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Wā’il Lutfī provides an overview of the French novel, Monsieur Ibrahim et Les Fleurs du Coran by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, and critiques its representation of Muslims.
Wā’il Lutfī writes about ‘Amr Khālid as a phenomenon.
Minister of Information Dr. Mamdouh Al-Beltagui requested that “A girl from Shubra” [Bent Min Shubra] be screened before the Church and the Azhar before being aired on Egyptian television. We say that the decision of the minister is unwise. Nothing in the television series raises the necessity of...
We can rest assured to consider the recent fatwa issued by the Egyptian Dar Al-Ifta [Fatwa-giving House] rendering haram [unlawful according to Shari’a] the practice of the yoga sport as one of the most serious during the past few years. This fatwa inspires an attitude of close-mindedness towards...
Over time, a new genre of preachers has appeared--those who specialize in social and family counseling, which is a well-known profession in American society. But those who practice it in Egypt have given it an Islamic shade, and thus, they have played an important role in attracting thousands of...
President Chirac stressed the necessity of applying the ban on the veil to everyone at school during his annual TV speech on the occasion of the French Revolution’s anniversary. - He said that the French are all equal and, therefore, reject sectarianism
Among the many examples of social hypocrisy and trade manipulating religion, a striking new phenomenon can now be added. Newspapers have become abundant with strange advertisements for maids. The companies that advertise available maids are described as “Islamic”. They make ‘pious’ Muslim maids...
I have no idea if the homicide and suicide concepts exit in Islam, or if it is a new fatwa issued by the Jihād jurisprudents, assuming that God is on their side, but suicide in other cultures would be committed to get a better life, but in the Jihādist point of view, you have to kill others and...
Many Azhar professors said that shaking hands between women and men is not haram as long as the people involved in the handshake do not have bad intentions of lust or desire. Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi criticized the way Sheikh Atiya Saqr follows in interpreting hadiths. He said that Sheikh Saqr...
Sheikh Attiya Saqr issued a fatwa to the effect that shaking hands between men and women is haram [religiously forbidden], as men touches the hands of women with the aim of satisfying their desires. Some Azhar professors and Islamic thinkers believed the fatwa to be strange and extremist.

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