Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said authorities would shut what was described as a “hardline, Turkish nationalist mosque” in Viennaand also dissolve a group called the Arab Religious Community.
More than 350 mosques urge Tories to launch Islamophobia inquiry
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International Religious Freedom Report for 2017
United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
EGYPT 2017 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT
Executive Summary
The constitution describes freedom of belief as “absolute” and specifies Islam as the state religion. It also enshrines the principles of sharia as the primary source of legislation, which local lawyers stated creates potential legal ambiguities with regard to the freedom of belief guaranteed in the constitution. The constitution only provides adherents of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism the right to practice their religion freely and to build houses of worship. The government continued not to recognize and restrict Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and Bahais. According to multiple sources, authorities continued to detain and physically mistreat former Muslims. Irrespective of religion, authorities also did not apply equal protection to all citizens and sometimes closed churches, in violation of the law, according to multiple sources. Courts charged citizens, including Muslim clerics, with “denigration of religions.” Christians reported discrimination by authorities, especially in rural areas. The government completed rebuilding 78 churches and other church-owned properties which had been destroyed or damaged in mob violence in 2013 and repaired Saints Peter and Paul Church in Cairo after a December 2016 suicide bombing that killed 29 people. It also issued an unprecedented civil marriage license to a Bahai couple with no religious affiliation designated on their national identity card. The government continued its efforts to preserve the nation’s Jewish heritage, including starting work to renovate and protect a historic synagogue in Alexandria. There were incidents of official anti-Semitism and public anti-Semitic statements by Al-Azhar, the country’s primary institution for spreading Islam and defending Islamic doctrine. According to religious leaders, educators, and families, the Ministry of Education made progress in removing language from school textbooks that it said could engender hate toward non-Muslims or promote the view that Islam was superior to other religions. The government-supported Islamic institutions Al-Azhar and Dar al-Ifta, the country’s fatwa issuing authority, continued to debate reforms to Islamic jurisprudence which mandates the death penalty for apostasy from Islam.
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Terrorist kills 3 in Belgium with guns of stabbed police officers
A Knife-wielding man stabs two police officers in the Belgian city of Liege, steals their weapons and shoots them and a bystander dead in an attack prosecutors say is terror-related.
Reuters|Published: 05.29.18 , 14:33
A man killed two policewomen and a bystander in the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday before being shot dead in a gunbattle at a school in what prosecutors are treating as a terrorist attack.
The man was named by public broadcaster RTBF as a 36-year-old petty criminal who had been let out on day-release from a local prison on Monday. It said investigators were looking into whether he had converted to Islam and been radicalized in jail.
Gunshots fired in Belgium
A public prosecutor told a news conference that the man attacked the policewomen from behind with a knife, described as a box-cutter by RTBF, around 10:30 am (4.30 am ET) on a boulevard in the center of Belgium’s third city, near the German border.After stabbing the officers, prosecutor Philippe Dulieu said, the man seized one of their handguns and shot both women dead before walking down the street and shooting dead a 22-year-old man who was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car.The man then made his way into a high school where he took a woman employee hostage, triggering a major intervention by armed police. Pupils were moved to safety as a gunbattle broke out that sent people in the street racing for cover. Several police were wounded before the attacker was finally killed.“The event is classed as a terrorist incident,” Dulieu said.
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Coptic Christian battles prejudice in Egyptian football
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After a three-year wait, the Egyptian Coptic families of 20 men beheaded by the so-called Islamic State in Libya in 2015 have finally received their loved ones’ remains.
The leader of the Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, accompanied by several bishops, priests and deacons, welcomed the 20 coffins at the Cairo airport on Monday evening, 14th May, with prayers and Coptic chants.
The families finally received their loved ones’ remains yesterday. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor
From there the coffins were transported to the village of Al-Our in Minya province, where the Church of the Martyrs of Faith and Homeland, dedicated to the victims, had been inaugurated in February in anticipation of their repatriation.
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Family of suicide bombers attacks 3 churches in Indonesia, killing 7, police say
By Masrur Jamaluddin, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Susannah Cullinane, CNN
Updated 1902 GMT (0302 HKT) May 13, 2018
Jakarta (CNN)Police believe a husband, wife and their four children carried out the suicide attacks on three churches in Surabaya that left seven people dead, Indonesia's top cop said Sunday.
The attackers included two daughters aged 9 and 12 years old, said Head Gen. Tito Karnavian, the country's highest-ranking police official.
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خالد منتصر يتحدى شيخ الازهر على قوله أن يكون قد تخرج من الأزهر إرهابي أو تكفيري واحد
قال الدكتور خالد منتصر عبر صفحته علي موقع التواصل الاجتماعي فيس بوك شيخ الأزهر يتحدي أن يكون قد تخرج من الأزهر إرهابي أو تكفيري واحد وأنا موافق علي كلامه ففعلاً لم يتخرج إرهابي واحد بل تخرج أكثر بكثير و مع احترامي نحن نستأذن فضيلته أن يراجع تلك الأسماء وهل هم من خريجي الأزهر أم من مدرسة الباليه ومعاهد تنسيق الزهور؟! :
د عمر عبد الرحمن دكتوراه كلية أصول الدين
محمد سالم رحال مؤسس تنظيم الجهاد الإسلامي في الأردن كلية أصول الدين .
أبو بكر شيكاو زعيم بوكو حرام شريعه وقانون
أبو اسأمه المصري قائد تنظيم ولاية سينا ء
أبو ربيعه المصري زعيم تنظيم القاعدة بالبصرة شريعه وقانون عبد الله عزام. الأب الروحي لتنظيمات الجهاد الأفغانية ليسانس أصول فقه.
عبد رب الرسول سياف رئيس الاتحاد الإسلامي الأفغاني ماجستير الحديث
برهان الدين رباني ثاني رئيس لدولة المجاهدين في كابول ماجستير في الفلسفة الإسلامية.
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