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.
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.
The battle to deal with radicalisation in the fight against terrorism could take at least 15 years to achieve, the UK's new security minister has said.
CAIRO: Transparency International’s 2007 annual report listed Egypt among those countries which suffer from corruption in its legal system. For Egypt to achieve political progress and put an end to the corruption present in the legal system, the legal system and the public prosecutor have to be independent of the government, Hossam Bahgat, chairman of the Egyptian Initiative of Personal Rights told The Daily Star Egypt.
ISTANBUL, July 6 (Compass Direct News) – Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court this week quashed a previous ruling that had denied Coptic citizens the right to regain their legal Christian identity, ordering a retrial on the hotly contested case. The court based its ruling on Egypt’s civil law containing no reference to ridda [abandoning Islam], which is punishable by death under Islamic law. Ramses el-Nagar, one of the Christians’ defense attorneys, said the ruling establishes that the same legal principles apply to Muslim and Christian citizens alike,
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security forces arrested the leader of a radical mosque under siege in Islamabad as he tried to flee while disguised in a burqa on Wednesday, officials said.
SARAJEVO - Two armed men disguised as Muslim women in burqas held up a bank in Sarajevo and got away with some $40,000, Bosnian police said on Tuesday.
CAIRO - Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of Coptic converts to Islam seeking to legally revert back to Christianity, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said.
"The decision by the Supreme Administrative Court to consider the case of Egyptian converts to Islam wanting to return to their Church is very positive," Ramsis al-Naggar said.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted to cut off all aid to Saudi Arabia despite the Bush administration’s support for the country, accusing the close U.S. ally of religious intolerance and funding terrorism.
Canadians believe that the country's traditional French-English tensions will be overshadowed by friction between Christians and Muslims when Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary a decade from now, according to a survey of attitudes on intercultural and interfaith relations by the Association for Canadian Studies.
WASHINGTON -- Visiting an Islamic mosque on Washington's Embassy Row, President Bush delivered a strongly worded denunciation today of Muslim radicals and said he would appoint for the first time a U.S. representative to a major international Islamic organization.