Date of source: Saturday, June 8, 2013
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanded that the French government not to deport an Egyptian Christian because he fled to France to escape alleged repression. European judges in Strasbourg on Thursday (June 6) considered that his expulsion is a violation of Article III of the European...
Date of source: Thursday, November 5, 2009
The European Court of Human Rights has banned crucifixes in Italian schools.
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2008
The controversial statements of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams sparked contradictory reactions. While Western and Christian observers attacked him, Muslim thinkers and intellectuals hailed him as a wise just clergyman. The Egyptian media reacted more to the angry reactions than to the...
Date of source: Friday, February 8, 2008
Despite having completed their prison sentence, ‘Abbūd and Tāriq al-Zumur are still in jail. Their family denounced the "unfair" detention and revealed their intention to take their case to the international courts.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
The author discusses the different challenges Turkey is facing with its pursuit of European membership.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
Analysis of the Denmark cartoons issue by Dr. Hasan Muhammad Wajīh, expert of linguistics of negotiation and cross-cultural communication at the Azhar University and moderator of the April 15, 2006 discussion at El-Sawy Culture Wheel on ‘Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Turkey for violating article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, after receiving complaints from the owner and editor-in-chief of a monthly publication [Reviewer: no name given] about the government’s restrictions...
Date of source: Friday, December 12, 2003
The writer presents an overview toof the status of Muslims in France and its governmental leadership in the light of the new call for issuing a law that eliminates wearing the hijab and other religious forms and manifestations in schools and public corporations.
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 2004
French Minister of Education Francois Fillon warned against any violation of the laws of the French Republic saying that any violation will be met with extreme firmness.
The French Minister made this statement in response to a statement of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, which...
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2005
After the slap of the Ministry of Interior rejecting the request of the Administrative Court to annul the release of Tariq al-Zumur, one of the leaders of Jihad, the defense of cAbboud and Tariq al-Zumur drops another bomb by bringing suit against the Ministry for violating his clients’ political...