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Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 21, 2014
Salafi preacher, Muhammad al- Abassīrī, stated that the Salafis are a danger to Egypt and that they believe that the nation and ruler are apostates.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 1, 2014
Sources have revealed to al-Tahrīr newspaper that a meeting is to be held within the next 48 hours between prominent sheikhs in the Salafī organization and leaders within the Ministry of Endowments.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 25, 2011
Responding to the huge stand of the salafīs yesterday before in Kafr el-Shaykh to support Shaykh Abu Ishāq al-Hūwīnī against Muftī Alī Gum’ah, a large number of scholars and students from al-Azhar and the global union of sūfī scholars headed by Prof. Hassan al-Shāfi’ī decided to organize a stand...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 2, 2011
Ādmon Butrus, the deputy chief of the Coptic league in Lebanon, discredited reports that the Muslim Brotherhood and the salafists are controlling the streets in Egypt after the downfall of the former regime.
"They won't get more than 5% of seats inside the People's Assembly in the forthcoming...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 18, 2001
Sharīf al-Shūbāshī wonders in an opinion article in al-Ahrām whether it is logical to ask the party that first sparked a fire to put it down, referring to attempts to have salafists intervening to end the current sectarian crisis.
He said he has watched mind-boggling Youtube clips showing men,...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 11, 2011
The hardline Islamists, blamed for attacks on Coptic churches, had already been accused of stoking religious strife since the uprising that ousted the former regime which had kept them in check for decades.
Many salafī clerics proscribe rebellions against Muslim rulers and shy away from democratic...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 1, 2011
On 1 May protesters suspended their sit-in outside St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo for 15 days. After the Friday Prayer, Cairo witnessed three separate protests staged by Salafists, calling for the release of Coptic women who converted to Islam, but were supposedly held against their will be the...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 17, 2011
On April 16, 2011, 18 new governors were appointed by the head of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. In Qena, Egyptians protested against the newly appointed Coptic governor ‘Imād Shihātah Michael, who replaced the former governor Majdī Ayūb, who was also a Copt. Demonstrators, who are mainly...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 28, 2011
Edward Cody, writer in the Washington Post, writes that the biggest winners of the [January] 25 revolution are the Salafists. He described them as Islamic fundamentalists who would like to see the strictest form of Islam applied to all of Egypt and across the Middle East.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 27, 2010
Shaykh Marzūq al-Shahāt, the head of the Azhar's Fatwá committee, says that Azhar scholars may join political parties. However, he says they are restricted from joining any religious streams, whether Salafī, Muslim Brotherhood, or others.
He added that it is not appropriate for any Azhar scholar to...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.