Christian charity Samaritan's Purse fears anything relating to Jesus may offend MuslimsSo its decision to ban Jesus, God and anything else connected with its own faith has been greeted with little short of puzzlement.
The Netherlands may become the first European country to ban Muslim face veils after its government pledged yesterday to outlaw the wearing in public spaces of the niqab, or veil, and the burka, or full-length cloak covering the head.
THE leader of the far-right British National Party walked free from court overnight after being cleared on race hate charges in a re-trial.Nick Griffin, who was acquitted of using words or behaviour intended or likely to stir up racial hatred, emerged from the courthouse making the victory sign as supporters greeted him waving flags, wielding bottles of champagne and chanting "Freedom".
القاهرة: خالد محمد فى خطوة من المتوقع أن تثير جدلا كبيرا حول تلك القضية، أكد تقرير لهيئة المفوضين بمجلس الدولة المصري حق المرأة في ارتداء النقاب والدخول به الى أي مكان بدون ان يتعرض لها أحد، فيما شدد المستشار عبد القادر قنديل نائب رئيس مجلس الدولة ـ الذي أعد التقرير ـ ان النقاب زي مباحٌ للمرأة، وارتداءها له من حريتها الشخصية والعقائدية والجسدية ولا يجوز حظره أو منعه لأن في ذلك مساسا بالحرية الشخصية والعقيدية.
ROME: An Egyptian cleric who was allegedly kidnapped by the CIA in Milan in 2003 said he was tortured with electric shocks, left in a cell where rats crawled on him and threatened with rape when he was taken to Egypt, an Italian newspaper reported Thursday.
An Italian court yesterday sentenced an Egyptian accused of being one of the masterminds of the 2004 Madrid bombings to 10 years in prison for terrorist association. Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, also known as "Mohamed the Egyptian," was arrested in Milan three months after the March 11, 2004 blasts that killed 191 people and wounded 2,000 others. He is the first suspected Madrid plotter to be convicted following the attacks.
Anyone who knows about the wonderful freedoms today’s Islamic Egypt affords her citizens will be surprised to hear that a harmless 22-year-old blogger who wrote an anti-Islamic essay was thrown into jail recently.
Egyptian police arrested 30 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday, police said.A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said most of the detainees were students of Helwan University who were arrested for alleged illegal activities.
THE Church of England’s only Asian bishop, whose father converted from Islam, has criticised many Muslims for their “dual psychology”, in which they desire both “victimhood and domination”.
CAIRO, Egypt - Tensions between the Egyptian government and a powerful Islamist opposition force spilled onto university campuses last week with clashes that erupted when security forces barred some candidates from running for student elections.
LONDON: Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Thursday that he had no regrets about the article he wrote on Muslim women's veils that triggered an emotionally charged debate around Britain and as far away as the Middle East.
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.
Secret police flout court order to release former Muslim sheikh.
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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.
ONE of Britain’s most senior Muslims has defended as “a great scholar” the Australian imam who likened scantily clad women to uncovered meat that draws predators.
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.
أفاد مندوبنا بالمنيا إن اعتداء وقع أول أمس على أسرة مسيحية فى قرية صفت اللبن التابعة لمركز المنيا أسفر عن إصابة ثلاثة أشخاص بجراح خطيرة نقلوا على أثرها للمستشفى في غيبوبة كاملة كما تم حرق الصليب الموضوع على الكنيسة الرسولية بالقرية؛هذا وقد سبق أن تم الاعتداء على نفس الأسرة منذ أسبوعين وقتل احد أفرادها وفر الجاني هاربا وقيل انه سافر إلى الجماهيرية اليبية وقد نصح الأمن اهالى القرية بتغيير الصليب المحروق ووضع آخر بدلا منه وسوف نوافيكم بآخر التطورات فور وصولها
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.
An Egyptian man and his ex-wife were sentenced Monday for enslaving a girl from their home country for two years while forcing her to work under harsh conditions for no pay.
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.
Mirna Thabet, Student Third Year Secondry School, born 1990 and resides at Street Number 15 branching from Street 45 Alexandria.
Mirna according to the Egyptian low is considered a "Minor" she can not marret or change religion with out the consent of her "Next of Kin"
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ميرنا ثابت فهمى – طالبة بالصف الثالث الثانوى – من مواليد 1990 تقيم بشارع 15 المتفرع من شارع 45. - راسلها شخص يدعى ماهر عن طريق شبكه الانترنت مدعيا انه مسيحى من المنصوره، وأخبرها أنه قادم للاسكندريه يوم الاثنين 23 اكتوبر 2006 ولا يعرف فيها شيئا، وطلب مقابلتها.
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.
THE nation's most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned "meat" that attracts voracious animals.
Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that Britain needed a debate about the position of Muslims, but that the faith also needed to decide how it comes to terms with modernity.
الامن المصري ينفذ طلبا من الازهر لمصادرة كتاب يهاجم التيارات الدينية ويساند امامة المرأة للصلاة.
ميدل ايست اونلاين القاهرة - اكد الناشر المصري الحاج محمد مدبولي صاحب مكتبة مدبولي التي تعتبر من اهم المكتبات على صعيد العالم العربي ان الامن المصري صادر كتاب "الشيوخ المودرن وصناعة التطرف الديني" الذي يهاجم التيارات الدينية ويساند امامة المرأة للصلاة.
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Egyptian Blogger Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman IMPRISONED For Anti-Islamic Comments
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