Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
During his discussions with congressmen, Moussa conceded that there were "incidents here and there [of religious discrimination] which should not have taken place." But he also emphasized that these were "individual occurrences which could happen in any country and society." In the same breath, he...
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seeking broad support for a peace accord with rebels to try to end seven years of violence. He will organize a referendum on the deal in July and has pledged to quit if the bill does not survive the plebiscite, well-placed sources told Algeria’s daily La...
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Delegations representing 75 Islamic countries and six international Islamic organizations passed recommendations urging greater inter-Islamic cooperation at the conclusion of a four-day conference last Friday [June 25, 1999].
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The US has officially charged Ayman El-Zawahri, leader of the underground Jihad group, and his aide, Khaled El-Fawwaz, with involvement in the twin bombings of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last August. El-Zawahri is believed to reside in Afghanistan while El-Fawwaz is under arrest in...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The Supreme Military Court wrote the final chapter last Thursday in a mysterious saga involving suspected members of the country’s largest militant organization, Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya. Twenty-one defendants had been charged with planning to revive the group’s activities in the Mediterranean city of...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
In a fresh development in the continuing battle of the Front of Al-Azhar scholars, a report by the State Commissioners Authority has come out in favor of its dissolution, which was decided last year by Cairo Governor Abdel-Rehim Shehata. The Authority will submit its report to the Supreme...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
Delegations from 75 Islamic countries and six international Islamic countries and six international Islamic organizations participating in the 11th Cairo International Islamic Conference will tomorrow declare the recommendations of their conference.
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
The campaign for the new National Assembly elections in Kuwait got off to a dramatic start. The government ordered a crackdown on unlicensed Islamic charities which it accused of funneling funds collected for Kosovo refugees into electioneering. It then turned on the tribal groups who were...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Mahmoud Sayed Gaballah, an Egyptian militant Islamist suspect confined in a
Toronto prison, spurned a Canadian court offer, made last Thursday, to be handed
over to a third country, fearing this could lead to his extradition to Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
"The West, its politicians and missionaries regard the Islamic world as one entity and, in dealing with Muslims, do not forget that they make up one social unit. But in the meantime, the West does not want us to feel united." Thus wrote Islamic scholar Tarek El-Bishri in the introduction to Ummati...