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At a press conference, preceding the opening of an exhibition of Tutankhamen monuments in Chicago a few days ago, the secretary- general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Zāhī Hawwās, urged wealthy businessman, John Roe, to return a Pharaonic sarcophagus, which Roe keeps in his office...
The author argues that some demands of expatriate Copts are contradictory. While they call for the establishment of a secular state, they call for a percentage quota for Copts in the different institutions of the state, which the author sees as a sectarian approach.
Elizabeth Yell reviews an article, given to AWR by Dr. ‘Alī al- Simmām, head of the Committee of Dialogue and Islamic Relations in the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs, which he found to be highly significant on the changing attitude of the Vatican towards Christians in the Middle East.
The article reads that only a few days after an article was published by the Washington Post criticizing Saudi curricula, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) held a symposium on the issue of the relationship between Islamic textbooks in Saudi Arabia and the war on terror.
During their meeting yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI and British Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed on the need for interfaith and intercultural dialogue to combat terrorism, underscoring the contribution that common values among religions can make to dialogue, particularly with Islam.
The article deals with a protest by Copts in Chicago against what they called persecution of their fellow Copts in Egypt, taking advantage of an exhibition on King Tutankhamen to send a message, as they said, to American politicians.
The author reports insults directed to the Azhar in the Islamic Centre in London and a similar incident in Malaysia.
A recent opinion poll conducted by the Dutch News Agency (ANP) has showed that half of all Dutch people hate Muslims, that 10% of them believe that they are more intelligent than immigrants and that “racial discrimination showed be allowed against immigrants.”
Claims that Pakistani Christian children sold as slaves to fund Islamic militants and that the police have failed to take action, despite two Christian missionaries providing photographic evidence of children being sold.
Canadian police have arrested 17 terror suspects on charges of planning attacks on a number of buildings in Canada. In Britain, anti-terrorist police hunted for a “dirty” chemical device that they say terrorists could use in attack in the United Kingdom. In Washington, the U.S. Department of...

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