Date of source: Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Bishop Bīshūy aims to excommunicate Coptic intellectual Kamāl
Zākhir, accusing him of being against the church. Bishop Bīshūy calls on Copts to boycott the
expected conference about the laymen’s view of the church’s problems.
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2006
Dr. Elana Gomel, a Russian Jewish
immigrant to Israel, is the author of the 175-page book ‘You and Us.’ She says Russian Jews, whose number have
exceeded one-sixth of the Israeli population, have merged quite well into Israeli society but did not find the
promised land they sought.
Date of source: Friday, October 27, 2006
After the strong controversy
surrounding the offensive Danish cartoons, a Danish court declares the responsible paper innocent, which aroused
the anger of Islamic organizations in Denmark.
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2006
The author uses two images, that of the ostrich and the owl, to explore possible immigration scenarios in Europe. She argues that only “a vision steeped in individual rights, the rule of law and the equality of men and women can help guide Europe out of [its current immigration quagmire].”
Date of source: Saturday, October 28, 2006
The President of an American Islamic association
denounces a recent al-Qā‘īdah statement saying that Islamic terrorist actions are
an insult to Muslims and Islām.
Date of source: Friday, October 27, 2006
Declarations from the chairman of the European Commission about Islām and Muslims’ way of dressing.
Date of source: Monday, October 30, 2006
The author discusses the way late Egyptian Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfūz dealt with the
issue of religious extremism and terrorism in his novels, namely those of the 1980s, in which he tried to detect
reasons for the spread of fanaticism in Egyptian society.
Date of source: Friday, October 27, 2006
The speech of Australia’s Muftī, Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn al- Hilālī, during the holy month of Ramaḍān in which he described women who do not wear the veil as ’uncovered meat’ that attracts sexual predators caused heated controversy around Australia yesterday.
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2006
The author records the relations between Arab Muslims and the West, noting that many Westerners believe
that all Muslims are terrorists and that Islām is a religion of violence and terror.
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2006
In his article, Majdī Khalīl stresses the Arab and Islamic world’s need of the West. He questions contemporary Islam and Muslims in the light of some of the world’s thinkers. Khalīl highlights the compelling need for the Arabic and Islamic countries to cooperate with the different West to lead to...