Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
Mustafa Abd Al-Latif Darwish’s article on November 1, 2004 about Archpriest Zakaria Butros was all in all a series of excesses. Butros should have respected the decision taken by the Holy Synod to defrock him, especially after his hallucinations that wrong the priestly costumes he is wearing.
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The writer of Sawt Al-Umma article’s on the Archpriest should have asked himself whether the Torah and the Bible have been corrupted before or after Prophet Muhammad. If they were corrupted before Prophet Muhammad, then why did the Qur’an attest them? And if they were corrupted after Prophet...
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
I have been shocked when I read an article in Sawt Al-Umma’s November 1 issue by Mustafa Abd Al-Latif Darwish under the title Archpriest Zakaria Butros’s play. The article seems to be refuting what the Archpriest has said in an interview in the Al-Hayat channel, but actually it is all about...
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The assassination of Theo van Gogh resulted in a debate in Dutch media about the limits of the freedom of expression. Van Gogh himself specialized in offensive language against religion; his words were deliberately calculated to hurt people. Others, found van Gogh had gone too far, misused the...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Paris rejected a Jewish call from a US-based Jewish group for legal action against a leading Islamic organization in France, accused of anti-Semitism and alleged to have contacts with the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas.
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
On the so-called conference on minorities in Egypt, I said I had been shocked to find my name on a list of speakers on that gathering without even being invited or asked for permission.That recent item spurred me to have a serious pause on the grounds that the Copts of Egypt are not considered a...
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The British body responsible for prisons said it would soon build a mosque with a minaret and a dome inside the heavily-guarded Belmarsh prison in southwestern London, which houses a number of fundamentalist leaders. The step is meant to offer the chance for Muslim prisoners to observe their...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
France gives full freedom to its citizens to believe in whatever they want. Thousands of French chose Islam and no one has ever asked them why.
The official number of French Muslims is 50,000 but the unofficial could be double this figure, considering that those unofficially announced Muslims did...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
The filmmaker of a film that criticizes violence against women in Islamic societies was shot dead by a 26-year-old Muslim man who is a dual national of Morocco and Holland. Theo Van Gogh has raised much controversy with his articles and films that express his controversial opinions about Islam...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
The Dutch government declared that it has taken new measures in its campaign to counter the threats of terrorism and extremist groups that call for “armed jihad.” These measures came after the escalation of extreme-right voices calling on the government to take steps of this kind especially in the...