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American people think of Islam as a religion of terrorism and they accuse all Muslims of a crime committed only by a few terrorists. This is how they justify collective punishment, including declaring war on all Muslims and putting them under strict surveillances.
The war of defamation has been ignited between fundamentalists in London. The battlefield is the Islamic forums on the internet especially between the leader of the organization Ansar Al-Shari’a and an Egyptian fundamentalist who writes under pseudonyms.
Egyptian Muslim thinker, Dr. ‘Abd al-Sabour Shahīn believes western countries are willfully attacking Islam. He feels the confrontation will not abate, but grow more fierce.
Vice President of the Permanent Committee of the Azhar for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions, Dr. ‘Alī al-Sammān, feels that some key Islamic figures are perhaps oppressed in many Western countries. However, he asserts that the West has every right to protect itself from terrorist attacks.
In the wake of July 7 blasts, the British government has published a list of practices it considers ‘unacceptable’ within the United Kingdom.
A recently published Egyptian State Information Service report examines attitudes towards and problems faced by Muslims and Arabs in the UK, Germany and other western countries.
Statistics from Britain’s last census show that of the 1.1 million people living in the U.K., but born abroad, over 600,000 originate from Islamic countries.
In an interview with al-Ahrām, Dr. Khālid Abu al-Fadl, President George Bush’s appointee to the Commission on International Religious Freedom, gave his opinions on religious democracy, the secularization of religion and Islamic preaching.
Amidst a wave of racially-motivated attacks against Muslims in the wake of the London bombings, Dr. Zakī Badawī, principal of the Muslim College in London has advised Muslim women to stop wearing the hijāb.
A recent poll in Britain has shown that over two thirds of the Muslim students in the country believe that British foreign is to blame for the July terrorist attacks.

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