Paradoxes in Egypt (3) “Human Rights Organizations and Islamic Sharia” All Human Rights Organizations in Egypt talking about human rights, and advocating the promotion of human rights situation in Egypt, by many methods. They are focusing on all human rights… Read More ›
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Paradoxes in Egypt (1) “Banning Religiously-Oriented Political Parties”
Paradoxes in Egypt (1) “Banning Religiously-Oriented Political Parties” Many public figures and political activists has launched a campaign advocating the disbanding of religiously oriented parties, by collecting signatures to lobby for banning and boycotting religiously-oriented political parties in Egypt, for… Read More ›
Egyptian Atheists’ Show; Black Ducks
By: Hassan Kamal Egypt, the bustling country of ninety million inhabitants in the heart of the Middle East, where Islam, through out the land, is the prominent and dominating religion socially and constitutionally for more than a millennia. Birthplace to… Read More ›
Does El-Sisi Support Atheism?
By: Hassan Kamal In a very religious day for Muslims in Ramadan (Laylat al-Qadr), and at the highest Islamic Sunni, Al-Azhar, organizing by Egypt’s religious Endowments Ministry, and presence of Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb, the Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab,… Read More ›
Atheists Are Calling For Democracy in Egypt
CAIRO – After leaving their religions whatever Islam or Christianity and turning to atheism, Egyptian atheists are now calling for establishing a real democracy in Egypt that based on four basic elements; secularization, social contract, enlightenment and liberalism. Hassan Kamal, an… Read More ›
Religion and Politics in Egypt: The Ugly Truth
By: Hassan Kamal In Egypt, every time you turn on the television watching talk show hosting politician or flick through the pages of a local newspaper or social media to read a statement by political party, you learn more about… Read More ›
Hassan Kamal Speaks Live – Why Are We Atheists?
By: Hassan Kamal WHY ARE WE ATHESTS? – In a new episode about atheism and agnostic in the Arab-Islamic World, Hassan Kamal is speaking to The Black Ducks talk show on Friday 26 June, 2015 at 5:00 pm (Cairo’s time). The Black… Read More ›
Egypt’s Sisi; Absence of Rule of Law
By: Hassan Kamal On 18 January 2014, the Egyptian constitution has been adapted with public referendum by Egyptian people. This constitution has stipulated many articles that fairly respect human rights and rule of law, however, when actions came to practice,… Read More ›
The Egyptian National Security Violates Freedom of movement in Constitution
By: Hassan Kamal Today, 17 May 2015, Egypt witnesses a new violation of the constitution by the government itself. While I was in my way to Prague, Czech Republic, to attend the conference about ‘ Crisis Management in Politics’ organized… Read More ›
Tell ISIS that no Life after Death
By: Hassan Kamal Nowadays, one of the major threats to the West and the rest of the globe is ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), which was born from an especially brutal al Qaeda faction, by bombing, kidnapping, beheading… Read More ›
Why are we turning to Atheism?
By: Hassan Kamal These days, atheism is becoming more and more a common phenomenon for youth in Egypt. The atheists were interviewed by many TV programmes and Egyptian daily newspapers to show their reasons and thoughts about why they move… Read More ›
On Atheism – عن الإلحاد
ON ATHEISM is a new e-book was written by the Egyptian blogger Hassan Kamal, aims to introduce the idea of atheism, in terms of philosophy, to all new atheists, in particular from youth, around the globe, especially in the Middle East… Read More ›
لماذا الحزب العلمانى المصرى؟
كتب: حسن كمال العلمانية كأسلوب فى التفكير ونظرية فى المعرفة كما صكها الفيلسوف المصرى د. مراد وهبه (1926-؟) وهى “التفكير فى النسبى بما هو نسبى وليس بما هو مطلق”. يترتب على هذا التعريف فصل الدين عن الدولة أى فصل الدين… Read More ›
A Special Report on Atheists in Egypt
The daily Egyptian newspaper name Al-Waten published a special report on Atheists in Egypt to discuss how they live and suffer in Egypt. The report demonstrates many threats to kill the atheists in Egypt and prosecute them in different ways…. Read More ›
Middle East Atheist Channel Defies Taboo
The news was published by Voice of America In Egypt, a deeply religious country in a deeply religious region, atheism is not only taboo, it is dangerous. It is sometimes even criminal to publicly declare nonbelief. Despite the danger,… Read More ›
Toward to Establish Secularist Mainstream in Egypt
By: Hassan Kamal Averroes Forum (a philosophical forum) holds an event on May 16, 2015, in order to establish a secular mainstream in Egypt, to spread secularization and enlightenment in Egypt ant the Arab-Islamic world. The event aims to… Read More ›
New secular party in Egypt
A new political party, the Egyptian Secular Party (ESP), has been proposed to challenge what the founders see as the dominance of religious institutions over the Egyptian state, and to call for the writing of a secular constitution. The… Read More ›
What is Religion?
By: Hassan Kamal These days, the question “what is religion?” is becoming more and more common topic to discuss about it in Egypt, especially after ouster the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mosri, and then calling for a renewal of religious discourse and… Read More ›
A protest to Support Islam Behery – وقفة احتجاجية لدعم إسلام بحيري
By: Hassan Kamal In the wake of the attacks against Islam Behery and shutting down of his program “Ma3a Islam” that has aimed to renew of the religious discourse in Islam, in order to defeat terrorism and make enlightenment,… Read More ›
Does Modernization Accordance with Sharia?
By: Hassan Kamal Many scholars from the West and the Middle East countries claim that the modernization accordance with the Sharia and Islamic tradition. Their viewpoint back to the first half of the 20th century in Egypt that the Muslim… Read More ›
Was Nasser Secular?
By: Hassan Kamal Many Western scholars consider the former president of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser as a secular ruler and describe the nature of Nasser’s regime as a secular state because of his stance on the Muslim Brotherhood after the… Read More ›
Egypt and Sharia: According to the Constitutions
By: Hassan Kamal After the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in July 3, 2013, there has been a lot of discussion about the role of Sharia Law in the new constitution and how can be interpreted it again… Read More ›
Why El-Sisi is not Atatürk?
By: Hassan Kamal In recent times, especially after overthrow the former president of Egypt Mohamad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (one of the most popular Islamic fundamentalism movements on the globe) in July 3, 2013, there has been a lot… Read More ›
Averroes Forum Discusses “The Quartet of Democracy”
By: Hassan Kamal In the wake of the Egyptian revolution there has been a lot of discussion about democracy in Egypt, in particular after removal of the former president Mohamed Morsi from the power. In response to this topic, Averroes… Read More ›
On Religious Authority in Islam
By: Hassan Kamal In modern times, many Muslims claim that there is no religious authority in Islam and Islam has no “clergy” in the Christian sense. There is no concept of a “church” and no sacraments. Consequently there are… Read More ›
Stand With Islam Behery
By: Hassan Kamal Joint Statement Calling for the Support of Islam Behery Dear Colleagues, This is a joint statement from human rights activists worldwide, which want to combat terrorism that based on jihad, calling for the promote of Egyptian Islamic Researcher and… Read More ›
Why Sexual Harassment in Egypt?
By: Hassan Kamal These days, every time you turn on the television or flick through the pages of a newspaper or social media, you learn about the victims of sexual harassment from women in Egypt. But what is the… Read More ›