Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
A quick review of current events suggests that what happened in the United States following the September 11, 2001 attacks will happen again in Europe following the March 11, 2004 train explosions. As Arabs and Muslims we need to make them hear our cry—that we also suffer from terrorism and that...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Islamic Britons expressed their shock yesterday after the sanctity of an Islamic grave was violated in London, an assault believed to have links to last week’s Madrid bombings. Iqbal Sakarany, the secretary general of the Islamic Council, criticized the media for using the term “Muslim terrorists”...
Date of source: Thursday, March 18, 2004
The head of the Catholic Conference of Bishops in Germany, Cardinal Karl Lehmann warned against looking at Muslims in Germany with suspicion and considering them all as suspects after the frightening attacks that took place in Madrid last week. He said in an interview with the Deutsche Welle DW...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Terrorists have changed their strategies after the precautionary measures taken by world countries in airports and on board of planes following the September 11 attacks. Terrorist operations now target trains and train stations, where a massive number of people crowd, especially during rush hour....
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 2004
The horrible terrorist actions carried out by terrorist murderers in Riyadh and Khubar in Saudi Arabia are crimes against Islam and Muslims in the first place, and humanity in general. These criminal actions that were carried out in the name of Islam can be truly described as ‘organized terrorism’...
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 2004
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia saw many violent events and bombings after the Second Gulf War [1991] and Kuwait’s occupation by Iraqi forces. Terrorist acts started in 1995 with a car explosion killing three Americans. 2003 witnessed a development as a
confrontation started between the Jihadi Stream...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 28, 2004
We should diagnose the issue of terrorism through deep analysis. We need to know the conditions that result in terrorism, which will differ from one country to another. We should stop attributing the problem to the religious discourse alone, but we should widen our circle of investigation and look...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The news about arresting terrorist suspects all over Europe and the US drew the attention to what is known as the dormant terrorist cells of al-Qā‘ida. Those cells share common impetuses: reestablishing the Islamic Caliphate, the detestation of the US and its policies towards the Arab world and the...
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2001
Foreign intelligence reports have revealed that Ben Laden has nominated the Egyptian Mohammed Atef, known as Abu Hafs, as his successor in the event of his arrest or death. Arab witnesses backed the report whilst officials from the White House said that arresting Ben Laden, although highly...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 10, 1999
Business executives in Saudi Arabia continue to transfer tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to Osama bin Laden, accused of last year’s U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, USA Today reported Friday.