Date of source: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Islamic Jihād group announced their welcome to Christians. This announcement gave many people hope for the end of sectarian fanaticism.
However, Dr. Jihād 'Awdah said that the salafī movement did not acknowledge the 1919 Revolution because of the participation of Copts participated. In addition,...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2011
The article talks about the latest developments in Qena where salafists flamed fitnah in the governorate, then returned during the Friday prayers to cause it again.
Salafists had refused to stand for a minute of grief for the victims of the incident and Shaykh Qurshī Salāmah, potential amīr,...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2011
Usāmah Salāmah writes that the government is facing a critical challenge, either it will succeed in establishing a civil state or they will give up, and then we can call it the death of a civil state.
He believes that it is necessary to have a law that criminalizes all forms of discrimnation. Only...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Political liberal, leftist and Nasserist movements embarked on contacts for coordination in the upcoming parliamentary elections to confront the alliance of Islamist groups.
Date of source: Friday, April 22, 2011
Dozens of salafists distributed fliers in Qena protesting against the cabinet statement issued on April 20, 2011.
Date of source: Monday, April 25, 2011
In light of the recent incidents in Qena, Archbishop of Qena, Bishop Sharoubim assured that the church is not against or for appointing 'Imād Mikhael as governor of Qena.
Archpriest Bīshūy said that the church is not part of the crisis, but was thrusted into it. He noted that there is some...
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2011
The Ministry of Awqaf [Endowments] asked the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces [SCAF] and the Ministry of Interior Affairs to interfere in protecting al-Nūr Mosque in 'Abāsīyah.
The mosque was subject to attacks on April 22, 2011, by followers of a Salafī preacher in the Suez, Shaykh Hāfiz...
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2011
Field Marshal Husayn al-Tantāwī, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, sent a delegation to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral to greet Coptic Pope Shenouda III on the occasion of the Resurrection feast.
Tantāwī also sent a delegation to all Christian denominations.
Furthermore, in Abū Qurqās...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The article talks about the dispersion of extreme ideologies that call for Islamizing the society even by violence.
Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayīb, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, had announced that the absence of the balanced ideologies of the Azhar was the reason for that.
On the other hand, Minister of...
Date of source: Thursday, April 21, 2011
Shaykh Mahmūd 'Āmir, president of Ansār al-Sunnah al-Muhammadiyyah group in Beheira, announced his will to run for presidency.
He said that he will only run if no commander in the army ran for presidency.
'Āmir,who, according to the newspaper was close to the former regime, had issued a fatwá that...