Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2005
With the death of Prophet Muhammad and Abu Bakr’s hold on the caliphate, Islam simply served as a pretext for the ruler and his decisions and then as a pretext for the clerics serving the rulers. This has blinded Muslims’ understanding of the role of political opposition within their religion.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 22, 2005
Are we underdeveloped in knowledge and civilization or in religion? Men of religion will answer the lack of faith among Muslim youth is the reason. What they are missing that they are primarily responsible for that underdevelopment throughout the history of Islam.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 9, 2004
With that speedy pace in the quest for knowledge and progress and attempts to explore the space, the people in our country are still living in the pre-science age, confiscated, tried or simply wasted for just trying to prove they are capacitated, and so the bodies grow while the mind stays in a...
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 19, 2001
A lawsuit started by a lawyer against Dr. Nawal Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband raised a number of questions about the intentions and secret agendas of some lawyers and the interest groups supporting them. There is an organized group whose main concern may be to start such lawsuits...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 6, 2001
Khalil Abdel-Karim, the author of "The formation period in the life of Mohammed," was a member of the defense team of Dr. Nasr Abu-Zeid. He is a leader in the leftist Tagammu’ Party. He has an intense interest in books raising debates on civilizational heritage. In these books views are presented...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 2001 to الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 15, 2001
The author argues that Egyptian society can turn against those [The Azhar Scholars Front] who accuse it of apostasy. It can even give evidence that they work for the interests of bodies that aim to eliminate the cultural role of Egypt and accuse them of distracting Egyptians from their real...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 2, 2000
The Ibn Roshd group has held a seminar about the defense of ijtihad [the freedom of interpretation in Islam] in the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies, just hours before the tribunal verdict in an Hesba case which was filed by Sheikh Youssef Al-Badri, against the book "Father Adam" written by...
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2000
"Giving statements requires being logical and fluent, and everything that lacks reason and does not reveal a truth is not a statement, even in signed by a hundred "intellectuals"!!, whether headed or not headed by Said Al-Naggar [Al-Naggar means the carpenter], the blacksmith, or even Said the car-...
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 20, 2000
This is a statement about the recent events of Al-Kosheh. Hundreds of cultured people in Egypt signed it. These people care about the country’s concerns.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 25, 2000
At the time when the country is exerting a lot of effort to remove the negative signs of Al-Kosheh events, one of the secular cultured persons who is called Sayyed Al-Qimni appeared on an Arabic [TV] channel and encouraged people to raise another riot. In this show, he confirmed the claims of the...