Date of source: Saturday, September 29, 2001 to Friday, October 5, 2001
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Taliban is challenging the greatest power in the world. Is it imaginable that the helpless Afghans, without food, clothes and medicines, will be transformed into powerful fighters? He is doing wrong to the Jihad, to Islam and the Muslims by dragging them...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2001
The author believes that Muslim scholars, when commenting on the attacks in America and Islam’s relationship to it, talk about politics instead of talking about religion. Everything politicians wanted was said by religious scholars. In the end, religion will be troubled by the description that it...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2001
Many fatwas were issued by Muslim scholars from different Islamic countries concerning the expected American attacks against Afghanistan. They were all to the effect that any cooperation between an Islamic country and the USA to attack Afghanistan or any other Arabic or Islamic country, with the...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradwi, the head of the European Fatwa Council, said that the Islamic Research Center did not acknowledge him. But the former rector of the Azhar, Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi and Dr. Mustafa Al-Shoka’a denied this and stressed that Al-Qaradawi is a great scholar and that there was no...
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001 to Friday, September 28, 2001
The Egyptian embassy estimated that only four Egyptian people had been killed in the attack on the WTC. However, community representatives said there were more than one hundred. There were 350 assaults during the week following the attacks including a rape. The number of business marriages, aimed...
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman was interviewed by Egyptian TV to speak about the role of Western media in reporting on the attack in America. The questions directed at him made it obvious that there is a deep mistrust of Western reporting about the Arab and Islamic world. The interviewer believed that...
Date of source: Friday, March 31, 2006
Some Muslim scholars suspect the real aims of the religious satellites. They reject the extremist approach of the channels, believing that they have political purposes.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Dr. al-Rakhāwī thinks that the best way to support national unity in Egypt is through implanting the principle of justice and acceptance of the other in youth.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2006
The Egyptian church is refusing a court ruling allowing a Christian, who converted to Islam, to have custody of his children in favor of their Christian mother, appealing to top Muslim clerics to intervene.
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006
A Spanish court has sentenced Algerian Ahmad Ibrāhīm to 10 years in prison on charges of publishing fatwas encouraging terrorism on an Internet website he created to disseminate extremist Islamic views.