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Some reports say that European women converting to Islam are outnumbering the men. Some attribute this to the number of European women marrying Muslim men while other reports say the conversion is out of sympathy with Muslims in their post-9/11 ordeal and curiosity to know more about Islam.
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2006
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he personally condemned the cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten. In an interview with the Danish TV2 station, Rasmussen said that he respected religious beliefs and that would prevent him from depicting Muhammad, Jesus or any other religious symbol...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2006
Former imām of Finsbury Park Mosque, north London, Abu Hamza al-Misrī, has denied in court in the U.K. 16 charges including soliciting murder and stirring up racial hatred, arguing that fomenting hatred is a cardinal sin in Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī blames the backwardness of Muslims on three persons, namely "the extremist Indian writer Abu al-‘Ala al-Mawdudī, the illiterate Bedouin Mufti who spearheads the Wahābī call ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Bin Bāz and Mullah Muhammad ‘Umar who applies his fatwas with whips and guns in...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2006
The Brotherhood participation in the democratic process, if genuine, constitutes a qualitative leap that entails the renunciation of violence, refraining from the takfīr [to rule that someone is infidel] ideology and accepting peaceful political activities as a means to reach power.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
After the September 11, 2001 incidents, a fierce war on terror has started and it even grew fiercer with after the Madrid 11, 2004 bombings. Some believed that the terror networks have been diluted, only to be shocked by the July 7, 2005 bombings in the heart of London, which revealed the emergence...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Many Copts have expressed fears that the Muslim Brotherhood’ rise to power will ultimately mould Egypt into a conservative Islamic state, where Copts will be treated as second-class citizens. Fahmī Huwaydī, on the other hand, believes these "Coptic fears” to be groundless, arguing that Copts in...
Date of source: Saturday, November 19, 2005
In a symposium cosponsored by the Kuwaiti Information Office and the newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat, participants from the Arab world as well as the West shared their thoughts and ideas about terrorism and its origins.
Date of source: Sunday, November 20, 2005
Deputy Rector of Cairo University, Dr. Hāmid Tāhir, writes about recent terrorist attacks and about the common interests that should bind all people together, regardless of nationality or religion.
Date of source: Monday, November 14, 2005
The author argues that Egyptians Copts are more important that Afghan Muslims, disputes claims that the Virgin Mary healed a man of a brain tumor and criticizes the pyramidal structure of power in Egypt.