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UN General Secretary Dr. Buṭrus Buṭrus Ghālī visits Strasbourg asking for European involvement
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Background: Dr. Buṭrus Buṭrus Ghālī (14.11.1922 – 16.2.2016) was the 6th General-Secretary of the United Nations (from January 1992 to December 1996), and dealt with crises such as the Rwandan Genocide and the divide of Yugoslavia. Dr. Ghālī visited Strasbourg, France at a conference to discuss the...
31. The Islam of France…renewing religious discourse the French way
Date of source: Tuesday, December 2, 2003
For the last few months, France has been witnessing a cultural and ideological conflict that arises from what we may call renewing the religious discourse. The conflict started when the former French Minister of Interior invented the term “the Islam of France,” which developed to become an...
17. Sudanese refugee crisis ends with 25 dead in stampede, 76 police injured and a move to a special camp
Date of source: Friday, December 30, 2005
After negotiations failed to end a three month long sit in being staged by Sudanese refugees in a public square in central Cairo, security forces took measures to end the protest, resulting in a stampede, which killed 25 Sudanese. 76 Egyptian policemen were also injured after demonstrators hurled...
33. Converted Frenchwomen Turn to Jihad
Date of source: Sunday, October 16, 2005
An article claiming that French women, who have converted to Islam, are being recruited for Jihād. In an interview, Pope Shenouda III answers questions about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s stance towards expatriate Copts and the conference they were to hold to discuss persecution of Copts in Egypt....
46. Muslim girls choose their future over challenging the law banning the hijab with the beginning of the school year in France.
Date of source: Friday, September 3, 2004
Pupils went back to school in France yesterday, on the first day of implementation of the new law banning obvious religious symbols – among them the hijab – from state schools. This happened without serious incident after the story of the two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq grabbed the nation’...
42. French Muslims establish a center to track assaults against them
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 2004
A group of scholars and intellectuals traveled last week to Europe in order to “improve the image of Islam and Muslims” in Western public opinion. The program aims at eliminating mistaken ideas about Islam. This coincided with an agreement taken by a number of Muslim businessmen in Canada and the U...
29. Five Members of Parliament lead a campaign to call for respecting women’s freedom to wear the hijab
Date of source: Friday, March 11, 2005
Five European Members of Parliament launched a campaign to collect their counterparts’ signatures to call upon European countries to respect personal freedom to wear the hijāb [veil covering a woman’s hair], the Sikh’s turban, the cross, as well as the Jewish skullcaps.
33. A girl shaved her hair off in protest at the ban on hijab in France
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
A Muslim girl has managed to beat the ban on hijab [veil covering a woman’s hair] in French schools. The girl took off her hijab in front of the principal who was surprised to find that she shaved off her hair. Cennet Doganay was banned from classes for wearing hijab after a law preventing school...
12. The search for the terrorists who were recruited in Britain and trained in America,
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The British authorities discovered that a security company called Sakina was recruiting British Muslim youth and sending them to Chechnya and Afghanistan to participate in Jihad against the Christian West. Therefore they closed the company and arrested its members. The members of Sakina are...
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