CAIRO, Egypt: Egypt must change its policy of not allowing converts from Islam and members of the Bahai faith to register their religion in official documents, two human rights groups said Monday.
Egypt Jails More Christian Activists from Rights Group
Like colleagues just released, MECA workers accused of ‘defaming Islam.’
by Peter Lamprecht
CAIRO, November 12 (Compass Direct News) – Just days after two Christian activists from a human rights group were released from jail, Egyptian authorities took three of their colleagues into police custody over the weekend.
Arrest of two new members of the Middle East Christians Association in Egypt
MECA
In the first hours of this morning November 10th, 2007 at 4:00 am two new members of our organization "Middle East Christians Association" were arrested in Egypt, Mr. Wagih Yaakoob the official spokesman of our association and Mr Victor a member.
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN Staff Reporter of the Sun November 7, 2007
The rivalry and violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims isn't just limited to Iraq. It is increasingly found in one place presumed shut off from the influence of faraway sectarian politics: New York's state prisons.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican - the first audience by the head of the Roman Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch.
The Vatican described the private meeting as "warm" and said the two men discussed the presence and hard work of Christians in Saudi Arabia.
The Conservative government revived a controversy focused largely on veiled Muslim women by announcing plans to legally require all voters to show their face before casting a ballot in a federal election.
Cairo, October 22 (Advocates For The Persecuted) – The Egyptian government has issued a summons to six people involved in the one-time publication of a magazine, “Egypt First,” to appear in court for questioning on October 23.
Ramzi Yousef, Al-Qaeda terrorist 'converts to Christianity'
THE mastermind of the first terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Centre claims to have converted from Islam to Christianity.
Ramzi Yousef, a self-proclaimed Muslim extremist with past links to al-Qaeda, plotted with others to blow up the twin towers in lower Manhattan. Six people died in the February 26, 1993, bombing.
Bishoy “formerly Mohamed Hegazi” flat contents in Cairo is smashed and burnt down.
Bishoy “formerly Mohamed Hegazi” the convert to Christianity with his wife now in hiding in Cairo were informed by friends that their flat contents was smashed and it’s contents burnt down in the middle of the street on 11 October.
A third of a million bodies could be dug up from a historic east London cemetery to make way for a new Muslim burial site.
Ed Harris, Evening Standard 11.10.07
Tower Hamlets council is considering reopening its Cemetery Park in Mile End in response to a long-running campaign for a Muslim graveyard in the area.
The park, off Bow Common Lane, was deconsecrated as a Church of England cemetery by Parliament in 1966, after being deemed full with about 350,000 bodies buried there.
'Osama bin London' Muslim fanatic 'trained 21/7 bombers'
By CHARLOTTE GILL
A Muslm fanatic who mockingly called himself "Osama bin London" radicalised and trained the July 21 bombers, a court heard yesterday.
Mohammed Hamid is said to have taken his brainwashed followers on paintballing trips and training camps in the English countryside to prepare them for fighting.
Egyptian Islamists Join Case against Convert to Christianity
Former Muslim sues Egypt for right to become Christian.
by Peter Lamprecht
ISTANBUL, October 10 (Compass Direct News) – Conservative Islamic lawyers came out in support of the Egyptian government last week at the opening court hearing of a Muslim convert to Christianity.
In a move that has caused national uproar, former Muslim Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy is suing Egypt to change the religion listed on his identification papers to Christianity.
Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent Tuesday October 9, 2007 The Guardian
Muslims must respect people of all faiths and not exclude them on the grounds of religion, race or any other personal characteristic, a senior Vatican official said this week. In a message to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of Ramadan, the Pope's interfaith expert has called for a "culture of peace and solidarity" between different religious communities and to spread a teaching "which honours all human creatures".
CAIRO: A court in Abbasiya has extended the jail terms of the two Egyptian Christians accused of “defaming” Islam, by another 30 days.
Peter Ezzat and Dr Adel Fawzy Faltas Hanna, both members of the Canada-based Middle East Christian Association (Meca), have been imprisoned since August 8 after police raided their homes confiscating CDs, computers and books, which prosecutors allege contain materials offensive to Islam.
NIGERIA: ISLAMIC COURT ENDORSES ABDUCTION OF GIRLS
A Muslim mother’s dying wish: that Christian father lose custody of daughters.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, October 9 (Compass Direct News) – It has been more than a year since Allabe Kaku Chibok lost his three daughters because he became a Christian – paradoxically, he lost custody of them only after his ex-wife died.
Muslim checkout staff get an alcohol opt-out clause
Times on Line "Comments are more interesting than the article"
MUSLIM supermarket checkout staff who refuse to sell alcohol are being allowed to opt out of handling customers’ bottles and cans of drink.
Islamic workers at Sainsbury’s who object to alcohol on religious grounds are told to raise their hands when encountering any drink at their till so that a colleague can temporarily take their place or scan items for them.
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia’s religious police have arrested a domestic worker accused of having put a spell on her employer, the Al Madina newspaper reported on Sunday.
The arrest of the maid, whose nationality was not revealed, followed a complaint by the wife of the employer who she said had been ‘bewitched by the maid’
DAMASCUS: A Syrian cleric who recruited foreigners travelling to Iraq to fight US-led forces was assassinated in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday, his aides said. Sheikh Mahmoud Abou al-Qaqa was shot dead after he emerged from Friday prayers, they said.
Palestinian Christian activist stabbed to death in Gaza
A Palestinian Christian activist who had received repeated death threats was found stabbed to death in a street in Gaza City early Sunday.
Rami Khader Ayyad, 32, was director of the Teacher's Bookshop, Gaza's only Christian bookstore, which is run by the Bible Society of Gaza Baptist church.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.
UK: Muslim medical students refusing to attend lectures on alcohol or sexually transmitted diseases as it offends their religious beliefs
Daniel Foggo and Abul Taher
Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs.
CAIRO, Egypt: Egyptian police were investigating Friday the slaying of two Coptic Christians found dead in the same village where one of the country's worst sectarian massacres took place seven years before.
RIYADH: A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday.
The man, whom the paper did not identify, ended his marriage on the grounds his wife was effectively alone with an unrelated man, which is forbidden under the strict Islamic law enforced in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the paper said.
Men in Saudi Arabia have the authority to divorce their wives without resort to the courts.
Dozens of parents said at an Oak Lawn school board meeting Tuesday night that while they're happy to have a student body of varying religions, they want to keep celebrating what they say are traditional American holidays and customs.
Experts Debate the Influence of Islamism During the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995
By Judith Latham 27 September 2007
More than 6,000 Arab volunteers arrived during the early stages of the war. About 1,000 of them remained in Bosnia as naturalized citizens
The role of the mujahadeen, or holy warriors, in Afghanistan during the 1980’s has become well known in the six years since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. But some Balkan analysts say that in the 1990’s Bosnia served as a “crucible for the global jihad” led by Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida organization.
On Wednesday 3rd October 2007, two Copts Mr. Wasfi Sadek Ishaq (40) and Karam Klieb Endarawis (24) were shot dead in cold blood while guarding their crops of maize in their field 200 meters outside Awlad Toq Garb, Dar El-Salaam district, Sohag Governorate, an incident reminiscent of El-Kosheh I (where 2 Copts were killed by Muslim fanatics and the Egyptian police framed an innocent Christians man, Shaiboub William Arsal who is still in prison for a crime he never committed)
OTTAWA and TORONTO -- Ottawa has received its first applications to start up Canadian banks operating within the strictures of Islamic religious law - financial institutions that, if approved, would be among the first in the West.
Canada's bank regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, is studying two proposals for banks that offer services in keeping with Islamic laws that forbid speculation and interest but are in favour of transactions where profit and loss is shared.
PajamasXpress blogger Flemming Rose learned yesterday that he was the target of a planned terrorist attack. The editor who published the controversial Mohammed cartoons writes that he is determined not to let the revelation change his life.
BAKERY giants Greggs have installed a Muslims-only toilet at their new Scottish headquarters - despite the fact that no Muslims work there.
Workers at the state-of-the-art factory were shocked when they were given a tour of the building and told a cubicle had been fitted for the use of Muslim employees. The staff said they are baffled at the decision because they are not aware of any Islamic workers at the base in Cambuslang, near Glasgow.
MADRID - DPA - A seven-year-old Moroccan girl living in Spain went back to school Tuesday after the Catalan regional government allowed her to do so wearing the Muslim headscarf.
CAIRO — Swedish Muslims were disappointed Saturday, September 22, at a ruling by Justice Chancellor Goeran Lambertz, who said the anti-Prophet Muhammad cartoon published in a local newspaper did not constitute incitement to racial hatred.
"Of course we reject the ruling, but we can't help but respect it," Stockholm-based Chaka Benmakhlouf, President of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, told IslamOnline.net over the phone.
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