Date of source: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The niqāb is stirring controversy in different parts of the World. An Egyptian university professor is to be sued for criticizing it; the Egyptian muftī advises that women don’t wear it and students wearing it will be barred from accessing a university hostel. In Western countries it is regarded as...
Date of source: Monday, October 23, 2006
A U.S. authority
denies entry of a Muslim scholar to the U.S., detains and then deports him to an
unknown destination.
Date of source: Sunday, October 22, 2006
The last two years witnessed increasing Western attacks on Islam. Muslim reactions, however, in many cases Muslims violent reactions, enforced the negative image of Islam. Nevertheless, some Muslim intellectuals called for peaceful reactions through changing the violent image of Islam by showing...
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
The author of the article raises suspicions about the seriousness
of the suspected
plot to explode airplanes and implies that the arrest of Muslim suspects in Britain was
planned by the U.S.
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
The review takes up the issue of the niqāb as Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, called on Muslim women in Britain to take off their veils in workplaces, while in Egypt, the President of Hilwān University made a decision to prohibit all niqāb-wearing students from entering the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 15, 2006
Nahlah al-Shahhāl discusses a new law filed in America that excludes
foreigners from
the country’s laws.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
On
Friday, Danish television aired an amateur video showing young members of the anti-immigrant Danish
People’s
Party taking part in a competition to draw cartoons ridiculing the prophet, one year after
the publication
of the "offensive" cartoons by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten. In an...
Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
The government was
accused of sidelining the church and giving
a preferential treatment to Britain’s Muslim community, while Jack
Straw’s statement still sparks
controversy in the British community.
Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
Jack Straw’s statement revealed deep divisions within Tony Blair’s government and inside British community
Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2006
Jack Straw’s statement on veil and niqāb provoked anger and indignation from the Islamic community in Liverpool who accused him of being responsible for an attack in which a woman’s niqāb was torn from her face.