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Egyptian Islamist Adel Abdel-Megied Abdel-Bari, who is accused in the case of bombing the two American embassies in East Africa in 1998, collapsed after he had been on a hunger strike for six weeks in Belmarch prison in southern London.
The article is an interview with British columnist and parliament member George Galway. He comments on the anticipated war on Iraq, its consequences and the stand of the United Nations towards it. He also comments on the issue of clashes between civilizations.
An Arab announcer working in an Arabic radio station in Belgium is accused of delivering fanatical Islamic messages via the radio. He was jailed after threatening to kill the inspectors of terrorism combat cell in the Belgian prosecution.
The president of the British Islamic Center requested that the British government ban the showing of a Norwegian commercial for a British airline company. The commercial allegedly distorts the image of Muslims.
The British Charity Committee accuses Abu-Hamza Al-Misri, leader of the Ansar Al-Shari’a [advocates of the Islamic law] group, of turning the mosque where he preaches into a center for extremists. Al-Misri says he will resist plans aiming to dismiss him from being the imam of the mosque.
The war of defamation has been ignited between fundamentalists in London. The battlefield is the Islamic forums on the internet especially between the leader of the organization Ansar Al-Shari’a and an Egyptian fundamentalist who writes under pseudonyms.
The Archbishop of York will lead special prayers in the Anglican Church for the Iraqi people. The Mufti of Turkey issued a fatwa to the effect that soldiers who will die in such a war will not be considered martyrs.
Vice President of the Permanent Committee of the Azhar for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions, Dr. ‘Alī al-Sammān, feels that some key Islamic figures are perhaps oppressed in many Western countries. However, he asserts that the West has every right to protect itself from terrorist attacks.
British church officials have announced an initiative to issue an apology to Muslims for the Iraq war waged by the US-led alliance arguing that the West has committed a ‘litany’ of mistakes in Iraq.
A recently published Egyptian State Information Service report examines attitudes towards and problems faced by Muslims and Arabs in the UK, Germany and other western countries.

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