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Those confounded maps

By Nader Shukry, Watani News

Last Wednesday a 50-member special committee formed by Minya governor Ahmed Diaa Eddin left Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, and headed 30km south to the fourth century desert monastery of Abu-Fana. The alleged task of the committee, which was accompanied by security forces in more than 15 trucks, was to draw the borders of the monastery grounds in order to determine the path of a protecting fencing wall. For Abu-Fana inmates and Mallawi bishopric-to which the monastery is affiliated-that task was in itself preposterous since it implied that the monastery grounds were not well defined. But it was a fact that the monastery was in possession of the ownership documents of all its grounds and has been regularly paying the annual land tax incurred.
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Those confounded maps

By Nader Shukry, Watani News

Last Wednesday a 50-member special committee formed by Minya governor Ahmed Diaa Eddin left Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, and headed 30km south to the fourth century desert monastery of Abu-Fana. The alleged task of the committee, which was accompanied by security forces in more than 15 trucks, was to draw the borders of the monastery grounds in order to determine the path of a protecting fencing wall. For Abu-Fana inmates and Mallawi bishopric-to which the monastery is affiliated-that task was in itself preposterous since it implied that the monastery grounds were not well defined. But it was a fact that the monastery was in possession of the ownership documents of all its grounds and has been regularly paying the annual land tax incurred.
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Ministry of Interior Calls Scholars to Train State Security Investigation Officers on Combating the Shiite Ideology

By  Ahmed el-Khatib, Munir Adeeb   

Dr. Abdel Moneim al-Barri, professor of Islamic Culture of Facutly of Da’wa and chief of deposed Al-Azhar scholars front revealed that Ministry of Interior has called him and a number of scholars specialized in Shiite ideology to deliver some lectures to state security investigation officers inside some prison buildings and dept. offices on the Shiite ideology and plans to break through the Sunni countries.  A security source refused to comment on this issue.
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Ministry of Interior Calls Scholars to Train State Security Investigation Officers on Combating the Shiite Ideology

By  Ahmed el-Khatib, Munir Adeeb   

Dr. Abdel Moneim al-Barri, professor of Islamic Culture of Facutly of Da’wa and chief of deposed Al-Azhar scholars front revealed that Ministry of Interior has called him and a number of scholars specialized in Shiite ideology to deliver some lectures to state security investigation officers inside some prison buildings and dept. offices on the Shiite ideology and plans to break through the Sunni countries.  A security source refused to comment on this issue.
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Egypt Gets into State of “Sectarian Congestion” not Sedition: Experts

By  Adel el-Dargali   

Politicians and partisan leaderships described the recent incidents in Egypt as “sectarian congestion”, refusing to call them “sectarian sedition”.

They attributed the state of congestion to the Church’s growing political role and the prevailing climate in the society. They called for bringing into effect citizenship values and solving problems apart from official institutions.
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21 Copts Appeal against Amendments to 1938 Statute

By  Amr Bayoumi   

More than 21 Copts lodged appeals to the Administrative Judiciary Court against the amendments introduced to the 1938 statute relating to the Christians’ personal status.

 They called for canceling the administrative decree issued by the Orthodox Church’s General Congregation Council amending the statute.
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21 Copts Appeal against Amendments to 1938 Statute

By  Amr Bayoumi   

More than 21 Copts lodged appeals to the Administrative Judiciary Court against the amendments introduced to the 1938 statute relating to the Christians’ personal status.

 They called for canceling the administrative decree issued by the Orthodox Church’s General Congregation Council amending the statute.
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Cairo’s gated compounds show rich-poor gulf

Huge difference between Egyptian minority living in luxury and majority of population under poverty line.
PALM HILLS, Egypt - The four-wheel-drives outside the terracotta villas include a Lexus and a Porsche, and under the shade of the palms and the bright red poinciana trees men in liveried overalls are buffing them to a shine.
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Al-Masry Al-Youm Publishes Prosecution Investigations in Abu-Fana Monastery (1-2)

By  Said Nafea   

Al-Masry Al-Youm obtained a copy of the investigations launched by South Menya Prosecution into the Abu-Fana Monastery incidents.

The investigations, which were carried out by chief prosecutor Ayman Mamdouh, said the chief prosecutor received a phone call on May 31 from Yunis Hassan, head of Mallawi Police Station prosecution, about the gunshots at Abu-Fana Monastery, west of the city of Abu-Fana.
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Protest Egyptian government allowing criminal attacks on Coptic Christians

By Online  

Coptic Christians and their supporters will demonstrate on Parliament Hill at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 5, 2008 against the Egyptian government for continuing to allow criminal elements to wage regular attacks on Egyptian Copts and their properties.

Buses carrying demonstrators from Montreal and Toronto will join with Ottawa Copts for the peaceful demonstration organized by the Canadian Coptic Association. From Parliament Hill, the demonstrators will march at 2:00 p.m. to the Egyptian Embassy at 454 Laurier Avenue East to continue their protest.
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Egypt fighting population growth

Egyptian government advocates family planning as population growing faster than economy can support.
CAIRO - Red and white banners along Nile bridges and Cairo streets this month were Egypt’s latest effort to curb an increasingly pressing problem: a population growing faster than the economy can support.
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Egypt to press ahead with adhan unification – but quietly

Posted by: Aziz El-Kaissouni Tags: FaithWorld, adhan, egypt, islam, mosque, music, muslim, muslim world, places of worship, ritual

Is Egypt’s Ministry of Religious Endowments planning to blindside people by quietly implementing an unpopular project to unify the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer?
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Egyptians against Discrimination Promotes for a Draft Law of Equal Opportunities among Citizens

By  Hesham Allam, Shaimaa Adel   

Can People’s Assembly assimilate a law on equal opportunities and banning discrimination among citizens, at the time its members did not accept the statement of Ministry of Justice: ‘In the name of Allah Whom we all worship?’” 

 This was a question addressed to Mona Zul Feqar, attorney and member of national council of human rights, by one of the attendees of the seminar organized by ‘Egyptians against discrimination’ during discussion of the draft law of ‘equal opportunities and banning discrimination among citizens’.
The draft law calls for the principle of equal opportunity and banning discrimination among citizens on the basis of race, religion, social status or health condition.  

The general concept of the principles of equal opportunities   has to be turned into legislative rules that impose definite obligations and penalize violators. 
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Egyptians against Discrimination Promotes for a Draft Law of Equal Opportunities among Citizens

By  Hesham Allam, Shaimaa Adel   

Can People’s Assembly assimilate a law on equal opportunities and banning discrimination among citizens, at the time its members did not accept the statement of Ministry of Justice: ‘In the name of Allah Whom we all worship?’” 

 This was a question addressed to Mona Zul Feqar, attorney and member of national council of human rights, by one of the attendees of the seminar organized by ‘Egyptians against discrimination’ during discussion of the draft law of ‘equal opportunities and banning discrimination among citizens’.
The draft law calls for the principle of equal opportunity and banning discrimination among citizens on the basis of race, religion, social status or health condition.  

The general concept of the principles of equal opportunities   has to be turned into legislative rules that impose definite obligations and penalize violators. 
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Egyptians against Discrimination Promotes for a Draft Law of Equal Opportunities among Citizens

By  Hesham Allam, Shaimaa Adel   

Can People’s Assembly assimilate a law on equal opportunities and banning discrimination among citizens, at the time its members did not accept the statement of Ministry of Justice: ‘In the name of Allah Whom we all worship?’” 

 This was a question addressed to Mona Zul Feqar, attorney and member of national council of human rights, by one of the attendees of the seminar organized by ‘Egyptians against discrimination’ during discussion of the draft law of ‘equal opportunities and banning discrimination among citizens’.
The draft law calls for the principle of equal opportunity and banning discrimination among citizens on the basis of race, religion, social status or health condition.  

The general concept of the principles of equal opportunities   has to be turned into legislative rules that impose definite obligations and penalize violators. 
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Muslim convert left hoax bomb message

Yorkshire Post 

A WHITE Muslim convert planted a hoax bomb on a bus full of people with a note saying that ‘Britain must be punished’, a court was told today.

Nicholas Roddis, 22, is said to have disguised himself with a long black beard before planting the fake home-made nailbomb on a crowded bus in May last year.

A court heard yesterday that Roddis, of Rotherham, had recently learned the teachings of Islam in a move to convert over to the religion and had even recorded the preachings of disgraced cleric Abu Hamza.
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Muslim convert left hoax bomb message

Yorkshire Post 

A WHITE Muslim convert planted a hoax bomb on a bus full of people with a note saying that ‘Britain must be punished’, a court was told today.

Nicholas Roddis, 22, is said to have disguised himself with a long black beard before planting the fake home-made nailbomb on a crowded bus in May last year.

A court heard yesterday that Roddis, of Rotherham, had recently learned the teachings of Islam in a move to convert over to the religion and had even recorded the preachings of disgraced cleric Abu Hamza.
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Muslim convert left hoax bomb message

Yorkshire Post 

A WHITE Muslim convert planted a hoax bomb on a bus full of people with a note saying that ‘Britain must be punished’, a court was told today.

Nicholas Roddis, 22, is said to have disguised himself with a long black beard before planting the fake home-made nailbomb on a crowded bus in May last year.

A court heard yesterday that Roddis, of Rotherham, had recently learned the teachings of Islam in a move to convert over to the religion and had even recorded the preachings of disgraced cleric Abu Hamza.
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Three Terrorist Groups Arrested for Planning Explosions

By  Ahmed el-Khatib   

Security services have arrested three major terrorist groups in Cairo, Qalyubia and Gharbia in a major operation since the arrest of the group accused of contacting al-Qaeda last year.
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Coptic Front against Amendments of Personal Status Law

By  Amr Bayoumi   

A Coptic source said that intensive meetings of Coptic lawyers and public figures are underway to form a front to meet Pope Shenouda III when he returns from the United States and discuss with him the amendments of the personal status law of the Orthodox.
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