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'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman, spiritual leader of the al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah (Islamic Group), called his wife 'Ā'ishah from prison, where he is serving a life term after being convicted of conspiracy to blow up various New York City landmarks. She reported that he "lives in severe distress...and that his...
The Ministry of Information faces a quandary nowadays after the Administrative Court called off minister of Information Anas al-Fiqī’s decision to prevent three veiled anchorwomen to appear on the TV screen, and consequently, they were transferred to other posts such as preparing programs and...
Bow Street Court released Yasser Al-Serri, the director of the Islamic Media Observatory on bail. After he was released, Police from Scotland Yard detained him because he is accused of financing Ahmed Abdel-Rahman who is linked to the Qa´ida organization.
Three Muslim scholars issued a strange fatwa that was published in Al-Haqiqa [the Truth] newspaper. The three scholars object to the appointment of Dr. Youssef Boutros Ghali as Minister of Finance because, according to them, a non-Muslim must not preside over the Bayt Al-Mal [public treasury] of...
Islam has paid women their due, including participation in politics; the Islamic history is abundant with evidence in this regard. Hence the groundlessness of Western and American claims that Islam prohibits women to partake in the political arena. In this respect, Egyptian scholars stress that...
Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, who is supposed to be a leader in Al-Qa’eda organization and the son of the spiritual leader of the Egyptian Gama’at Al-Islamiya, was detained in Kabul. His family asked for his acquittal, claiming that he had no relation with Al-Qa’eda organization.
Scholars in Egypt are divided between rejecting and supporting the fatwa issued by the European Council for Fatwa and Research. The fatwa allows non-Muslim women who converted to Islam to stay with their still non-Muslim husbands. The Islamic Research Institute and the Egyptian Fatwa House...
Al-Arabi has learned that Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman amir [commander] and mufti of Islamic groups has agreed to issue a request to the Egyptian authorities declaring his wish to return to his homeland.
The US Embassy has issued three-week entry visas to Aisha Hassan and Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, the wife and brother of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, spiritual leader of the underground Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya. The blind cleric is serving a life sentence in a prison in Rochester, Minnesota, for plotting to bomb...
The U.S. embassy in Cairo has granted visas to relatives of an Egyptian Muslim spiritual leader to enable them to visit him in a U.S. jail, the London-based Arabic daily "Al Hayat" newspaper reported on September 3. Sheikh Omar, 61, was found guilty in October 1995 of seditious conspiracy and...

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