Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
This review discusses political responses to Fārūq Husnī’s controversial statements on the Ḥijāb.
Date of source: Sunday, November 26, 2006
The article addresses freedom of
expression and press freedom in Yemeni
law and internal security.
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The Swedish authorities handed
over to Egypt Ahmed Hussein Egiza, the leader of the
Tala’a al-Fath...
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The Egyptian authorities detained 22 Brotherhood members. At the
same time America
included the group in its lists of terrorist groups. The inclusion of the Brotherhood came after
the
American authorities asked Italy to detain the president of al-Taqwa Bank, which was founded by some...
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2001 to Monday, November 12, 2001
The head of the
Ansar
Al-Sharī‘a organization in London stressed that Iran handed Rifa’i Taha, the head of the military wing of
the Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīyah over to Syria and they then handed him over to Egypt. Still, fundamentalist
sources in
Egypt did not confirm the news. From another...
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The British Home
Secretary declared
that the British government intends to enforce certain procedures to protect Muslims and to face
terrorism
in all its forms. He added that the government was examining draft laws stating that spreading racial
hostility is considered to be a criminal act.
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The Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told the Editor-in-Chief of Asharq al-Awsat
that he was not that stupid to attack
Islam and the Islamic civilization and that Islām was a great
religion. Still, many articles in this week’s papers
criticized his statements about the Western...
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Former British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared that
the attacks in America were not condemned strongly enough by British
Muslims. She added that the people who
attacked the two towers of the WTC were Muslims and that Muslims should
prove that this terrorism was not
Islamic. British...
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Many writers tackled the issue of Islām
and terrorism in this week’s papers.
Mustafa Mahmoud commented on the West’s attitude towards the ritual Islām
and the political Islām. The
Christian writer Fikry Makram Ebeid gave a list of most of the non-Muslim terrorist
groups and concluded
that...
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In an attempt to put an end to the growing
attacks against Arabs and Muslims
in America, the American Senate agreed on a new law condemning attacks
against American Arabs and Muslims. The law
states that the civil rights of all Americans, including Arab
and Muslim Americans, should be...