A significant article by the WMF group was published in the February 2000 issue of the Egyptian monthly magazine Wighat Nazar (Viewpoints), entitled “A Cultural Civil War: Women’s Issues as Battlefield.” The article analyzed press reports on the commemorative conference held by the Supreme Council for Culture in Cairo (Oct. 1999): “Qasim Amin: A Hundred Years after the Emancipation of Arab Women.” Most of these commentaries were biased and lacked objectivity. The WMF group expressed criticism of the following: (1) the use of women’s issues by competing intellectual currents and opposition parties as a means for exchanging attacks and accusations, or opposing state institutions and belittling their activities; (2) giving vent to more stereotyping of women and sarcastic commentaries over their personalities and their demands; (3) enforcing the extreme polarization between the religious and the secular currents, or between the so-called “backward-looking” vision versus the “progressive and modern” vision.

Through discourse analysis, however, it is proven that such trends are all variations on one theme of contemporary modernist conservatism. The article also discussed other issues like countering claims of economic priorities; who has the right to represent “real women”; and the relationship with the West. These are elements used in the discourse of opposition to any form of women’s/feminist activities.