Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
An official legal memo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Interior revealed that it is impossible to release Abud Al-Zomor, leader of the Egyptian Jihad group, and his nephew Tareq Al-Zomor, who have been jailed since 1982 in the case of Egyptian President Anwar Al-Sadat’s assassination.
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
This equality and tolerance shown by Islam is because Islam believes that all human beings are of one origin. Human rights in Islam are based on two points: equality, and the fact that human beings share one common origin. Everyone is equal before God; their good deeds make the difference. Many...
Date of source: Monday, April 12, 2004
Women preachers go onto the metro and say loud do’aa [prayers] and ask women on board to repeat after them. Now, the phenomenon has developed. Now women preachers are giving religious lessons in the metro. • See article 4: Renewal of religious discourse has not been successful for the last 1500...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
A participant in one of the seminars held in the Ibn Khaldoun Center under the title "Renewing the religious discourse." said that Islamic thought needed another Luther " like the prophet." A member of the Center declared that he refuses religiousness based on the sayings of Prophet Muhammad,...
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 2004
Sham en-Nesim is the day on which Copts go out to the gardens and eat their favorite food of eggs, onions and salted fish. They carry flowers in their hands. They believe until now that whoever sleeps past sunrise on that day will be lazy all year long. On Sham en-Nesim day, Egyptians usually...
Date of source: Saturday, April 24, 2004
Religious programs in which views make their questions on air are full of trivial questions. The audience of these programs shows unusual courage in revealing the most specific details of their personal life.
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 2004
The Muslim Brotherhood’s unchanging principle is their dream of reaching power. History confirms that the group has never stood a change of achieving this idea. The leaders of the group have always in their statements flirted with world powers, which were represented by the British occupation...
Date of source: Monday, May 3, 2004
The Muslim Brotherhood is restricting the activities of many of its best young members. A decision was issued to expel Mokhtar Nuh and freeze the membership of Sayyed Abdel Sattar Fatah, the assistant secretary-general of the Syndicate of Scientists. It is not a coincidence these people belong to a...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
Some leftist members of the Tagammu Party attacked the attitudes of Dr. Rifa’at Al-Sa’id, the new chairman of the party for giving priority to his attacks on the Muslim Brotherhood, as a banned political group, at the time he ignores important Arab issues. Dr. Rifa’at Al-Sa’id stressed that these...
Date of source: Monday, May 10, 2004
The phenomenon of the new preachers who were imposed on us as muftis is worthy of thorough examination. We need to know where those preachers received their training and how many accredited books each of them has authored? We need to know whether a preacher is able to give fatwas. Everybody has the...