Date of source: Saturday, January 11, 2003 to Friday, January 17, 2003
Thieves, corrupt and unemployed people who look for an easy life in the luxurious European countries ask for political asylum with the claim that they are persecuted in Egypt. The reasons for their alleged persecution are homosexuality, female circumcision and changing religion.
Date of source: Saturday, January 11, 2003 to Friday, January 17, 2003
Ijtihad is no longer bringing about new human opinions that consider the conditions and changes of life but is simply studying the opinions of the predecessors and try to discover rules in their work. Those rules have been turned into holy rules without which no ijtihad can be made. Such...
Date of source: Monday, December 23, 2002
The text of a lecture on human rights and civil society in Egypt, including a discussion on numbers of exaggerated stories in the West, rumors and civil society.
Date of source: Saturday, June 15, 2002
A Dutch television channel broadcast excerpts from Friday sermons in some Dutch mosques. They claimed they stirred up resentment against Bush and Sharon. A representative from one of the mosques accused the program of misrepresentation.
Date of source: Saturday, April 27, 2002 to Friday, May 3, 2002
Some Muslims claimed that the sura of Al-Tawba [Repentance] included a prophecy predicting the September 11 attacks. The author explained how this group of Muslims arrived at this conclusion. He refuted their claim and concluded that they are not on the side of Islam but offend Islam and Muslims.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Dr. Abdel-Mo´ti Bayoumi expressed the opinion that Muslims need to adopt a religious discourse that can reconcile them with the whole world. He added that all scholars have the right to give fatwas and even women can give fatwas.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Salah Hashim, the founder of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya spoke about the Gama´at since its foundation in Assiut, the role the then governor of Assiut played in relation to the formation of the Gama´at and their disputes with the Muslim Brotherhood. He supports the corrective review of the ideologies of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 2, 2002
The leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya expressed their complete agreement to end the actions to kill. They affirmed that their mistakes in the past came as a result of a false Ijtihad. In this article they explain the legal basis behind their renunciation of violence and reconsideration of old...
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2002
The author believes that America helped the Islamic revolution in Iran to establish the Islamic Shiite Iranian republic and helped Islamists in Egypt with the aim of establishing the Islamic Sunni republic in Egypt, to create conflicts between Sunnis and Shiites in the Islamic world. America...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 28, 2006
This press review tackles the Sunni-Shiite clashes in Iraq, the Egyptian initiative forwarded by top Sunni Muslim scholars in Egypt to bring an end to the violence, and the exchanged assaults on the shrines of both sides.