PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, in the bloodiest attack in Pakistan this year. The bomber struck at the climax of the service, as the mosque leader was starting the communal prayer, witnesses said.
Mark Lenihan/Associated Press Aafia Siddiqui,a neuroscientist, is accused of trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan.
A federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Thursday that two government psychiatrists had concluded that a Pakistani neuroscientist charged with trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan had been faking her symptoms of mental illness.
URGENT - Fairness before the law for Metaos Wahba - URGENT
Your Excellency,
I am writing to you on behalf of Metaos Wahba, who is a Christian priest in Cairo, who is presently still imprisoned in Tora prison near Cairo.
Metaos Wahba is from the Santa-Maria church at Gizeh. He was accused of forgery of documents. He married a Christian man with a female Christian convert from Islam.
Netherlands Supreme Court: Insulting Islam is not insulting Muslims
THE HAGUE
The Supreme Court yesterday produced an important ruling in principle in favour of freedom of speech. The highest court of the Netherlands acquitted a man of insulting Muslims although he dubbed Islam a tumour.
The Supreme Court quashed a ruling by an appeal court in Den Bosch. As had a district court earlier, the appeal court did find the man guilty. Yesterday's acquittal can have consequences for all future court cases on insulting followers of a faith or ideology, including the notorious case against MP Geert Wilders.
London -- Nearly 600 people joined the One Law for All anti-racist rally against Sharia and religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere and in defence of citizenship and universal rights in Trafalgar Square and marched towards Red Lion Square in London.
Gamal Mubarak Meets With Coptic Leaders In U.S. In Advance Of Father's Visit
Memri Blog
The Egyptian daily Al-Masryoon reported that during his recent visit to the U.S., Gamal Mubarak, the son of Egyptian Prime Minister Hosni Mubarak, met with Copt leaders in the U.S., in an attempt to deal with problems connected to the Copts in Egypt, and thus to prevent protests by Copts during his father's visit to the White House next month.
Catholic Church slams new code of conduct forcing teachers to promote Islam and gay rights
Daily Mail
It would not be possible for a person of faith to promote another faith: OonaghStannard with Education Secretary Ed Balls
The Roman Catholic Church has severely criticised a proposed new code of conduct for teachers which it says will force Christian schools to actively promote Islam and gay rights.
The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has warned the General Teaching Council, by the professional regulatory body, that many teachers will quit the profession because they will not be able to accept the revised code of conduct in good conscience.
Islamic Lawyers Urge Death Sentence for Egyptian Convert
In case on whether he can legally change religion, Christian is accused of ‘apostasy.’
By Roger Elliott
ISTANBUL, February 26 (Compass Direct News) – In the latest hearing of a Muslim-born Egyptian’s effort to officially convert to Christianity, opposing lawyers advocated he be convicted of “apostasy,” or leaving Islam, and sentenced to death.
Egyptian Law Granting Twins to Muslim to be Reviewed
Christian mother wins right to high court appeal regarding ruling that favored Muslim father.
By Roger Elliott
ISTANBUL, February 20 (Compass Direct News) – Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud last week granted the mother of 14-year-old twins Andrew and Mario Medhat Ramses the right to appeal a custody decision awarding her sons to their Muslim father.
UK: Any Muslim advocating for the caliphate, sharia, jihad, and the slaying of homosexuals to be branded "extremist" -- new anti-terror code
Guardian
• Draft strategy brands thousands as extremists • Ministers ponder plan to be unveiled next month
The government is considering plans that would lead to thousands more British Muslims being branded as extremists, the Guardian has learned. The proposals are in a counterterrorism strategy which ministers and security officials are drawing up that is due to be unveiled next month.
Ayman Nour's release may be a gesture of goodwill to the Obama administration. His imprisonment had strained relations between Cairo and Washington.
Reporting from Cairo -- An Egyptian political dissident whose imprisonment had strained relations between Cairo and Washington for more than three years was unexpectedly freed today in an apparent goodwill gesture toward the new Obama administration.
A child of Cairo's streets, with a child of her own
Amira Osman Dakhly, 13, who is carrying her daugher Randa, is one of thousands of street children in Cairo, Egypt.
Amira has a baby girl and is expecting. She is 13, with no permanent place to stay, one of thousands of street children in Egypt, whose laws make a hard life harder for a single mother like her.
2 Egyptian Copt Christians Accused of Evangelism “crime” ,BBC LINK
This is from BBCArabic, I couldn’t find it in English, it would save me time, but it seems BBC English do not like westerners to know what they should know.
CAIRO -- Two Coptic Christian rights activists have been arrested in Egypt for allegedly insulting Prophet Mohammed on a British-based Web site, their lawyer and a judicial source said Thursday.
Group leader helped Christian convert, who has new lawyer for conversion case.
by Peter Lamprecht
ISTANBUL, August 9 (Compass Direct News) – Egyptian police detained the head of a Christian rights group yesterday after he held a high-publicity, online chat session with a controversial Muslim convert to Christianity, the group’s international leader said.
Cairo - An Egyptian man has asked the Egyptian courts to recognise his conversion from Islam to Christianity and instruct the government to change the details on his identity documents, his lawyer said on Monday.
Attorney for former Muslim seeking Christian ID leaves amid threats, national uproar.
by Peter Lamprecht
ISTANBUL, August 8 (Compass Direct News) – An Egyptian convert to Christianity who filed suit for his conversion to be officially recognized is in hiding after his attorney announced he would withdraw from the case yesterday.
Presumably as part of its continuing campaign to remain the most controversial television channel in Britain, Channel 4 last night broadcast an interview with a jihadi sympathiser who explicitly advocates the taking up of arms by British Muslims.
All is not well with the one eye'd warrior of holy jihad, it would appear that the great jihad warrior is well crying like a little girl over his treatment. Like all jihadists he is just a gutless sniveling coward at heart.
Muslim Sues Egypt for the Right to Convert to Christianity
Christian’s attorney facing death threats from Egyptian security police.
by Peter Lamprecht
ISTANBUL, August 6 (Compass Direct News) – A Muslim convert to Christianity filed suit against Egypt last week for refusing to legally recognize his change of religion, sparking a reactionary lawsuit by Muslim clerics and death threats against his lawyer.
A San Diego school that drew international attention for setting aside time for Muslim students to pray in the classroom will no longer do so, it was reported Friday.
Federal agents searched the homes of two men connected with an Islamic charity that was raided in Dearborn last month, records filed in federal court in Detroit show.
MILAN (Reuters) - A Qatar sheikh held up a British Airways flight at Milan’s Linate airport for nearly three hours after discovering three of his female relatives had been seated next to men they did not know.
This is the original report mentioned in the Arabic Egyptian press. If anything,it proves that they are all lying. There is no mention whatsoever of allocating part of the aid to the Christian Copts. Once again the Egyptian press proved how reliable and trustworthy they are.
اكاذيب الصحافة المصرية عن تأثير الأقباط السلبى على المعونة الأمريكية
Egypt mufti reaffirms Muslim freedom of faith choice
July 26, 2007
CAIRO -- Egypt's top religious advisor, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, reaffirmed his belief Thursday that Muslims could choose their own religion after the local press carried apparently conflicting statements.
The London lawyer representing the injured "dirty bomber" Dhiren Barot has warned that terrorist convicts are being targeted by other inmates in Britain's jails.
Cairo: Egypt's top cleric yesterday denied in a statement that he had said a Muslim can give up his faith without punishment.
Ali Goma'a, the mufti of Egypt, was quoted as saying in a posting on a Washington Post-Newsweek forum that Muslims are free to change their faith and this is a matter between an individual and God.
Today the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), along with its European affiliate the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), asked a federal district court in Pennsylvania to protect the human rights of a Coptic Christian from Egypt who is likely to face torture and possible death if he is returned to his native country. The ACLJ and the ECLJ, which has special consultative status with the United Nations (UN), filed an amicus brief with the district court on behalf of Sameh Sami S. Khouzam.
Two young boys ordered to take a school test that would result in their conversion to Islam wrote, "I am Christian," on the exam papers, knowing in advance that could very well spell the end of their educations. Now a U.S.-based organization is lobbying for international pressure on Egypt to quit forcing Christians into such no-win situations.
Egypt's Grand Mufti says Muslims can choose religion
Paul Schemm
CAIRO -- Egypt's official religious advisor has ruled that Muslims are free to change their faith as it is a matter between an individual and God, in a move that could have far-reaching implications for the country's Christians.
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. The same should be done in the United States.