Date of source: Sunday, October 22, 2006
Bishop Bula of Tantā asserted in a national unity meeting held in Mār Mina monastery
that Maximus is an American-made priest. He indicated that Maximus’ split was a step taken by the United
States to
infiltrate the church, because it considers the later an obstacle to normalization between Egypt...
Date of source: Monday, October 23, 2006
Leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland seeks apology from
Muslims for the
September 11 attacks and London bombings in return for the pope’s apology for his offence to
Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, October 21, 2006
British official document issued by the Department for Education urging university
lecturers and staff to report on Muslim students.
Date of source: Thursday, October 19, 2006
Lynn Stewart, the American lawyer
representing Shaykh ‘Umar ‘Abd al-
Rahmān, currently jailed in the U.S. on
terror charges, received 28 months in jail for aiding terrorists.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
A school
textbook about Islam is
taught in Spanish schools as part of a project for discovering Islam in Europe.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
A Christian missionary converted to Islam after reading the Qur’ān
with the intention to find
mistakes that could help him to invite Muslims to convert to Christianity. He wrote an
important book on the
issue.
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: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
A research team from Georgetown University in the United
States has published
a new encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān in five volumes. The encyclopaedia permits
researchers of
Islamic studies to figure out concepts, places names and personalities mentioned in the Holy
Qur’
an.
Date of source: Sunday, October 22, 2006
Majdī Khalīl mentions some of the situations where Muslims have attacked Christians, Jews and the West and questions who should apology to whom over such incidents.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The New York Times reported that Iraqi Christians are escaping the increasing
violence in Iraq. A clergyman was kidnapped and killed in response to the pope’s declarations against
Islam.