Organization has held a meeting in Amman, Jordan in order to examine the changes in the organization’s leadership and revise its regulations list as well as discuss the crisis with the British government.
Date of source: Monday, September 30, 2013
The North Giza prosecution has ordered the detention of 15 defendants for 15 days pending investigations accusations of their involvement in the Kirdāsah police station massacre. Nasrī al-Zaynī, a member of the Salafī Jihadists, stated that he attacked a church as a form of “Jihad for God”. “This...
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2012
Writing in the al-Hurīyah wal-‘Adālah (Freedom and Justice) newspaper within the context of the ongoing feud between journalists and the Muslim Brotherhood over alleged efforts by the Brotherhood to control the media, Brotherhood member Dr. 'Abd a-Rahmān al-Bir says: “a journalist is the possessor...