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: Monday, April 4, 2005
Tāriq Ramadān, grandson of late Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Bannā, has urged freezing capital
punishment in Islam like stoning and decapitation.
Ramadān also urged the mobilization of Muslims worldwide to ask
their governments to stop applying the hudoud, alleging the application...
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Gijs de
Vries, the European Union’s anti-terrorist coordinator, called for dissociating Islam from terrorism, an old phenomenon that
had also been witnessed by both Christianity and Judaism in certain stages of their history.
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
The chapters of
insulting Muslim sanctities by Western colonialists are still going on as during the barbaric American attack on the tiny
Iraqi city of Falluja in October and November 2004, the soldiers destroyed most of the city’s mosques and perpetrated crimes
of war and crimes against...
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:
A late bid by the German cultural center in Cairo was
really a model of how to materialize the recommendations involved in this agenda. Four Egyptians and four Germans were
handpicked for an overall dialogue. Religion and its duties, impact and interpretations were the focal point of the meeting...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
By assuming a civil, political role, the [Coptic]
Orthodox Church deviated from its religious mission to adopt the sectarian isolationist ideology of the Umma al-Qibtīya
“Coptic Nation Group” to become a “draft state”[in other words ‘Imāra is accusing the church of being separatist],
following...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Aljazeera satellite news channel
has just started to reap what it had sown. I wonder whether the person who recently blew up a school in Qatar was a
terrorist, a suicide bomber, a fedayee or a resistance element. Aljazeera were supporting terrorists, making them look like
as if they were the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
After months of turning the other
cheek, Vatican officials are lashing out against "The Da Vinci Code," saying Christians should not buy or even read the best
-selling thriller. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said that Dan Brown’s novel was a paragon of "anti-Catholic prejudice," and was
filled with "...
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.