Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2001
The Taliban made the halting of American military threats a condition for releasing the eight aid workers accused of carrying out Christian missionary activities in Afghanistan. According to the Afghan Islamic News Agency, the Taliban would be ready to take any procedures regarding the release of...
Date of source: Monday, October 8, 2001
The brutality of the attacks of September 11 made Europe and America disclose their true feelings against Arabs and Muslims, who were accused right away after the attacks. These real feelings show the West, which claims to be democratic and considerate about human rights is not. The whole issue is...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 6, 2001
[The RNSAW received this text from Dr. Abu Zayd for placement in the RNSAW. The text was first presented during a conference in June in Berlin, Germany]
Since the occupation of Egypt by Bonaparte in 1798 Muslims have had to address the issue of secularization. Some Muslim thinkers believe Islam...
Date of source: Saturday, September 29, 2001 to Friday, October 5, 2001
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Taliban is challenging the greatest power in the world. Is it imaginable that the helpless Afghans, without food, clothes and medicines, will be transformed into powerful fighters? He is doing wrong to the Jihad, to Islam and the Muslims by dragging them...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2001
The article gives information about the geography and demography of Afghanistan and its economic indicators. This is in addition to a historical background that has to do with the Soviet occupation, the civil war and the Taliban government.
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
Rev. Ikram Lama’i believes that the dilemma the USA is going through has four angles: historical, linguistic, civilizational and theological. He expressed the opinion that for America to get itself out of all these dilemmas, it should reconsider its actions and go back to the real principles of the...
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2001
[This letter was mailed to us by father Dr. Christiaan van Nispen s.j.]
Although there were people rejoicing throughout the Third World over the attacks in America, only Palestinians were pictured celebrating by the Western media. One of the numerous Western cameras that fill Israel will always...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 19, 2001
The author is of the opinion that the reasons for the assaults on Muslims and Arabs after the attacks in the USA are to be found in the inability of Americans, whose views seem to be deeply effected by the American media, which tends to superficialize matters and look for excitement, to face the...