Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Held in Paris recently, the conference, which witnessed no official Egyptian participation for 30 years now, called for putting the Coptic antiquities on the Egyptian tourist map and recommended the establishment of independent departments of Coptology at Egyptian universities
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Bush’s recent anti-Semitism law was not met with the due response on the part of the governments and civil organizations that had not shockingly protested the United States’ haughtiness in the face of the whole world.
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A Dutch lawyer representing Muslims in the Netherlands has taken legal actions to stop making part II of the controversial movie ?Submission,” which harshly criticizes, in part I, the position of women in Muslim communities.
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The murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, a grandnephew of the famous Dutch painter [Vincent van Gogh,] by a Muslim extremist has increased terror fears in Western and European communities where a large number of Muslims live. Everyone knows that such assassination was the spark that set off...
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The visit of Shaykh Qaradawi to the UK trigged angry British media responses. The Shaykh was described as an extremist, a radical and a hard-liner. Shaykh Qaradawi’s support of martyrdom operations carried out by Palestinians and his calls for punishing homosexuals were highlighted as evidence of...
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Egyptian newspapers gave considerable space to the issue of the expected banning of the Islamic veil in France. Discussions of the issue reached their peak last Wednesday, December 17, when President Jacques Chirac called for a new law banning the wearing of head scarves for Muslim girls, of...
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More than twenty-five articles in the Arabic newspapers are dedicated to the issue of eliminating religious signs in French schools and its relationship to secularism. President Jacques Chirac?s speech on this issue has provoked contradictory reactions, not only inside the French community,...
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Different Egyptian authors ponder about how to build bridges between the
Islamic world and the West.
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British authorities deposed Egyptian fundamentalist Abū Hamza al-Masri from being the Imām of Finsbury Park
Mosque because he used his position to give political statements. The ?Sun? paper reported the news of his deposition
and asked its readers to call him on his cellular phone and ask him to...
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Scotland Yard raided the mosque where Egyptian fundamentalist Abū Hamza al-Masri preaches, after
receiving information from the French intelligence service about it. British officials stressed that such measures are
not against Islām. al-Masri led the Friday prayers in the street for two...