In his recent speech at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., President George W. Bush once again stressed the fundamental importance of religious freedom. It is “the very first protection offered in America’s Bill of Rights. It is a precious freedom. It is a basic compact under which people of faith agree not to impose their spiritual vision on others, and in return to practice their own beliefs as they see fit.” He does this repeatedly, and emphasizes its significance through other events, such as his private meeting with Cardinal Joseph Zen, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Hong Kong, something the State department reportedly opposed.
The History of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. Courts
By Jeffrey Breinholt
The most pointed and interesting discussions at the recent NEFA Conference on the Muslim Brotherhood involved the issue that is the subject of so much recent public commentary: whether Western governments should embrace the Brotherhood as an effective counterweight to Al Qaida. Meanwhile, the lawsuit filed by several Arizona-based Muslim leaders against US Airways, after passenger complaints led to their being pulled from a recent Minnesota flight, along with the libel actions filed against those who have dared to write about Islamic charities in the U.S., raises an interesting issue that was not addressed at the NEFA event nor, to my knowledge, by any legal commentatory: what is the Muslim Brotherhood’s history with the American courts?
Cairo - Fifty years ago, no Egyptian would have believed that a fight between two children - a Muslim and a Christian - could ignite violence requiring the presence of truckloads of heavily-armed riot police to contain it. But this happened last month in the once cosmopolitan Mediterranean city of Alexandria, albeit in one of the city's poorer districts. There, a fist fight between two boys in front of a church turned into a full-blown sectarian clash between Muslims and Christians.
Across town from the site of the recent attempted car-bomb attacks, several thousand Muslims gathered in front of the London Central Mosque to applaud fiery preachers prophesying the overthrow of the British government –
Forty-five Saudis have been fighting with the terrorist group Fatah al Islam in Nahr al Bared camp. So far, 23 of them have been killed and were buried in a mass grave, as stated by the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon [Brigadier General Sultan Abul Ainain] in Asharq Al-Awsat last Monday. The names of some of those killed were published in ‘al Hayat’ newspaper.
A cry of anguish and pain, please help. Egyptian police
and persecution of converts.
Let My People Go
With a cry of anguish and pain, Moses once cried out to Pharaoh saying “Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness” (Exodus 5:1). This same cry is the cry of the persecuted in our beloved Egypt for the past 1428 years –years where we have been living under the shadows of fire. Today we, too, cry out to our own Pharaoh, Hosny Mubarak and his party, to let Abdullah Ahmad Reyad go.
Abdullah Ahmad Reyad, a 54 year old engineer, has known God for many years through Yusuf Reyad, his father, also a Muslim Background Believer (MBB).
When Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicated the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., in June 1957, his 500-word talk effused good will ("Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements") even as the American president embarrassingly bumbled (Muslims in the United States, he declared, have the right to their "own church"). Conspicuously, he included nary a word about policy.
THE car-bomb/suicide-terror operations in London and Glasgow should have provided a fresh opportunity for reminding everyone, especially Muslims in Britain, that terrorism in the name of Islam still poses a major threat to public peace and safety. Yet this is not what is happening.
The events that are repeatedly happening in our beloved Egypt are not only produced by chance, but they are the result of the vast amount of accumulated policies tainted by the “Aldojemati” school of thought. For such events that are daily happening in our Egyptian society are triggered by the core event that happened nearly 50 years ago (45 to be exact) –
Egypt and the Modern Civil State, Article II, and the Muslim Brotherhood
The day of what is called “The Old State”, which was built on conquest, change by coercion and brutal force has long gone and has been replaced by “TheModernCivilState” which is based on an unwritten Social Contract.
Is the knighting of Salman Rushdie, 60, by the queen of England "a sign of the changing mood" toward British Muslims, as Observer columnist Nick Cohen wrote? Is it "a welcome example of … British backbone," as Islamism specialist Sadanand Dhume described it in the Wall Street Journal?
July 2-9, 2007 issue - Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, are strangely united on one point: the threat from global jihad is growing dangerously. Republicans use that belief as a way to remind the American people that we live in a fearsome world—and need tough leaders to protect us.
June 22, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope"
Reports on last week’s Shura Council (the Consultative Council, the upper house of Egypt’s Parliament) mid-term elections diverged so widely, that it would appear as though the elections were being covered in different countries.
Dr. Monir Dawoud is an affable physician and surgeon from Hudson County, N.J., who has become increasingly angry in recent weeks with the United Nations and the governments of the Western world for deliberately ignoring the dire human rights situation facing the Coptic community in Egypt.
''The Brotherhood is an historic hard shell movement that has no respect or tolerance for democratic or Western values.''
ELI SCHWARTZ
A democracy exists when, if one party wins an election, it is perfectly possible for another party to win a later election. Not every election is a herald of democracy. The sad phenomenon ''one person, one vote, one time'' describes the death of democracy.
I have been reading Ed Husain’s The Islamist, whose rather lengthy subtitle is “Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left.” It is a testimony to first a conversion to ever-deepening circles of politicized Islam, and away from the traditional spiritual faith of his parents, and then, another conversion, as he moves much more slowly back to both a spiritual Muslim faith, and a wide ranging grasp of both historical and political realities, and the benefits and problems of a political and cultural democracy.
Forty-five Saudis have been fighting with the terrorist group Fatah al Islam in Nahr al Bared camp. So far, 23 of them have been killed and were buried in a mass grave, as stated by the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon [Brigadier General Sultan Abul Ainain] in Asharq Al-Awsat last Monday. The names of some of those killed were published in ‘al Hayat’ newspaper.
I have been reading Ed Husain’s The Islamist, whose rather lengthy subtitle is “Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left.” It is a testimony to first a conversion to ever-deepening circles of politicized Islam, and away from the traditional spiritual faith of his parents, and then, another conversion, as he moves much more slowly back to both a spiritual Muslim faith, and a wide ranging grasp of both historical and political realities, and the benefits and problems of a political and cultural democracy.