Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
Subtitle: In Western media, every Muslim is a terrorist or another Khomeini At the Al-Albeit University, north of the Jordanian capital Amman, scholars from 90 Islamic and Arabic universities gathered to discuss the challenges facing the Islamic world. One of the most important challenges discussed...
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 1999
An article about a corruption case of a police colonel who was ready to free prisoners for the exchange of money.
Date of source: Friday, November 26, 1999
Interview with Dr. Nasr Abu Zeid about his love for Egypt, his status at the Cairo University and Leiden University (The Netherlands), how it happened he was declared an apostate, how he left Egypt and his views about Islam and the West.
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 1999
Examples of several extremists who want to use their time in prison to study for a degree. None of these studies are related to Islam. The Ministry of Interior would not tolerate this.
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 1999
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh blew up a truck in Oklahoma, killing 168 people. The rumor mill rolled into action, churning out that old bogey: Islamic extremism.
As we now know, the terror that rocked America that day was not of Muslim provenance. But it seems the lessons of that affair are...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 1999
The Yemeni government executed Zein Al-Abedeen Al-Mihdar, leader of the Islamist extremist group the Abyan-Aden Islamist Army, in the capital Sana’a on 17 October. Three Britons and an Australian died in a pitched battle between members of the Islamist group and units of the Yemeni army who were...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 1999
The student union elections held on 2 November have elicited little more than a yawn, if indeed they were noticed at all. The glory days of campus politics have long since passed, or so it would seem.
Date of source: Monday, November 15, 1999
Islamic trend students proved, in the elections for the Students Union at Cairo University last year, that they are the best organized and that they are capable of gathering the largest number of students around them.
Date of source: Sunday, November 14, 1999
Dr. Hamed Abu Zayd said that the most important issue occupying his mind is the crisis of modern religious thought and the problems of the different interpretations of the Qur`an. There have been several versions of the Qur’an but one was left over and other versions of the Qur`an were burned.
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 1999
"Fundamentalist" elements are said to be behind recent assaults and intimidation of faculty members at Ma’an’s fledgling Hussein Ben Talal University, sources said on Saturday.