Date of source: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 to Tuesday, February 3, 2004
These are titles of articles published in Arabic press concerning the controversial issue of banning the Ḥijāb in French schools and public institutions.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 to Tuesday, January 27, 2004
In comparison to the previous weeks, few writers still pay attention to the issue of eliminating wearing the Ḥijāb in French schools and public institutions. Here you can find the titles of articles that occupied the Arabic press concerning the controversial issue of Ḥijāb in France.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 14, 2004
The issue of banning the Ḥijāb as well as other religious symbols at French schools and public institutions are still occupying the Arabic press. The article gives a list of the articles published on this subject.
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The recent statement by the Shaykh of Azhar Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi in which he said that the French government has the right to impose a ban on the H...
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Egyptian newspapers gave considerable space to the issue of the expected banning of the Islamic veil in France. Discussions of the issue reached their peak last Wednesday, December 17, when President Jacques Chirac called for a new law banning the wearing of head scarves for Muslim girls, of...
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More than twenty-five articles in the Arabic newspapers are dedicated to the issue of eliminating religious signs in French schools and its relationship to secularism. President Jacques Chirac?s speech on this issue has provoked contradictory reactions, not only inside the French community,...
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British authorities deposed Egyptian fundamentalist Abū Hamza al-Masri from being the Imām of Finsbury Park
Mosque because he used his position to give political statements. The ?Sun? paper reported the news of his deposition
and asked its readers to call him on his cellular phone and ask him to...
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Scotland Yard raided the mosque where Egyptian fundamentalist Abū Hamza al-Masri preaches, after
receiving information from the French intelligence service about it. British officials stressed that such measures are
not against Islām. al-Masri led the Friday prayers in the street for two...
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Students at the University of North Carolina are
required to read Michael Seller?s "Approaching the Qur?an: The Early Revelations," for their summer reading program.
Some conservative Christian organizations brought an action against the university in an attempt to prevent teaching
the book....
Date of source: Friday, December 29, 2006
The bishop of Cordoba turns down Spain’s Muslim community’s request to share prayers with Catholics in a cathedral that was once a mosque. The bishop expressed his support for dialogue with other religions but "with keeping religious identity."