Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2002
Osama Salama´s words are sharp, full of anger about Coptic emigrants. People in Egypt, other Arab countries, Europe, the US and Israel itself protest against the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians. But where are the voices of the emigrant Copts and Arab Christians? We checked the Copts...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Khalid Dowran is a Muslim Arab living in America. He wrote a book titled “The Seed of Abraham…Towards an Understanding of Islam.” The book caused a wide controversy to the extent that the leader of one of the Islamic groups in Jordan issued a fatwa that charges Dowran of kufr [unbelief]. In the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2002
Renouncing terrorism does not need books to be compiled, as the leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya have done recently. It needs a true repentance and a confession of being guilty because of the many crimes committed. Some of the Brotherhood leaders said that such renouncement of violence could...
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2002
Montasser Al-Zayyat stresses that he is the lawyer of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya and that he has no organizational relationship with them because he does not want to subject himself to punishment by law. Many of his statements on the activities of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya show that he is not...
Date of source: Monday, November 14, 2005
The Copts in Egypt are used by the authorities as a scapegoat to keep the government in office.
Date of source: Sunday, September 25, 2005
Radical Islamists have not only settled for censorship in their fight against intellectuals, but have issued fatwas, sentencing to death thinkers with whom they disagree. Intellectuals across the Muslim world have been attacked or assassinated in accordance with these fatwas.
Date of source: Saturday, November 13, 2004
In previous issues I have focused on the “must-know religious information” and the consequent do’s and don’ts which if violated would, according to jurisprudential conditions, lead to apostasy, punishable by death if attempts to secure repentance ended up in failure.
We have learnt that this rule...
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Arab Christians are trapped between the hammer of terrorists groups and extremists, and the anvil of fanatic governments that skillfully manipulate the issue of religious radicalism for their own benefit [Editor: what governments does Magdi Khalil refer to?], while reinforcing religious, ethnic and...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
No one can deny that national unity and religious brotherhood have been and will remain part and parcel of Egypt’s national textile, a fact that is established and acknowledged inside and outside Egypt. Religious groups that penetrated the Egyptian society and spread their ideologies threaten Egypt...
Date of source: Saturday, June 4, 2005
Sayyid al-Qimnī writes about the way Arabs and Muslims deal with the issue of accepting the “Other” saying that we worry about our mental health and religion from the "other,” the unbeliever, but we are captives to backwardness and darkness and imagine unreal dangers that would harm us if we faced...