Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2006
Transcript of a speech presented by William Dalrymple at the American University in Cairo, highlighting his experiences traveling to Christian Holy sites throughout the Middle East, as well as his personal interpretation of political Islām. He includes references to both historical and present day...
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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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In an attempt to put an end to the growing
attacks against Arabs and Muslims
in America, the American Senate agreed on a new law condemning attacks
against American Arabs and Muslims. The law
states that the civil rights of all Americans, including Arab
and Muslim Americans, should be...
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Italy’s Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi stated that he read about Islām and found out that all of what he read was
absurd and
could not be compared to the Western civilization, which he said was superior to Islām. He also
associated between
Islam and those who are anti-globalization and said...
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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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Representatives
of the Islamic community in France filed a lawsuit against a French novelist for
writing a novel that defamed
Islam. The subject of the novel is Islām and sexual tourism in Thailand. It
contained very open attacks against
Islam, Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians.
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001 to Sunday, January 14, 2001
An old man has been killed
and others injured in an
explosion in the Shouhada mosque in Sanaa [Yemen]. Investigations revealed that the bomb
was supposed to
explode when the worshippers came out of the mosque, but it exploded later when a worshiper touched
it. The
reasons behind this massacre...