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The liberal Moroccan writer Saʿīd Nāshīd views that the pattern of religion inherited from the jurisprudence of the imperial ages is no longer convenient for the age of the nation state. What is more, it constitutes a direct threat to peace and security. In his interview with “Al-Dustūr”, Nāshīd...
Meanwhile, the Alexandria court of urgent matters on Thursday (May 31) turned down a lawsuit regarding the Two Saints Church bombing case against Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in his capacity as the person in charge of running the country’s affairs during the...
A war of flyers and exchanged accusations raged between supporters of Brotherhood’s Muhammad Mursī and former prime minister Ahmad Shafīq in several Egyptian governorates a couple of weeks ahead of the runoff scheduled for June 16-17. [Ghādah ‘Abd al-Hāfiz, al-Misrī al-Yawm, June 1, p. 5] Read...
The Coptic Orthodox Church emphasized that it grants full freedom for all its congregation to choose between the two presidential candidates in the runoff, reiterating that it stands at an equal distance towards all candidates, said Bishop Thomas of al-Qūsīyah after a Holy Synod meeting on...
The three Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches denied they had any contacts from Muslim Brotherhood leaders for dialogue on guarantees the group should offer to civil powers as part of its plans to back its candidate Mursī in the runoff. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān and Nashwá al-Shirbīnī, ...
‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahman, a leading jihādist imprisoned in the United States, on Friday (June 1) said he supports Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Muhammad Mursī in the runoff round against Ahmad Shafīq on June 16-17. ‘Abd al-Rahman’s family said in a statement by his son Muhammad that the imprisoned ...
“My bay’ah (pledge of allegiance to a ruler in Islam) will be strictly for the people, not for the Muslim Brotherhood group,” said Mursī during an interview with On TV’s talk show host Yusrī Fūdah. [Āyah ‘Āmir, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, June 1, p. 5] Read text in Arabic
Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) candidate for the presidency Muhammad Mursī said Copts, like any other Muslim, are first class citizens, noting “this is not a gift I offer to Copts but I am only stressing the rights of Christians as well as Muslims”. [Āyah ‘Āmir, al-Shurūq al-...
Some Brotherhood members believe that the group needs a kind of ideological renovation like that of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya. Other members believe that the Brotherhood does not have anything to apologize for, and that it did not cause any harm to society at any time, which is not the case for...
Majdī Khalīl criticizes Muslim extremists who he believes are leading the Arab and Muslim world to backwardness and preventing them from keeping up with modernization.

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