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...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 21, 2003
Last Monday, the activities of the conference “Islam and the West in a Changing World” were concluded in Sudan. The conference aimed at presenting an Islamic view of the relationship with the West under the slogan “Interaction without melting and distinction without introversion." A large number...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 23, 2003
The article is a letter by Dr. Sherif Dous, a Copt. He speaks about the strong relationship between Copts and Muslims in Egypt. In spite of this strong relationship, some periods of Egypt history witnessed frictions, or even conflicts, between Muslims and Copts.