Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 29, 2003
For the first time since the Synagogue of Prophet Daniel [in Alexandria] was categorized as a historical building, the Jewish community stopped the inspectors of the Authority of Antiquities from going into the synagogue.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 30, 2003
The International Zionist Agency warns the Jews in the world in general, and the Jews in Europe in particular, against having relations with Muslims, even if those Muslims are moderate. The Agency thinks that there is an unbridgeable ideological gap between Jews and Muslims, and that Muslims who...
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 27, 2003
Arguing that music contravenes Islam, a Kuwaiti Islamist MP demanded that music education be banned in all public schools. The Kuwaiti MP proposed substituting Islamic education for music lessons.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 30, 2003
The Kuwaiti National Assembly witnessed a very heated debate over educational strategy and reform of school curricula. The 14-member Islamic parliamentary bloc stressed that it will use its constitutional tools against the Minister of Education in case he was influenced by claims that the current...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 29, 2003
Kuwaiti Minister of Education Dr. Rashid Al-Hamad announced yesterday that Kuwait is upgrading its school curricula in order to omit any texts that encourage religious extremism.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 31, 2003
Last Christmas Eve, Bashir Toma Elias was shot dead in the center of Basra´s market while he was on his way back home to celebrate Christmas with his five children. Elias´ murder revived Christians´ fear of the growth of religious fanaticism in Southern Iraq, which is inhabited by a...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 25, 2003
The Mufti of Egypt, Dr. Ali Goma´a, denied the fatwa attributed to him regarding a woman´s right to receive a payment for serving her husband and children. He said that his words in this respect were distorted and taken out of context.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 31, 2003
The Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ma’moun Al-Hudaiby, urged Christians all over the world to stand up to Western policies in general and American policies in particular along with Muslims.
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 27, 2003
[Al-Ahrar almost certainly took the news from Islam Online. See http://islam-online.net/English/News/2003-12/27/article03.shtml. See this site also for links on this subject]
Shrouded in secrecy and under the guise of humanitarian aid, American missionaries, mainly evangelicals, are pouring into...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 28, 2003
The British paper Daily Telegraph reported that American missionary groups are working secretly to save Iraqis by converting them to Christianity before the American occupation of Iraq ends officially in June 2004. The paper added that groups belonging to the fundamentalist Christian movement in...