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Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Dr. Wahīd ‘Abd al-Majīd, the official spokesman for the constituent assembly, said Article II has not been officially discussed inside the relevant committee on mainstays of the society or the general sessions in the assembly. [Ahmad Fathī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, July 8, p. 5] Read original text in...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Some are depicting the sharī’ah as if it is sheer penal code but it eventually acts like a security fence protecting the society, the people and the nation in accordance with controls not like any other controls included in any given man-made laws. [Yusrī Hammād, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 8, p. 17] ...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Scholars from the Azhar attacked demands by al-Nūr to add the phrase “the four Islamic doctrines” to Article II, noting the people asking for this addition “have flawed understanding of the Islamic sharī’ah”.
Former Muftī of the Republic Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, a representative of the Azhar on the...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The court will also consider another challenge requesting the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood group, halting all its activities and closing down all its headquarters and property for its failure to obtain a license from the ministry of social solidarity to practice its activities in violation of...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
In northern Nigeria, attacks on three churches and following retaliatory acts left 45 people killed, prompting an Italian minister on Monday (June 18) to condemn the Islamist group Boko Haram and accusing it of “having started a campaign of genocide targeting Christian minority”. [Author Not...
19. Archpriest Angelus: The Church does not fear the victory of Mursī and respect the will of voters
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Meanwhile, Archpriest Angelus, the secretary of acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius, said that the church is not afraid about the victory of Muhammad Mursī, the leader of the Brotherhood’s FJP, in the presidential runoff round, adding the church respects the will of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
In its first meeting at the Shūrá Council, the upper house of the two-chamber parliament, the constitution-drafting panel elected unopposed on Monday (June 18) evening Counselor Husām al-Ghiryānī, the sole candidate for the post, as chairman of the constituent assembly.
Ghiryānī criticized the...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The court will also consider another challenge requesting the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood group, halting all its activities and closing down all its headquarters and property for its failure to obtain a license from the ministry of social solidarity to practice its activities in violation of...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2012
For his part, Bishop Pachomius, acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, visited Mursī to congratulate him for his presidential election victory. Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Holy Synod, Bishop Mūsá of Youth, Bishop Armīyā, General Bishop, Bishop Hīdrā of Aswan, Counselor Edward Ghālib,...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2012
On the other hand, ‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, in an opinion piece in al-Wafd, wrote that Copts do not care about the continuous hints of appointing a Coptic Vice-president due to the acts of violence that occurred in the early 'nineties.
There are concerns about the migration of Copts after Mursī was...
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