Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

Jamāl al-Bannā, Islamic thinker, said that the Islam spreading now is salafī and rogue, represented in the religious institution, Muslim Brotherhood (MB), and new preachers.

He added, that a religious state is a corrupted power and the constitution needs to be canceled. Al-Bannā believes that the church and the Azhar are two faces of the same coin.

"I support Muhammad al-Barād'ī to run for presidency because he lived 20 years outside Egypt and was saturated with the freedom climate, he will change the violations done by the previous government,"  al-Bannā said.

Headline: Jum‘ah: We Did not Issue a Fatwá that Egyptian Divorce Is Invalid Because of Different Pronounciations
Source: Rose al-Yūsuf
Pages: 3
Author: Subhī Mujāhid
Keywords: Fatwá, divorce

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Headline: The Assassination of al-Barād‘ī
Source: Al-Yawm al-Sābi‘
Pages: 4
Author: Muhammad al-Dusūqī Rushdī
Keywords: Fatwá, Muhammad al-Barād‘ī

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Headline: Muftī: Islamic Media the Line of Defense for the Religious Establishment
Source: ‘Aqīdatī
Pages: 1
Author: Fathī al-Duwaydī
Keywords: Fatwá

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Headline: Can Religious Tension between People be Cured?
Source: Al-Qāhirah
Pages: 21
Author: Tal‘at Radwān
Keywords: None

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Headline: Dr. Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī : I Support Dr. al-Tayyib in Reforming and Renewing the Azhar; I Reject the Randomness of Satellite TV and Sectarian Extremism
Source: ‘Aqīdatī
Pages: 1
Author: Not Mentioned
Keywords: Sunnī, Shī‘ah

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Headline: Hollands Minarets Irritate Extremists’ Parties
Source: Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd
Pages: 16
Author: AFP
Keywords: Mosques, minarets

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Headline: Islamic Discourse and the Holy Books of non-Muslims
Source: Al-Qāhirah
Pages: 21
Author: Ashraf al-Bulākī
Keywords: non-Muslims

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Headline: Did the Azhar Shaykh Refuse to Meet a Shī‘ah Delegation on Ashurah Anniversary?
Source: Al-Yawm al-Sābi‘
Pages: 4
Author: Sara ‘Allām , Lu’ai ‘Alī
Keywords: Azhar, ‘Ashūrā’

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Headline: Jamāl al-Bannā: Any Attempt to Establish an Islamic State in the Modern Era Is Doomed to Failure
Source: Al-Misrī al-Yawm
Pages: 12
Author: Not Mentioned
Keywords: Islamic State

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Headline: Fatwá on Killing al-Barād‘ī is Terrorism that Transforms Political Action into a Bloodbath
Source: Al-Yawm al-Sābi‘
Pages: 9
Author: Lu’ai ‘Alī, Rami Nawwār
Keywords: Fatwá

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Headline: Saudi Muftī Calls for Dialogue with Adherents of al-Qā‘idah Thought: Violence Cannot be Treated by Violence
Source: Al-Sharq al-Awsat
Pages: 22
Author: Turkī al-Suhayl
Keywords: Muftī

Hānī Labīb provides a panorama of what he believes shows positive progress toward citizenship in Egypt in 2007.

Al-Bannā supports Dr Zaynab Radwān’s calls for equality between men and women in testimony and for non-Muslims wives to inherit from their Muslim husbands.

The author criticizes the prominent Muslim dā‘iyah Shaykh Khālid al-Jindī for his statement against Islamic thinker Jamāl al-Bannā in which al-Jindī said that he would have killed al-Bannā had he graduated from the Azhar.

In an interview with Mahmūd ‘Īsá, Muslim thinker Jamāl al-Bannā elaborates on many of his controversial stances and honors the Qur’ān as the only authentic point of reference for Muslims. He also declares that the divine influence of the Qur’ān is not in the human interpretation of the Qur’ānic verses, but in the influence that the word of God itself has on the listener.

On a program screened on Egyptian TV, Shaykh Khālid al-Jindī has threatened to slaughter the author for opposing his controversial fatwás.

The following issue of AWR presents a number of articles on the recent disputes around the monastery of Abū Fānā, Upper Egypt, including AWR interviews with governor Ahmed Dia el-Din, father Dumadios from the Monastery of Abu Fana, the head of the Arab Bani Khaled tribe, two prominent shaykhs, four press reviews of articles in Egyptian media covering the month of June, a photo gallery of Abu Fana, maps of the monastery and surroundings and a film following our July 3-5 visit. Hulsman also comments on a number of articles that deal with Islamophobia in this issue.

Lawyer Nabīh al-Wahsh calls for an urgent trial against Muslim thinker Jamāl al-Bannā. He filed a claim to the attorney general and called into question al-Bannā’s mental state.

Dr. Muntasir tackles the launch of Khalīd al-Jindy as the formal dā‘iyah of the state through the famous TV program al-Bit Bītak [Feel free] and criticizes him for his statement about Jamāl al-Bannā and defends the latter as a part of his rejection to denying the other’s right to have different opinion.