Copts-United learned from reliable sources that Police Intelligence Major Ahmad Ali Abu-Zeid has arrested two Christians named Amir Gaber Salama and Emad Adly Aziz on a false and fabricated charges in an attempt to silence and pressurize the Christians in the village to accept the last two events of violence against them resulting in the death of a Christian and the severe injury to the other which took place a month earlier. Copts-United will update you with information as they arrive.
قال الدكتور فتحي سرور رئيس مجلس الشعب المصري ان المجلس سوف يستدعي وزير الثقافة فاروق حسني لاستجوابه في جلسة خاصة أمام لجنتي الشؤون الدينية والثقافية، حول تصريحاته المعارضة للحجاب.
طلبت ياسمين، البالغة من العمر 14 عاما، وشقيقتها سندس، البالغة من العمر 11 عاما، وهما من أصول عراقية، طلبتا من مدير مدرستهما، ومن خلال والدهما، تخصيص غرفة لهما لتصليا فيها خلال فسحة اليوم الدراسي.
لكن الامر استغرق عدة أيام حتى تم توفير الغرفة المطلوبة.
وخلال أيام الانتظار قررت ياسمين وسندس وتلميذات أخريات إقامة الصلاة في ساحة المدرسة
A British Airways (BA) employee has lost her fight to openly wear a cross necklace at work at Heathrow. Nadia Eweida, 55, of Twickenham, has been on unpaid leave since her bosses told her she could not visibly wear her cross at the check-in counter.
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The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds.
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Covert preaching of banned cleric, Bakri on the internet
Bakri Mohammed is broadcasting incognito, the BBC has learned
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LONDON: The second-highest figure in the Church of England waded into the row over Muslim veils, saying they did not conform to “norms of decency” in Britain, in a newspaper interview published on Monday. Doctor John Sentamu, the archbishop of York, questioned whether Muslim women should expect public acceptance for wearing the veil in Britain.
Amnesty International is concerned by the arrest and detention of blogger and former al-Azhar University student Abdel Karim Sulaiman Amer apparently because of his critical writings about Islam and Egypt's al-Azhar religious authorities, and the recent imprisonment of Tal’at Sadat, a member of parliament, for “spreading false rumours and insulting the armed forces".
Police arrested eight men and women Tuesday as they tried to stage a protest against the sexual harassment of women, police and political activists said.
Muslim leaders joined their Christian counterparts yesterday to launch a powerful attack on politicians and town halls that play down Christmas.They warned that attempts to remove religion from the festival were fuelling Right-wing extremism.
NEW laws to clamp down on racism are being prepared by the Government after the leader of the far-right British National Party was cleared of stirring up racial hatred by attacking Islam.
British intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is determined to attack the UK with a nuclear weapon, it emerged yesterday. The announcement, from an officially organised Foreign Office counter-terrorism briefing for the media, was the latest in a series of bleak assessments by senior officials and ministers about the terrorist threat facing Britain.