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The Egypt Copts Coalition participated in a ceremony it organized on Monday (July 23) to commemorate martyr Mīnā Dānyāl, who was killed during the October 9, 2011 incidents outside the state radio and TV building in the area of Maspero. [Shādyah Yūsuf, al-Ahrām, July 24, p. 4] Read original text in...
Meanwhile, leaders of salafī parties and movements said the implementation of the hudūd (system of penalties for offences and crimes in Islam) has become imminent because the people strongly support that, adding the secularists are weak and excel nothing but blabbering while they do not have actual...
A new proposed article by the Azhar criminalizing any insults to God, the prophets, Orthodox Caliphs or the Prophet Muhammad’s wives stirred differences and arguments between the top Sunni institution and Copts. [Rajab al-Murshidī and Salāh al-Dīn Hassan, al-Watan, July 24, p. 5] Read text in...
Civil movements rejected a proposal by ‘Ādil ‘Afīfī, leader of the salafī al-Asālah (Authenticity) Party, to form a commission of top scholars comprising salafī preachers and Azhar officials to be in charge of interpreting the principles of the sharī’ah stated in the Egyptian Constitution,...
Al-Wafd Party said it abides by the papers signed with other political parties and movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and salafī parties and said it rejects any attempts to change Article II of the Constitution. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, July 24, p...
Dr. Amnah Nusayr, a professor at the AzharUniversity, termed as “shameful” the incident, adding the Bible is a holy book and its desecration should not be ignored by any of the followers of all divine religions. Dr. Zakī ‘Uthmān, a member of the senior scholars board in the Azhar, said Jews do not...
[Reviewer’s Note: The paper mentioned that Israeli Member of Knesset Michael Ben-Ari from the National Union Party has burnt a copy of the Bible while he actually tore a New Testament from a copy of the Holy Book and threw it in the trash bin] Najīb Jabrā’īl, Chairman of the Egyptian Union for...
Another Coptic activist, John Tal’at, called for expelling the Israeli ambassador in response to Ben-Ari’s destroying a New Testament, urging strong actions against such “insolence”. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 20, p. 13] Read original text in Arabic
A salafī-leaning newspaper, al-Rahmā, harshly criticized public figures in the Egyptian society and said those persons are conspiring against the January 25 Revolution. The paper named talk show host Sayīd ‘Alī, former parliament member Muhammad Abū Hāmid, outspoken critic of Islamists Tawfīq ‘...
The addition of the phrase “...and non-Muslims may have recourse to their own religious laws” to the constitution is needless because Islam guarantees non-Muslims to practice their rituals and beliefs freely anyway. There are no texts in the Egyptian constitutions since 1923 that forbid a woman, a...

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