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Many women have staged a peaceful rally to denounce the latest deadly sectarian violence that occured in Imbābah. The participants stressed the values of citizenship and tolerance and denounced the sectarian clashes. The purpose of the rally, organized by the Cairo-based Egyptian Centre for Women's...
The death toll from sectarian clashes in Imbābah on 7 May rose to 15, said the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), blaming the attacks on security vacuum (including the spread of illegal weapons) and a rise in Islamist extremism. However, according to the organization, there “can be no denial...
Fanatics lose one round; Nūr Qaldas; Watani Printing and Publishing Corporation; Cairo; June 2010
 Ahmad al-Ghazūlī believe that there has to be Islamic secularity that build so that a Muslim Democratic party can be built above it, that can interact and not only coexist with non-muslims. He proposed the idea of establishing a Muslim secularity that excludes the fake Muslim Brotherhood...
Manāl ‘Abd ‘Azīz critically discusses Coptic calls for a civil state and the abolishment of Islamic sharī‘ah as the main source of Egypt’s legislation, as stated in the second article of the Egyptian Constitution. While she argues that such Coptic reform propositions are understandable when viewed...
Security around churches has been tightened and extra police personnel deployed ahead of Coptic Christmas celebrations, which come just one week after the church bombing at Alexandria's Church of Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter. Pope Shenouda III will lead the Christmas Mass as usual, with...
Safīnāz Kāzim disagrees with those who call for the separation of religion and politics, stating that the nation of Egypt is necessarily a religious country. In her opinion, every Muslim's ideal governing system of Muslim land involves Islamic rule with Islamic laws.
Sharīf al-Shūbāshī writes that the success of democracy depends on the success of secularism. Further, he says that secularism should not be thought of as necessarily opposing religion. He added that the most serious lesson of human history is that "the marriage of politics and religion is vicious...
Asmā’ Nassār argues that Egypt cannot be a civil country without making a distinction between religion and state. For instance, she says that some Egyptian schools force Christians to memorize verses from the Qur'ān. Nassār recommends several ways to improve the civil state in Egypt. The first way...
The author argues that the Wafd party is not secular. He says that secularism entails total separation between the state and religion. However, the Wafd members do not advocate abolishing the second article of the Constitution, which stipulates that Islamic sharī'ah is the major source of...

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