Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

Khalīl presents a history of the advice and guidance sessions held with Copts who want to convert to Islam.

The article examines the human rights course at Alexandria University which teaches students that Bahā’ī marriage is not legally valid and that Egyptian Christians are second class citizens.

Rose al-Yūsuf has exclusively obtained the document of ’Tarshīd al-‘Amal al-Jihādī’ which Sayyid Imām, founder of al-Jihād group, has written to indicate the Jihād’s new ideology.

The fate of the jurisprudential reviews of the Jihād organization has raised many questions and doubts. The reviews which did not come to light until now prompted some to believe they were just a scoop or a tactic by the group.

The author discusses Bishop Paphnotius’ ideas because of their importance in clarifying the real crisis that led to the emergence of the laymen’s group.

The author comments on political Islam, and the people that have fought to combat this image

of Islam. She further comments on controversial Fatwás, as well as Muslim-Christian relations.

This article presents an overview of an article originally published in Nederlands Dagblad. It focuses on the distorted perception of Muslim-Christian relations often presented in Western media outlets, and provides Drs. Cornelis Hulsman’s responses to many of these claims.

Critique on Jewish scholar Dr. Bat Ye’or’s article about Jihad.

For the third week, Pope Benedict’s controversial remarks on Islam and

the Prophet

Muhammad have made headlines in Egyptian national and independent newspapers. A number of Muslim

intellectuals devoted their columns to refute claims about the spread of Islam by the sword. Some Muslim

scholars

called for a clear and official apology from the pope, while others demanded that the pope give

another lecture to

explain the true nature of Islam.

Subtitles:

- Alazm: Islam has killed a

lot of people on the

pretext of dividing them into Muslims and Zimmi.

- Dr. Qawadri: "We do not have in

Islam the word

Zemmi. They are equal citizens, you should not use the word zemmi or Jizia if you do not like

them.

-

Dr. Alazm: Islam is an obstacle in the way of the progress of Islamic societies. It is not an

international

religion.

- Islam is not to be imposed on people by force, its renaissance is undeniable and

you do

not know the meaning of an international religion.

- Dr. Alazm: "I must admit that I found Dr.,

Qaradawi more enlightened than others."

- I have discussed this before with many symbols of

secularism, yet

every one of us sticks to his opinion

A transcript of a television program, presented

by Dr. Faissl Al-

Kassem on the topic of Islam and secularism. The two guests on his program were Dr.

Yousseff Al-Qaradawi, the

writer of the famous book ‘Islam and Secularism: face to face’, and Dr. Sadek

Galal Al- Azm the writer of the

famous books "Criticism of religious language", "The ideology of forbidding

"and "After the ideology of

forbidding".