Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2006
In an interview with al-
Ahrām al-‘Arabī, former Danish Minister of Culture Grethe Rostboell speaks out on the
controversial publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and gives her opinion on the concept of freedom of
expression.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2001
The
war in Afghanistan led to a division within an Egyptian family, Some of them live in Cairo and others live in New
Jersey. The family members living in Egypt are against America’s war on Afghanistan and the members living in
America support the war as one of them was working in the WTC and...
Date of source: Sunday, November 4, 2001
The Brotherhood did not take any steps indicating the group’s rejection of the government’s intention to deprive Ayman Al-Zawahry, the leader of the Jihad organization, and Abu Hafs Al-Masri, the leader of the military wing of Al-Qa’ida, of their Egyptian citizenship. Such an attitude can be seen...
Date of source: Friday, November 2, 2001
The Council for American-Islamic
Relations announced that it had received 960 reports of attacks on the rights and freedoms of Muslims in the US
between September 11 and October 22. Officials assured that they intended to publish a full, detailed report as
soon as they had finished counting and...
Date of source: Sunday, October 28, 2001
The United Arab Emirates denied
yesterday that the responsible authorities had been aware that sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi had been prevented from
entering the Emirates. They assured that what had happened was a single mistake and disapproved and felt sorry
about what he said about him not being...
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2001
Abu Dhabi airport authorities prevented Dr.
Youssef Al-Qaradawi from entering the Emirates, after he showed his Qatari identification, which he uses to pass
into the Gulf-Countries. Al-Qaradawi thought this was a direct instruction from Washington.
Date of source: Thursday, October 25, 2001
The people of Quesna
village in Egypt stress that the Taliban Ambassador’s translator in Islamabad was a member of the Egyptian Jihad
organization who was sentenced by an Egyptian court to 15 years imprisonment. In his turn, the Taliban Ambassador
stressed that his translator is an Afghan from...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 24, 2001
The British police detained the Egyptian fundamentalist Yasser Al-Serry, the head of the Islamic Media Observatory based in London. It investigated the activities of his Observatory and accuses him of being involved in the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the head of the Afghan opposition.
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2001
The French authorities detained an Algerian-Frenchman coming back from Afghanistan to France. The man was supposed to give the signal to bomb the American embassy in Paris. He did not hide any information during the police investigations. His confessions gave the French authorities an idea about...
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2001
The fatwa concerning the legal position of Muslim-American military men with regard to participating in the American attacks on Afghanistan was issued before the start of the attacks. However, because it reached American-Muslim military men after the war had started it was wrongly understood to...