Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
Sources close to the
defense of Egyptian fundamentalist Abu Hamza al-Masrī, who is detained in Britain on charges of 14 accounts within the
anti-terror law, revealed a plan by his lawyer to subpoena a former Jewish rabbi who had converted to Islam for testimony,
based on the texts taken from the...
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
Dutch
authorities deported a Turkish Islamic education teacher branded by the prosecutors as dangerous to the national security.
The authorities reported that the teacher gave lessons that incited hatred in a mosque in Rotterdam.
Date of source: Friday, April 8, 2005
Grand
Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, referred a controversial fatwa to the Islamic Research
Institute. This took place after Islamic activist Tāriq Ramadān, (the grandson of Shaykh Hasan al-Bannā, the
founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group), called for the cessation of...
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Berlin’s supreme court
upheld a ruling to have the imam of a mosque in the German capital banished on charges of “inciting violence and undermining
social peace.”
Turkish Muslim leader Yacub Tadshi, 59, has reportedly asked for God’s protection for suicide bombers in
Israel and Iraq during a...
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
The most prominent Islamic
organization in France signed yesterday, in the presence of the French Minister of the Interior, an agreement to establish an
association for the Islamic activities in France that aims at raising funds to build mosques.
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
The Union of
Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) held its 22nd conference, March 25-28, at Le Bourget, under the title ‘For a special
Islam of France,’ a motto held by many French Islamic Organizations to stand the previously established idea ‘Islam in
France.’
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
The ‘clash
of civilizations’ and ‘inter-civilization dialogue’ are two names for the successive stages of the Western campaign against
Islam and Muslims, lately escalated by the United States in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Thee Western
attitude towards Islam has restricted Muslims...
Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2005
The
Federation of French Muslims, the largest Muslim organization in France, called on the French authorities to reconsider the
ban imposed on wearing the hijāb at schools and to recognize Muslim holidays.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Arsonists attacked Badr Islamic School Sunday, March 27 in the central town of Uden with Molotov
cocktails, causing light damages to the Muslim school, Dutch police sources said.
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
Today Turkey is attempting to join the European Union and become the link between the Christian West and the Muslim East, but without wars or armies this time. Will the Europeans give a chance for the two cultures to be joined?