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The British Home
Secretary declared
that the British government intends to enforce certain procedures to protect Muslims and to face
terrorism
in all its forms. He added that the government was examining draft laws stating that spreading racial
hostility is considered to be a criminal act.
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The Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told the Editor-in-Chief of Asharq al-Awsat
that he was not that stupid to attack
Islam and the Islamic civilization and that Islām was a great
religion. Still, many articles in this week’s papers
criticized his statements about the Western...
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Former British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared that
the attacks in America were not condemned strongly enough by British
Muslims. She added that the people who
attacked the two towers of the WTC were Muslims and that Muslims should
prove that this terrorism was not
Islamic. British...
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Many writers tackled the issue of Islām
and terrorism in this week’s papers.
Mustafa Mahmoud commented on the West’s attitude towards the ritual Islām
and the political Islām. The
Christian writer Fikry Makram Ebeid gave a list of most of the non-Muslim terrorist
groups and concluded
that...
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An
Egyptian Copt, who had lived in
America for 22 years, was killed in his shop in Los Angeles, at the hands of three
Americans. His death is
believed to be part of the Americans’ hatred campaign against Arabs and Muslims, which
started after the
attacks in America. al-Usboa and al-Arabi...
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The
Sheikh of the Azhar declared that any coalition
with the USA is H...
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The
papers of this week are still full of news about the violence practiced
against Arabs and Muslims in America,
Europe and Australia after the attacks in America. According to many
writers, the reasons for this growing anti-
Arab and anti-Muslim campaign are to be found in the deformed
image...
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The judges of the State Council supported the ruling that
the Administrative Judiciary Court handed down in the
case of al-Nabaa. It also rejected the appeal Mamdouh
Mahran, the Editor-in-chief of the paper, lodged against the
head of the Supreme Press Council.
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
Nairouz
[Coptic new years’ day]
is originally a Persian word that means the new day. The Pharaohs were the first
ones to celebrate the Nayrūz. As
a Christian feast, it continued to be celebrated during the Islamic rule
of Egypt and Muslim rulers gave it special
attention.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
The court’s decision that cancelled the
celebration of the mulid of Abū Hasera, and annulled a decree from the
Minister of Culture, which
considered the tomb of Abū Hasera to be one of the Egyptian Coptic and Islamic monuments
may be appealed
against by legal experts from the Supreme Council...