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General Bishop Theodosius of Giza said the incidents in Dahshūr were not a fitnah tā'fīyah but rather thuggish acts under the guise of religion, denouncing the "new drive" of mass expulsion of Copts. "The two persons who fanned the flames of the incidents were friends in the first place. Part of...
Dr. 'Abd al-Tawāb Qutb, the deputy shaykh of the Azhar, said he expected a breakthrough in the Dahshūr crisis soon thanks to efforts exerted during the past few days to prevent the explosive situation from proliferating. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, Aug. 5, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
Al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah said that the regrettable incidents in Dahshūr did not amount to a sectarian fitnah but were rather extension of an individual problem between two persons that had no religious dimension. The Jamā'ah, in a statement, said that it is not acceptable at all from a Muslim...
The Shūrá Council commission led by Muhammad al-Fiqī, Chairman of the Council's Financial and Economic Affairs Committee, had visited Dahshūr in a bid to settle the disputes between Muslims and Copts there. A rally comprising Muslim and Christian local residents, interior ministry officials and...
The conciliatory session, in which the president's advisor, a delegation from the Shūrá Council, the deputy shaykh of the Azhar and the governor of Giza took part, successfully calmed the tension in Dahshūr after clashes erupted there between two Muslim and Christian families. Mu'āz Muhammad Hasab...
Security agencies in Giza on Saturday (Aug. 4), in coordination with local popular and executive leaders, had several meetings and conciliatory sessions between Muslims and Christians in Dahshūr to bring Christian families back to their homes in the village. A commission composed of 10 Muslims and...
Dr. Yāsir ‘Alī, the presidential spokesman, denied that “Coptic brothers” were compulsorily displaced out of the village of Dahshūr after the recent clashes, adding reports received by the presidency affirmed that they left the village due to security conditions. [Nāsir ‘Abd al-Majīd, ‘Umnīyah...
Mursī gave instructions to Giza Governor 'Alī 'Abd al-Rahman to speed up containment of the crisis that erupted there, including the formation of a commission within 24 hours to survey the losses and include them into the dossier of current investigations. The commission is to estimate the proper...
President Muhammad Mursī ordered the authorities concerned to secure the return of Coptic families who left their homes during last week's deplorable incidents of unrest in the impoverished Giza district of Dahshūr and firmly enforce the law in order to preserve peaceful coexistence. Presidential...
The crisis over the drafting of Article II of the Constitution continued after representatives of the salafī camp insisted on the addition of the phrase “legislators shall enact laws based on the sources of the four Islamic madhāhib (doctrines)” as precondition for keeping the phrase “principles of...

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