Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 16, 2004
The Hebrew newspaper Hatsoveh published an
article on January 20, written by Hagi Hofferman, in which it attacked newspapers that criticized
the Bibliotheca Alexandria’s decision to withdraw the controversial Protocols of Zion from the
shelves of the library. Al-Arabi and Al-Usboa were attacked...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 22, 2004
The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has rejected accusations of being a terrorist group, stressing its desire to serve Egypt’s interests and to achieve security and
stability in the country.
- See art. 6: Who rules the Azhar…the Grand Imam or the US ambassador?!
- See art. 12: Sectarian strife or...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 14, 2004
The professor of Philosophy and Islamic Doctrine at the Azhar
University Dr. Sa’ad Eddin Saleh states in his book titled “Al-Ekhwan Al-Muslimoun…ela Ayn?" [The
Muslim Brotherhood: To Where?] that the problem of the Muslim Brotherhood is the leadership. This
problem started after the death of the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 7, 2004
Muslim intellectual Dr. Abdel Azim Al-Mata’ani said the Azhar is playing a vital role in the confrontation against deviant thought that views itself as innovation, adding the Azhar is not entitled to confiscate any works of art.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 25, 2004
Mudslinging reached dizzy heights between Muslim Brotherhood and the Nasserists in the wake of the publishing of Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi’s diary in which the Muslim attacked (late Egyptian President) Gamal Abd Al-Nasser with foul language and accused him of disbelief and fighting Islam and that...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 24, 2005
The relation between the late president Jamāl ‘Abd al-Nāsir and the Muslim Brotherhood is debatable. Councilor al-Dimirdāsh al-‘Uqaylī, former member of the secret formation of the Muslim Brotherhood, confessed that Abd al-Nāssir’s contributions to the Brotherhood were more than mere revolutionary...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 20, 2005
The Islamic state? A contradiction in terms. Jihad? Far too much emphasis these days on military action. A requirement that women wear a veil? A quaint leftover from pre-Muslim times that is not mandated by Islam.
These and other observations by Gamal Banna, an 84-year-old Egyptian author, have...
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 13, 2005
In his book Shāhid ‘Ala Waqf al-‘Unf: Tahawwulāt al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya fī Misr [A witness to halting violence: shifts of al- Jamā‘a Islāmīya in Egypt], writer ‘Abd al-Latīf al-Manāwī detects the inspiration of al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya.
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2005
During an interview with al-Ahrām al-‘Arabī magazine, Anbā Bīsantī, Bishop of Hilwān and al-Ma‘sara, asserted that “the absence of democracy during late President ‘Abd al-Nāsir’s time reflected on the Copts.”
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 3, 2005
My father named me Muhammad Najīb after two of his colleagues; Muhammad [a Muslim] and Najīb [a Christian]. I have never regarded people as Muslims and Christians; we are one entity united with love and brotherhood.