Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
Sources close to the
defense of Egyptian fundamentalist Abu Hamza al-Masrī, who is detained in Britain on charges of 14 accounts within the
anti-terror law, revealed a plan by his lawyer to subpoena a former Jewish rabbi who had converted to Islam for testimony,
based on the texts taken from the...
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
Dutch
authorities deported a Turkish Islamic education teacher branded by the prosecutors as dangerous to the national security.
The authorities reported that the teacher gave lessons that incited hatred in a mosque in Rotterdam.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union (EU) studied a paper discussing ways to enter into dialogue with Islamist opposition groups in the Middle East region that were described as “moderate."
Date of source: Saturday, April 16, 2005
One of the wrong concepts that marred the relationship between the Islamic and Western worlds is its depiction as one of a ceaseless series of wars and conflicts; some Muslim and Western theoreticians cite the Crusades in this regard.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 13, 2005
A Muslim
intellectual said that the provisions of Islam regulating the relationship between Muslims and the kitabīs [People of
the Book] should not function as a basis to rule that those kitabīs are disbelievers.
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
In
the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack on the United States, Saudi Arabia was violently attacked in the US mass
media, presuming some relationship between terrorism, Islam and Saudi Arabia.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Three journalists were sentenced to three years in prison and fined with 10,000 L.E each, for publishing a report in al
-Masrī al-Yawm stating that the Minister of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities was officially put on non-active,
following official inspection of his office.
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Muhammad Ra’fat
‘Uthmān, the rapporteur of the fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] Research Committee at the Islamic Research Academy, issued a
fatwa rendering halāl [permissible] the use of genetic engineering technologies to determine the sex of the fetus.
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
An Wan Mat [An Wan Min
Wan Mat], a Malaysian university professor, donated over $30,000 to an extremist group to finance a terror attack in
Indonesia.
What is the extent of the influence of terrorism if it now involves university professors that finance
destructive operations targeting a...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Twenty four educational establishments in Yemen would face closure in accordance with the Cabinet’s decision to close all religious schools that do not work under government supervision.