Cairo, 17 Oct (AKI) - The row over the wearing of the niqab, the Islamic veil showing eyes only, recently banned in the female dormitories at Cairo University on security grounds, shows no signs of abating. Street protests, debates in local newspapers and on television, added to the complainy of a well known Islamic preacher have further fueled the controversy.
The church bells of St Samaan al-Kharraz, St Simon the Tanner’s monastery in Muqqattam hill overlooking Cairo chimed joyfully in the first hours of last Wednesday to herald the release of the seven Copts who had been detained by the State Security Investigation (SSI) apparatus since 30 September.
طالعتنا جريدة الوفد في عددها الأسبوعي 1178 يوم الخميس 28 سبتمبر 2006 بحوار مطول أجراه الأستاذ عماد الغزالي مع الدكتور محمد سليم العوا وقد طغت تصريحات بابا الفاتيكان بنديكتوس السادس عشر عن الإسلام على الحوار فوصف العوا البابا بأنه رجل مجرم ودعا تركيا إلى عدم استقباله كذلك تمنى الدكتور ألا يذهب البابا لتركيا خشية أن يحدث ما لا تحمد عقباه
في يوم الأربعاء الموافق للحادي عشر من الشهر الجاري، كنت ضمن مجموعة من الزملاء الكتاب والصحفيين العاملين في الصحف المحلية في حلقة حوار مستديرة مع الدكتور محمد بشار عرفات. و الأخير لمن لا يعرفه أمريكي من أصل عربي و يمثل "مؤسسة التعاون بين الحضارات"، وهي إحدى المؤسسات الأمريكية الخاصة غير الحكومية.
In years past, the price of refusing Islam—for Copts in Egypt, anyway—included either paying the Jizia (Humiliation Tax), or dying by the sword. And, in the interest of furthering the new “Official Language of Islam,” Arabic, Copts were forced to learn this new tongue—unless they felt like having theirs ripped out.
Gruesome images, I know. But unfortunately, we’re only getting started with the horror show. See, a young man, Hani Sarofim Nasrala Issak, who was a soldier in the Egyptian Army until very recently, has departed this earth.
Secret police flout court order to release former Muslim sheikh.
Bahaa el-Din el-Akkad
October 18 (Compass Direct News) – A Muslim sheikh jailed in Egypt for 18 months has declared from his prison cell that he is under arrest for “insulting Islam” by becoming a Christian.
BEFORE ENTERING THE COUNTERTERRORISM FIELD, I worked for a radical Islamic charity called the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation. In this capacity, I gained some familiarity with the kind of Islamic extremist literature that often finds its way into the U.S. prison system and thus influences inmates' religious education.
Cairo: A female Muslim preacher has been threatened with death for declaring that the niqab (a veil which covers the whole face except for the eyes) is not obligatory.
Captured Taleban say they were sent to fight by Pakistani mullahs (AFP) Khalig Times
BARMAL, Afghanistan - Handcuffed and weary, three confessed Taleban fighters told this week how they crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan to carry out a “jihad” against troops after mullahs said it was their duty as Muslims.
The department's Customs and Border Protection section would not elaborate on why Kamal Helbawy, 67, a founding member of the Muslim Association of Britain, was told by airline staff to get off his flight shortly before it was due to leave London.
ROME—Prime Minister Romano Prodi said yesterday that Muslim immigrant women should not be completely "hidden" behind full veils if they want to integrate and become part of Italy's future.
LONDON - The Sudanese government is supporting the feared Janjaweed militia, which the United States accuses of genocide against non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
