VIDEO EXCLUSIVE :: Bernard Lewis Explains The Clash With Islamic FundamentalismPosted by The Editors on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 7:55 PM
It is said that a truly brilliant person has the ability
to explain complex problems in clear, concise ways
that everyone can understand. Bernard Lewis, the
most distinguished scholar of Islam in the world,
proved that dictum on Monday, September 11th
when he spoke at the Hudson Institute's conference
on the problems with the U.N.
Canadian PM deny Canadian passport to the terrorist Egyptian family in Toronto
TORONTO (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is backing his foreign affairs minister's decision to deny a passport to Abdurahman Khadr, the son of a suspected al-Qaida financier.
"Minister (Peter) MacKay has taken his decision based on national security according to his powers and responsibilities," Harper said Wednesday. "Mr. Khadr has the right to appeal that decision.
Mother on terror charges for failing to report husband's alleged jihad plans
A young mother appeared in court yesterday charged with terrorism-related offences.
Bouchra El-Hor, 23, is charged with concealing information and failing to disclose information in relation to her cleric husband Yassin Nassari's alleged preparations for Jihad.
"Is the West Racist Toward Muslims and Arabs?"
The US should hold Arabs and Muslims to a universal standard
by Michael Rubin Bitterlemons-International August 31, 2006 Is the West racist toward Arabs and Muslims? In the United States, the answer is both no and yes. The United States is about the best place any Muslim, Christian or Jew can live. They can speak freely and worship freely. Despite the rhetoric of some groups that claim to represent American Muslims, there is very little discrimination.
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2006 On October 22, 2005, the France 2 television talk show Tout le Monde en Parle aired an interview with writer Salman Rushdie and French actor and Islamist Sami Nacéri. Left on the cutting room floor was an ugly incident during taping when Nacéri accused Rushdie of debasing Islam. If an imam asked him to kill Rushdie, Nacéri went on, he would himself shoot the bullet into Rushdie's head. He then pantomimed firing a gun at Rushdie.
Islam poses a threat to the West, say 53pc in poll
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
The alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners and last year's terrorist attacks on London have made more people fear Islam as a religion, not merely its extremist elements, a poll for The Daily Telegraph has found.
A growing number of people fear that the country faces "a Muslim problem" and more than half of the respondents to the YouGov survey said that Islam posed a threat to Western liberal democracy.
Muslim Brothers is a Terrorist organisation, a confidential report.Mubarak told Solana in a conversation about London bombing that one has to be carefull with Muslim Brothers..... George Bush told visiting PM Nazif that US consider Muslim Brothers a terrorist organisatin.
Tamimi in Manchester: "dying for your beliefs is just"
By BEN TAYLOR 15:39pm21st August 2006A British-based Muslim radical appeared to back suicide bombing yesterday when he claimed that dying for your beliefs was 'just'. Dr Azzam Tamimi told an 8,000-strong crowd that standing up for your principles was the 'greatest act of martyrdom'. The 51-year-old was speaking at the ExpoIslamia convention in Manchester.The Palestinian-born academic - who previously boasted he would carry out a suicide bombing in Israel - also repeated his public backing for Hamas, which remains banned in the UK. More
Winston Pickett and Mark Gardner For much of the twentieth century the constellation of totalitarian ideologies coalesced around the Second World War and the Cold War, a fact that provided historians and analysts with familiar points on the political compass.
Broadly speaking, extremism was bounded within the ideologies of fascism on the one hand, and the revolutionary Left on the other.
By: Elias Bejjani
August 22/06
International and Lebanese news agencies have reported that Hezbollah has began as of last Friday August 18, distributing US $12,000 per Shiite (only) family whose home was destroyed in the Israeli air strikes on the Southern suburbs, South Lebanon and Beirut, where Hezbollah has erected its three mini-states
In his latest Video interview on 27th July 2006, Ayman Al-Zawahri, the second in command of AlQaeda has warned in a video statement that those backing attacks on Muslims in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip will be made to pay.
Self-designated imam Arafat Mahmoud, far center, leads an Islamic prayer as Hakimi Abd Elfattah, left, and other prisoners pray in a jail cell in the Bollate prison, on the outskirts of Milan
By Jennifer CarlileMILAN, Italy —"In prison you only think about waking up, cleaning your cell, and praying," said a Moroccan inmate serving time in a prison on the outskirts of this city. During a recent visit to the Bollate prison, 25-year-old Hakimi Abd Elfattah said he was a non-observant Muslim before being incarcerated, but "there's nothing to do in here, so I learn a little of the Quran
Secret documents show the Foreign Office is ready to risk international fury by opening a dialogue with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
By Martin BrightThe British government has a terrible dilemma. Should it refuse to deal with radical Islamic movements altogether, and so risk alienating large parts of the Muslim world, or should it make overtures towards the leaders of these movements and face down accusations that it is appeasing Islamofascists?