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On February 1st, Elizabeth Kendal, an international religious liberty analyst and advocate, published an article titled, “Egypt: The Gross Insecurity of the Dhimmī,” for Assist News Service (ANS), an online publication based out of California. Her goal in the article is to advocate for the...
Salafi politics has taken Egypt by storm. This has surprised many commentators who underestimated their base of thought and non-political nature. For others, it has been a validation of years of Salafi work in mosques and surrounding communities to preach Islam and help the poor.   As an aid to...
Shaykh Hamdī ‘Abd al-Fattāh is a unique personality in Egypt. Little known outside of his home region of Maghagha in Upper Egypt, he is a candidate for parliament running under the banner of the Salafi Nour Party. In and of itself, there is nothing unusual here – the Nour Party has searched for and...
Islamic movements continued their preparations for participation in the Friday of identity and stability in a million-man protest due to be staged in Tahrīr Square and other major squares across Egypt.
Islamists have imposed themselves in the Egyptian society after the January 25 revolution and rolled up their sleeves to establish parties, nearly 20, including the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood group.
Acts of violence erupted at a demonstration the evening before last (August 21, 2011), which was attended by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafī movement, April 6 Youth Movement, and the Revolution Youth Coalition. The main battle comprised of the Muslim Brotherhood Youth on one side and the Youth...
Islamic groups threatened to organize a Million-Man protest and ascend its position as a response to what has been announced by the Deputy Prime Minister 'Alī al-Silmī, who said that the government will issue a new constitutional declaration. Read original text in Arabic
For their part, the Coptic youth movement Maspero Youth issued a statement in which it declared its deep concern at the dominion of the Islamist currents. They revealed their total discontent with the raising of the Saudi flag by the Islamists, and said they were fully prepared to defend the option...
What had been planned as a “Friday of unifying the ranks” ended, as unanimously agreed by the Egyptian media, as a “Friday of splitting the ranks”. While the day began with various political groups, including Islamists, converging on Tahrir Square in numbers that came close to a million, it ended...
Coptic activists are against turning the Egyptian Revolution into a religious issue for Islamists took over Tahrir Square last Friday, during a protest. There were no agreements among different political groups before the protests.

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