Date of source: Wednesday, November 26, 2003
For the past ten days, Egyptian news media have been circulating wild and unfounded stories aimed to discredit the newly reopened Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Al-Usbua newspaper devoted three pages to attacks on the "Zionist-American settlement in Muqattam" and claims that Dr. Saad...
Date of source: Thursday, October 23, 2003
The tragedy of Salman Rushdi´s book "Satanic Verses,” and the ensuing fatwa to kill Rushdi, has reoccurred in Canada. A young Muslim author, Irshad Mangi, has written a book entitled "The Trouble with Islam." Mangi criticizes Qur´anic verses severely, isolates them from their context, and...
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Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have made a short visit to Egypt, but controversy has surrounded the decision to grant the Prince an honorary doctorate from the Azhar University.
Date of source: Friday, March 24, 2006
Dr. Zaynab Muhammad Ra’fat writes that amid the campaign against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad by some Western figures, a number of distinguished Western scholars and historians have shown great respect for the prophet.
Date of source: Friday, February 28, 2003
Suggestions for what Muslims should do concerning the fact that the West perceives Islam as its enemy because it rejects secularism and Western modernism.
Date of source: Friday, October 24, 2003
The school of Political and Economic Sciences at Cairo University held a seminar under the title “Paths and Experiences in Inter-Civilizational Dialogue.” Participants stressed that modern Middle East scholars try to purposefully defame the image of Islam and spread wrong information about it in...
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2003
The Indian police arrested ten Muslim activists in New Delhi, where they were trying to stop a movie theater from showing an Indian film which they believe insults Islam. It shows some Muslim leaders trying to convert a number of people to Islam by force.
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar denies that Qur’anic Jew-related verses have been omitted from the educational curricula of the Azhar. He stresses that developing the Azhar curricula has nothing to do with the subjects related to legal sciences and that it is a change in the form and way of teaching and...
Date of source: Thursday, August 18, 2005
The death of the well-known Muslim dā‘iya [preacher], Ahmad Dydāt, is a great loss to the Umma [Islamic Nation].
Date of source: Monday, July 11, 2005
The London blasts of opened the eyes of observers on the special contradicting relations between the UK and the extremist fundamentalist organizations operating on its lands.