by Dr. David Liepert Canadian Muslim Leader and Spokesperson, Interfaith Advisor to the Canadian Council of Imams HUFFINGTON POST Whether or not it turns out (as I expect it will) that Middle-Eastern Muslim mobs were duped by jihadist radicals — provoked by an old, fringe video to provide cover for […]
U.S. warns of rising threat of violence amid outrage over anti-Islam video By the CNN Wire Staff updated 10:19 PM EDT, Thu September 13, 2012 Protesters chant slogans during a march to the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, September 13. One protester was killed in clashes when Yemeni security […]
by David Frum, The Daily Beast. Mitt Romney has received much (deserved) criticism for his maladroit comments on the 9/11 embassy attacks. But you know what? There is a critique to be made of the Obama administration’s approach to Islamism, especially in Egypt – and it doesn’t require anyone to […]
ICNA condemns attacks on U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya ICNA issued a press release today condemning the attacks on U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya, which came after the preview for an anti-Islamic film by an American filmmaker surfaced online. “ICNA strongly condemns the violent attacks […]
Head of World’s Largest Interfaith Organization Condemns Libya and Egypt Violence, Calls for Deeper Look into Islamophobia and Intolerance FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 09-12-12 Contact: Imam Malik Mujahid, malik@soundvision.com Imam Malik Mujahid, Chairperson of the Board of the Council for the Parliament of the World Religions (www.parliamentofreligions.org), said today that the […]
An extreme American film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed and calls Islam a “cancer” provokes violence across Muslim countries. BY Sam Kiley SKY NEWS If there was ever a propaganda […]
When religion defines foreign policy it will inevitably clash with national interests, creating the grounds for wars that only elites who rule in the name of religion win, writes Gamil Matar (Al-Ahram Weekly) That Egypt’s president cites Quranic verses and uses religious phrases in his public addresses does not surprise […]
Source: CNN Cairo (CNN) — Angry protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and hauled down its American flags, replacing them with black flags with Islamic emblems. More:
The hard truth is that the clash between the value systems of political Islam and modernity is so total as to make them incompatible, writes Tarek Heggy Source: Al Ahram Weekly, Cairo http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1113/op4.htm “Bear witness for us, O pen/ That we shall not sleep/ That we shall not dither between […]
Dr. Abdul Hamid al-Atrash, the head of the Fatwa Committee of Al Azhar in Egypt, has issued a ruling that Arabs may ban Jews from visiting their holy sites in […]
Noted Muslim writer Tariq Ramadan to speak tonight in Ann Arbor Detroit Free Press Staff Writer FILED UNDER The writer who’s the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood — the Islamic group now in power in Egypt — is speaking tonight in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan. […]
Source: Telegraph. He just can’t bring himself to say it News that Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s Islamist president, has promised to uphold his country’s long-standing peace treaty with Israel has been widely welcomed. Revealingly, however, Mr Morsi refused to refer to the Jewish state by name, sticking instead to a generalised […]
BY AYA BATRAWY Associated Press The Kansas City Star CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist leader vowed to carry out tough structural reforms to overhaul his country’s ailing economy and create a […]
ARAB NEWS Saturday 8 September 2012 CAIRO: Qatar said it would invest $ 18 billion in tourism and industry projects along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast over the next five years. The […]
They began as a cry for freedom in the Middle East, but the Arab rebellions have become increasingly characterized by an ancient sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. SPIEGEL examines how the power struggle between the two groups is sparking new fears along old frontlines. In the countries that […]
by Hana Namrouqa JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Marine biologists and divers in the Gulf of Aqaba are on alert after widespread bleaching of coral reefs was detected off the Egyptian […]
Written by Alex Newman SOURCE: The New American The Obama administration is close to finalizing a massive $1-billion bailout for the increasingly totalitarian Muslim Brotherhood regime ruling over Egypt, according to U.S. government officials cited in news reports. The move is already drawing fierce criticism from opponents arguing that bailing […]
Veiled Female News Anchor May Signal Waning of Secular Egypt Egypt State TV, Fatma Nabil reads out the headlines wearing a headscarf on the noon news bulletin on state television in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 3, 2012. TEXT SIZE Edward Yeranian September 03, 2012 CAIRO — A long-standing ban against veiled […]
Egypt’s lifting of an implicit ban on veiled TV anchors is seen as an end to discrimination, but some worry it could lead to limits on women’s freedoms. By Reem […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Lebanon Two major events took place this week that garnered much attention round the world: the Republican Party convention in Tampa, Florida, that officially nominated Mitt Romney as its presidential candidate, and the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran. Both generated much […]