Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2001
The author believes that Muslim scholars, when commenting on the attacks in America and Islam’s relationship to it, talk about politics instead of talking about religion. Everything politicians wanted was said by religious scholars. In the end, religion will be troubled by the description that it...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2001
The Arabic attitude towards the expected American attacks against Afghanistan revolves around the official Egyptian stance that refuses to join the American crusade. Egypt’s clinging to this stance will help greatly in making the Arabic countries adopt the same attitude. At the same time, all the...
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2001
The author pointed out the many moral principles of Islam, stressing that what is said in the Western media about Islam being a religion that encourages aggression, extremism, fanaticism, killing and terrorism is a baseless calumny. He added that the recent attacks in America are a hateful crime...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Experts on Islam believe that if the U.S. response to terrorist attacks is perceived in Islamic countries as a war against their religion, support could unravel the international coalition needed to wage a successful war on terrorism. An internationally recognized scholar of Islam and a law...
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman was interviewed by Egyptian TV to speak about the role of Western media in reporting on the attack in America. The questions directed at him made it obvious that there is a deep mistrust of Western reporting about the Arab and Islamic world. The interviewer believed that...
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2001
The image of Islam in French schoolbooks is very negative. The information the books cite is based on inaccurate translations from the Qur’an and on books biased against Islam. They introduce a false picture of jihad and marriage in Islam and tell incorrect stories about the Black Stone.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
The news of the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the talk of the day in Egypt. I have not interviewed any people but just took notes when people were speaking about the attacks. These notes are given here.
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006
Three Australian Muslims were brought to court yesterday on charges of planning a terrorist attack.
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006
A Spanish court has sentenced Algerian Ahmad Ibrāhīm to 10 years in prison on charges of publishing fatwas encouraging terrorism on an Internet website he created to disseminate extremist Islamic views.
Date of source: Saturday, April 1, 2006
A recent report prepared by chief of the Dutch Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), Sybrand van Hulst on militant jihād in the Netherlands has warned against the growing home-grown terrorism threat.